Since RATA was established, as a Centre of Excellence to achieve best practice in road asset management, we’ve expanded our capabilities to meet the needs of our partner councils.
Our work programme has become more inclusive across roading and consists of the following main elements:
Councils have access to resourcing and specialist skills to improve their data quality for forward works programming.
Quarterly reporting for transport and 3 waters asset data quality
Council reporting on data quality in alignment with the REG competency framework.
Regional benchmarking of asset performance across Councils to determine opportunities for improvement.
Quarterly Roading Forums for knowledge sharing, networking and new initiatives.
The RATA Document Store is a library of past and current knowledge which is available to participating council members.
A quarterly forum for council roading and asset managers. Forum Purpose: to take the opportunity to get together to review and share what has gone well, any lessons learnt, and any innovations/trials you’ve done that the wider team would benefit from hearing about.
Collaborative contracts for the collection of road asset management data to achieve better value for money for Councils’ data collection activities as well as consistent data quality and methods of collection. Current contracts include the collection of Falling Weight Deflectometer data & High Speed Data.
Collaborative contracts for the collection of road asset management data to achieve better value for money for Councils’ data collection activities as well as consistent data quality and methods of collection. Current contracts include the collection of High Speed Data, and Traffic Counting & Visual Pavement Inspections.
RATA manages (on behalf of nine councils) the annual bridge and structural inspection programmes, and associated asset management and long-term planning advice for these councils.
Improved management and coordination of temporary traffic management by understanding issues and opportunities for improvement, thereby reducing pressure on TMCs across the region.
Standardised approach to management of stock underpasses leading to consistency in fees, transparency of process, and certainty for landowners.
Improved data collection activities by providing consistent methodologies, better understanding of asset performance through consistent measures, value for money for councils through consolidated procurement.
This pilot is being run in partnership with Otorohanga DC and IDS.
Consistent asset valuation methodologies for capitalisation, insurance and depreciation. A draft template is being tested.
A pilot project using the AVUS phone app to capture newly installed underground services for as-builts.
The report on this project is available for those with access, to the RATA Document Store HERE.
