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Socio economic benefits of highways maintenance Geoff Allister OBE Executive Director

Socio economic benefits of highways maintenance Geoff Allister OBE Executive Director Highways Term Maintenance Association. Current approach to asset management HTMA’s emerging thinking Social value Provoke debate Questions to delegates.

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Socio economic benefits of highways maintenance Geoff Allister OBE Executive Director

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  1. Socio economic benefits of highways maintenance Geoff Allister OBE Executive Director Highways Term Maintenance Association

  2. Current approach to asset management • HTMA’s emerging thinking • Social value • Provoke debate • Questions to delegates

  3. Trade association representing contractors and consultants • Members maintain approximately 200,000 km of UK roads • Industry employs around 30,000 people . Annual value of works is over £3.6 billion • Extensive delivery experience

  4. Delivery Challenges • Funding • Maintenance priority • Capital/revenue disconnect • Forward commitment • People and skills • Sector competition • Capacity and capability • Brexit • Public expectations • Better quality roads • Smoother journeys • Value for money

  5. Asset Management • Highway network – important social and economic role • Political/public expectation of • Transparency • Accountability • Efficiency • Long term view • Strategic approach v firefighting • Best use of public money • Answer the “what if” questions • Establish priorities • Forecast outcomes

  6. HighwaysInfrastructure Asset Management • Key recommendations • Asset management framework • Lifecycle plans • Rolling 3 to 5 year programmes • Leadership and commitment • Competencies and training • Benchmarking

  7. The HTMA approach • Promoting the socio economic arguments • Invest to Save • Balance financial benefits with customer expectations • Importance of performance measurement • HTMA knowledge and experience • To HMEP • To clients • Collaborative delivery brings benefits to all

  8. However !! • Highways has difficulty competing with • Education • Social care • Health • Service taken for granted • Impact of unexpected events • Economic and social disruption • Winter resilience review 2010 • HTMA promotes • Step change in maintenance priority • Creation of formal assessment of social and economic benefits of maintenance benefits

  9. Investment benefits • Socio Economic Benefits: • Safer roads • Reduced disruption • Less pollution • Less noise • Enhanced amenity • Improved resilience • Local economies

  10. Positive social outcomes Reducing night crime Improving accessibility to local amenities Creating new training and employment opportunities Boosting SMEs and local economies Improved physical well being – more walking and cycling

  11. What is Social Value?

  12. Social Return on Investment • Attributes monetary value to represent social, environmental and economic outcomes • Demonstrates the ‘change’ as a result of the activity • Two types: Forecast and Evaluative SROI is a framework based on social generally accepted accounting principles (SGAAP) that can be used to help manage and understand the social, economic and environmental outcomes created by your activity or organisation. Social Value UK

  13. Tell the story • What is the story? • Asset management x • Improving peoples’ lives √ • Stakeholder engagement • Who with? • Usual suspects? • Who by? • Who sponsors highways?

  14. Questions? Measurement of good highway maintenance has been largely focussed around condition and response times. Should the impact on socio-economic factors be measured?

  15. Questions? Does local authority socio-economic policy need to be integrated with highway authorities’ maintenance policy and how?

  16. Questions? Well-Managed Highway Infrastructure (UKRLG) considers resilience factors and “place” factors but not socio-economic factors. Should community benefit be included?

  17. Thank You Geoff Allister OBE HTMA Executive Director www.htma.info

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