I have a small story in the latest issue of Local Transport Today (LTT) about renewals work by National Highways and Network Rail, which has a particular salience given the amount that the roads operator is due to spend on renewals in the next five years.
You can read the whole piece for free on LTT’s sister website, TransportXtra, but here is the gist of it:
Both National Highways and Network Rail are falling short of optimal performance in their management of large infrastructure renewals, according to a review carried for the Office of Rail and Road (ORR).
It comes as the national roads operator begins work on its third five-year Road Investment Strategy (RIS 3), with a record spend of £8.4bn on renewals, outstripping spending on enhancements for the first time.
If you are interested in maturity models and the difference between “managing” and “optimal”, the story has more detail. I hope I have explained it coherently.
The interesting twist in the story is that:
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