Asset Management Plan - Newcastle City Council

Forward Works Programme9.0 Forward Works ProgrammeNewcastle City Council are preparing a 10-year forward works programme foreach asset grouping based on the evaluation and ranking of alternativeimprovement projects and maintenance treatments, and including all cyclicroutine maintenance functions. These individual programmes will subsequentlybe amalgamated to form an Integrated Forward Works Programme (IWP), whichwill include all assets and services and input from other organisations who mayhave an interest in or an affect on the management of the highway network.The IWP will integrate the works required from all of the funding streams andinitiatives, and by bringing all of the proposed works on the network into onelocation enable co-ordination of works to take place. It will be able to assist withboth short-term road space/traffic management issues and longer term planning.With good quality condition data available for analysis it will be possible to predictthe likely future maintenance schemes and their locations. The timing of otherworks can then be reviewed to ensure situations don’t arise where new works aredestroyed by subsequent tasks.This long-term programme will be built on projections using currently held dataand knowledge, as such there will be significant limitations on the reliability of theprojections. The reliability of projections regarding the precise nature and locationof the works for the later years of the programme will be relatively low, howeveran aggregation of the anticipated needs is a valid method of predicting futurefunding requirements.The anticipated levels of confidence in the long-term programme are detailedbelow:Table 9.1 Confidence Levels in Forward Works ProgrammeYear(s) Description Confidence Level1 Work is in Progress 100%2 Firm Recommendation 95%3-5 Reasonable Assessment 75%6-10 Informed Assessment 50%The latter years of the forward works programme will essentially be used as aplanning tool.51