Chair: Gerardo FLINTSCH, Chair of PIARC TC 3.3, USA

The section presents a series of approaches and case studies for incorporating resilience into the Asset Management business processes.  Resilience is becoming a key consideration in Asset Management as agencies strive to identify risk associated with extreme events and develop robust, data-driven, risk-based decision support frameworks and tools for managing the road infrastructure. The session presents (1) a methodologies for assessing the benefits of possible maintenance activities in terms of discounted risk reduction illustrated with a case study in the Santarem region of Portugal, (2) the use of data driven decision making, asset condition assessment, and identification of vulnerabilities and resilience implementation actions in Canada, and (3) the plans to establish a modern, effective and sustainable road Asset Management framework that incorporates resilience in Poland.