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Process for Setting Intervention Criteria and Allocating Budgets: Process Description and Application
  • Publication no: AP-T69-06
  • ISBN: 1 921139 66 8
  • Published: 13 September 2006
This report provides descriptions of processes for setting maintenance intervention criteria and allocating budgets. Due to the multi-objective nature of road asset management activities, the decision process including setting maintenance intervention criteria requires a multi-objective consideration that addresses the competing requirements of the different objectives. In this report two multi-objective methods for ranking/setting intervention criteria are described. The first is based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) that allows trade-off between the competing objectives and considers objectives with different units. The second method is based on life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) and considers only objectives expressed in monetary terms.
  • AP-T69/06 Process for Setting Intervention Criteria and Allocating Budgets: Process Description and Application
  • EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
  • CONTENTS
  • TABLES
  • FIGURES
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
    • 1.1. Process for maintenance program development
  • 2. OVERVIEW OF ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS
    • 2.1. Principles and application of AHP
      • 2.1.1. Decomposition
      • 2.1.2. Prioritisation (paired comparisons of criteria and alternatives)
      • 2.1.3. Synthesis
      • 2.1.4. Sensitivity analysis
      • 2.1.5. Methods for ranking alternatives in AHP
      • 2.1.6. Group judgements
    • 2.2. Example: Application of AHP
      • 2.2.1. Structuring a decision hierarchy
      • 2.2.2. Determining priorities (weights) of the criteria
      • 2.2.3. Setting priorities (scores) for the alternatives
      • 2.2.4. Synthesis of relative priorities
    • 2.3. Checking consistency of judgements
      • 2.3.1. Improving the consistency of judgements
    • 2.4. Summary of AHP steps
  • 3. SETTING MAINTENANCE INTERVENTION CRITERIA
    • 3.1. Providing for equity
    • 3.2. Setting intervention criteria using AHP
      • 3.2.1. Level of service concept
      • 3.2.2. AHP decision hierarchy for setting intervention criteria
      • 3.2.3. Ranking intervention criteria using AHP
    • 3.3. Determining costs of options
  • 4. PROCESS FOR ALLOCATING BUDGETS
    • 4.1. Framework for resource allocation
    • 4.2. AHP resource allocation model
    • 4.3. Application of the resource allocation process
      • 4.3.1. Setting priorities and budget allocations for asset groups
      • 4.3.2. Optimisation and trade-off analysis
    • 4.4. Trading-off maintenance intervention criteria and communityconsultation
  • 5. SUMMARY
  • REFERENCES
  • APPENDIX A SETTING INTERVENTION CRITERIA USINGECONOMIC ANALYSIS
  • APPENDIX B WORKED EXAMPLES FOR SETTINGINTERVENTION CRITERIA USINGQUANTITATIVE PERFORMANCE MEASURES
  • APPENDIX C SETTING INTERVENTION CRITERIA USINGQUALITATIVE PERFORMANCE MEASURES
  • APPENDIX D ALLOCATING BUDGET AMONG ASSETGROUPS (CONSTRAINED ANDUNCONSTRAINED)
  • APPENDIX E LEVEL OF SERVICE TRADE-OFF ACROSSDIFFERENT ASSET TYPES TO MEET ABUDGET LIMIT AND BUDGET ALLOCATIONS(CONSTRAINED BUDGET)
  • APPENDIX F GUIDE TO SELECTION OF ASSESSMENTCRITERIA AND PERFORMANCE MEASURES
  • APPENDIX G GUIDE TO CURRENT AND MINIMUMINTERVENTION CRITERIA
  • APPENDIX H GUIDE TO SELECTION OF CONDITIONPARAMETERS FOR TRADE-OFF ANALYSIS
  • INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
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