27 October - 5 November 2026
Total duration: 12 hours (4 x 3-hour classes)
Road agencies worldwide are under growing pressure to do more with constrained budgets while maintaining safer, more reliable and climate-resilient road networks. At the same time, advances in data collection, predictive analysis, asset monitoring and digitalisation are transforming how infrastructure condition, risk and performance can be managed.
This course explores how modern road agencies are evolving from reactive maintenance approaches toward smarter, performance-driven asset management strategies. Combining core asset management principles with emerging practices in predictive maintenance, risk-based interventions and digital tools, the course provides participants with practical frameworks for making better investment and maintenance decisions across diverse road networks.
Drawing on international case studies and operational experience from both mature and developing road systems, the course will examine how agencies can define service levels, assess asset condition, prioritise competing needs, and integrate safety, resilience and operational performance considerations into long-term infrastructure stewardship.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the institutional, governance and legal accountability frameworks that influence road asset management decision-making and maintenance responsibilities
- Define levels of service and performance objectives for different classes of road networks
- Apply core road asset management principles to support long-term network performance
- Understand how condition assessment, risk and lifecycle analysis inform maintenance priorities
- Use performance indicators and multi-criteria approaches to support investment decisions
- Explain how predictive analysis and data-driven tools are changing asset management practice
- Identify where digital twins, monitoring systems and emerging technologies can add operational value
- Develop risk-based intervention strategies that integrate safety, resilience and operational considerations
- Recognise common institutional and implementation challenges affecting road asset management programmes
Target Audience
This course is designed for intermediate-level professionals involved in the planning, maintenance, operation and management of road infrastructure assets who are seeking to modernise asset management practices and improve long-term network performance.
It is particularly relevant for:
- Road agency managers and engineers responsible for maintenance and asset performance
- Asset management and pavement management professionals
- Infrastructure planners and investment decision-makers
- MDB and donor organisation specialists involved in transport infrastructure programmes
- Consultants and technical advisors supporting road maintenance and rehabilitation strategies
- Professionals involved in resilience, network operations, road safety or infrastructure digitalisation initiatives
Course Structure
Date: Tuesday 27 October 2026, 14:00-17:15 CET
Understand how modern asset management frameworks support safer, more reliable and resilient road networks.
Key topics:
- Why Asset Management is evolving
- International frameworks & maturity models
- Defining service levels for different classes of roads
- Linking asset performance to user expectations and network function
- Lifecycle thinking and whole-life cost considerations
- Introduction to RAMS principles in road infrastructure
- Asset governance and institutional responsibilities
- Why safety, resilience and operational performance increasingly influence asset management decisions
- Common implementation challenges in low-capacity environments
Date: Thursday, 29 October 2026, 14:00-17:15 CET
How agencies assess infrastructure condition, identify critical risks, and prioritise interventions.
Key topics:
- Condition assessment fundamentals for road infrastructure assets
- Asset inventories, inspections and monitoring approaches
- Understanding deterioration mechanisms and failure risks
- Selecting meaningful performance indicators
- Integrating safety and climate vulnerability into asset assessments
- Risk-based approaches to maintenance prioritisation
- Multi-criteria analysis for competing investment needs
- Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and performance-based maintenance approaches
- Using operational and condition data to support better decisions
- Managing uncertainty and incomplete data
Date: Tuesday, 3 November 2026, 14:00-17:15 CET
From Reactive Maintenance to Smarter Intervention Strategies
Key topics:
- Transitioning from reactive to predictive asset management
- Forecasting deterioration and intervention timing
- Data-driven maintenance planning and optimisation
- Decision-support tools and asset management systems
- Risk-based intervention strategies and scenario planning
- Introduction to digital twins and infrastructure modelling concepts
- Integrating monitoring technologies, sensors and operational data
- Using predictive analysis to support resilience and lifecycle planning
- Understanding where digitalisation creates operational value
Date: Thursday, 5 November 2026, 14:00-17:15 CET
Delivering Governance, Funding and Long-Term Infrastructure Stewardship
Key topics:
- Embedding asset management into organisational culture and governance
- Aligning technical priorities with funding realities
- Procurement and delivery models supporting long-term performance
- Integrating maintenance, safety and resilience programmes
- Performance-Based Contracts (PBCs) and outcome-oriented maintenance delivery
- Building investment cases for maintenance and rehabilitation
- Communicating infrastructure risks and funding needs to decision-makers
- Scaling modern asset management approaches in LMICs
- Common implementation pitfalls and institutional barriers
- Future trends in infrastructure stewardship and intelligent asset management
Lead Instructor
Scott Bloxsom
CEO and Co-owner and Founder of Essency
Scott is a Chartered Professional Engineer with over 30 years of experience in a wide range of highway engineering and management projects.
He has worked extensively with both public and private sector clients in Australia, United Kingdom, the Middle East, United States, Eastern & Southern Africa and Europe advising and implementing Best Practice asset management principles, processes and systems. He also specialises in Performance Based Contract development, implementation and training.
Scott’s recent years have been spent providing strategic asset management consultancy services to clients seeking greater return and value from their infrastructure assets, and has embraced the ISO55000 series asset management standards and to guide industry Best Practice. As an accredited Certified Asset Management Assessor (CAMA) Scott brings a strategic, business and operational view to infrastructure management organisations requiring better asset performance.
Associate Instructors
Satyanarayan Purohit
Vice President, Infrastructure Operations, Concessions & Asset Management, Dilip Buildcon Ltd.
Satyanarayan Purohit is a highway asset management and operations leader with over 25 years of experience in the development, delivery, operations and lifecycle management of transportation infrastructure across India. He has led highway asset portfolios covering more than 15,000 lane-km and multidisciplinary teams of over 3,000 professionals.
His expertise spans highway operations and maintenance, lifecycle asset management, PPP/HAM/BOT projects, Al-enabled predictive maintenance, digital transformation, road safety, resilient infrastructure and corridor-led development.
He is a regular speaker at international conferences and CXO forums, sharing practical insights on technology-enabled infrastructure asset management, sustainable transportation and lifecycle value creation.
Mr. Purohit is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India) (FIE), a Life Member of the Indian Roads Congress (IRC), a Member of the International Road Federation (IRF), a Member of the IRF Global Traffic Management Committee, an Associate Member of the Institute of Asset Management (IAM), UK and a Member of the FICCI Committee on Roads & Highways.
He is passionate about advancing practical, data-driven approaches that enhance the performance, safety, resilience and long-term value of transportation assets.
Stephen Smyth
Senior Manager, Pavement Asset Management & Winter Services, Transport Infrastructure Ireland|
Stephen, a Fellow of Engineers Ireland, holds a Civil Engineering degree (1996) and a Master’s in Operations Management (2013). With over 30 years’ experience, he has worked across road construction, maintenance, operations, asset management and winter resilience. He began as a Resident Engineer before joining the National Roads Authority in 2002, becoming Engineering Inspector in 2005. Since 2016, he has served as Senior Manager in Transport Infrastructure Ireland’s Network Management Directorate, overseeing national road and greenway asset management, climate adaptation, resilience and winter services.
Enrolment Fees
- Individual Registrations: 1100 CHF
- Group Registration (min. 3): 850 CHF
- IRF Members: 850 CHF
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