National Road Authorities (NRA) draw on a wide range of technologies and tools to support decisions on asset maintenance. Recently, there has been significant progress in developing sensing technologies for data collection and advanced techniques for data processing. While these technologies present an opportunity to improve asset management decisions, they also challenge NRAs as they seek to realise the benefits. The INFRACOMS project, commissioned by Conference of European Directors of Roads (CEDR), aims to understand current and emerging remote asset condition monitoring and data collection techniques to enable European NRAs to implement such technologies and approaches as standard practice. The project focuses on carriageways and bridges. INFRACOMS has developed an openly accessible Technology Database that identifies and provides an appraisal of the technical capability of current and emerging remote monitoring technologies showing potential to fill a previously identified gap in the bridge or carriageways management processes. A flexible, sustainable, and future-proofed appraisal toolkit is developed, enabling NRAs to continue to appraise emerging technologies and add them to the database. INFRACOMS has also considered the wider requirements that must be met to implement new technologies as business as usual. A self-assessment toolkit has been developed that enables NRAs to establish the general environment for adopting innovation within their organisations. A technology implementation framework has been produced that assists in the development of roadmaps to adapt and implement specific gap-filling technologies. With these tools the NRAs should be better equipped to take on the challenge of innovation and realise the benefits of new technologies.

Monitoring Data; Digitalisation; Sustainability; Asset Maintenance Management; Asset Condition Data; New Technologies