International Seminar on Implementation of Technical Assistance for

Road Asset Management in Vietnam

Perspective of Road Asset

Management in Asian Countries

Prof. Dr. Kiyoshi Kobayashi

Dean of Graduate School of Management
Professor of Graduate School of Engineering
Kyoto University, Japan

Hanoi, 31st , May, 2010

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Kyoto University
 Content

I. Infrastructure asset management in a dynamic society

II. Current status of asset management in Asian countries

III. Toward development of a systemic asset management system

IV. Benchmarking in Pavement System

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 Asset management in a dynamic
society

“Infrastructure is vital for economic activity and

society development”.
Definition of asset management in a dynamic society

“The optimal allocation of the scare budget

between the new arrangement of infrastructure
and rehabilitation/maintenance of the existing
infrastructure to maximize the value of the stock of
infrastructure and to realize the maximum
outcomes for the citizens”.

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 What if our system collapse under
disasters?

Hanshin expressway (Kobe earthquake 1995)

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 What if our system collapse under
disasters?

 橋は１９６７年に完成。川から高さ約２０メートルで、道路は片側４車
線で計８車線。１日に約２０万台の通行量があり、９カ月前から補修工
事を行っていたという。地元当局は詳しい原因を調べている。

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 What if our system collapse under poor
management?

 Broken down accident driven by poor maintenance

　（ 1983 、 Connecticut , USA ）
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What if our system collapse under poor
management?

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 What if our system getting worse under
disasters?
Hanoi in great flood 2008

Vietnamese road system face great

deterioration due to natural disasters and
limited performance for maintenance activities

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 What if our system getting worse in case
of poor construction and extreme weather?

Surface of Thang Long bridge after 3 months of construction (2010)

Thang Long bridge connect Noi Bai Airport and Hanoi city

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What if our system does not in a good
fashion?

• Economical lost
• Negative environmental impact
Loss of life (annually, average 10000 people loss their life on the road)

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A systemic asset management is a MUST

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We need to comprehend our system in a life cycle
view

We are about here

Design & Operation phase
Construction
Monitoring

Maintenance Future is
Uncertainty

Repair

Did we consider Do we have a

long-term What, When, and
good system for How to allocate
future
maintenance monitoring and proper resources
systematically? deterioration to sustain our
forecasting? system?

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 We need to comprehend our system in a life cycle
view

Allocating budget and repair time based on priority and

optimization approach
Service level

Determine service level

Future risk can be reduced through systemic asset management

t0 t1 t2

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 Asian Perspectives – A short
summary
Japan

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 Asian Perspectives – A short
summary
Japan

Asset management system in Japan has

experienced over the past recent decades

Japanese PMS with rich monitoring data, high-speed

inspection cars, and a good database system

We build on stochastic approach based on Markov

Model

Toward web-based PMS and GIS integration

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 Asian Perspectives – A short
summary
Korean

Results from applying HDM-4 are with too much noise, which totally
depending on calibration with deterministic hazard function

Korean new strategy

Korean Pavement Management System, following

probabilistic approach with application of Markov
chain model

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 Asian Perspectives – A short
summary
Vietnam 4D
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4a
10 2 3
Northeast region
1B
279 37
379 1
37
21 3
Northwest 32 18

region
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Hanoi

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North Center
region

Asphalt concrete

Bituminous surface Hue

treatment 16

Bituminous penetrated 14

macadam
14E
South Center
HCM
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region
Central
highlands
25

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27

13

1K 20

HCMC 56

91 30
50 South region
80 (Mekong delta and
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southeast coast)

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 Asian Perspectives – A short
summary
Vietnam

Do you have a PMS system national wide?

HDM-4
WHICH ONE?
RoSy System, RoadNAm

Both of them do not function well?

You have enough resource to build your own PMS

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 A comparative views on average
deterioration
Condition states
1

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Japan

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Vietnam
South Korean ???
We still do not know
4
years
5
0 10 20 30 40

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 We must think how important AM is

• Putting asset management in historical and

technical context
• Understanding the difficulties and challenges
governmental authorities face in implementing
AM programs
• Developing a systemic, integrated approach to
AM

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 Managerial Framework in PMS

Plan
Do
Budget allocation Plan
Do
R/M
See strategies Plan

See R/M activities

See Do

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 Concept of Benchmarking

Assessment of strengths and weakness Assessment of strengths and

of national AM system weakness of foreign AM systems

Analyze to isolate best practices and

competitive gap

Incorporate best practices by copying,

modifying/adapting and improving

Gain best practices in design, construction and maintenance. Thus, facilitate

the establishment of national standards and guidelines

The search for the best, not just a comparison

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 Benchmarking flowchart

Data Collection Definition

Benchmarking
Classification Objective

Hazard Model

LCC model

Best Practices

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 Stewardship

The willingness 　 to be accountable for

the well-being of the larger organization
by operating in service, rather than in
control, of those around us.
(Peter Block)

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 3 pillars of AM

integrity

responsibility accountability

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The End.

Thank you for your attention!

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