RIMS Forum - 20 March 2013 Ranjith de Silva (Auckland Transport, and Royce Greaves - Opus

1. Auckland Transport
Database Operation Manual
(ATDOM)
Presented By:
Ranjith De Silva(AT) and Royce Greaves (Opus)

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AUCKLAND TRANSPORT: BACKGROUND
Auckland Council established by combining seven
LGOs: 1st Nov’2010
• Rodney District Council
• North Shore City Council
• Auckland City Council
• Manukau City Council
• Waitakere City Council
• Papakura District Council
• Franklin City Council
• (Auckland Regional Council)

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Auckland Transport RAMM Database
• RAMM system was historically primary road asset
inventory for all these council owned and
maintained assets
• Seven RAMM databases were merged to form
single AT database
• RAMM 2008, migrate to RAMM 2011 in Mar’2013

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AT Database Operation Manual (ATDOM)
Version 1 - March 2013
Why?
• to maintain consistency cross the AKL region for data
collection, entry and management
How?
• provides policies/ procedures for data integrity/
consistency overtime, independent of supplier.
• procedures for inventory data collection, validation
and day to day collection (maint. and construction)
• specifies fields and tables to be populated

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ATDOM – Phase 1: addresses 10 key tables
• Carriageway (Asset)
• Carriageway Surfacing (Asset)
• Footpath (Asset)
• Pavement Structure (Asset)
• Forward Work Programme (Asset Maintenance)
• Maintenance Cost (Asset Maintenance)

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• Road Names (Information)
• Treatment Length (Information)
• Traffic (Asset Demand)
• Loading (Asset Demand)

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Three main areas addressed:
• What?
• What is collected?
• Why?
• Why is it collected
• How?
• How is it collected

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What is collected?
• Based on a data dictionary
• Similar to Appendix 3 Asset Register of SHDOM
• Defines compulsory and optional fields
• Designed to ensures consistency in asset register

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Why is it collected?
• Gives context of the need to collect data
• Assists with “buy in” of collectors
• Outlines responsibilities

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How is it collected?
• Step by step instructions on how to collect each
field in each table
• Complete with diagrams, conventions, etc
• Will improve consistency, completeness and quality
• Needs to be supported by training and accreditation

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How is it collected? (cont’d)
• Includes LRMS section

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Where to from here?
• Other tables to be included in Phase 2
• Web based document to make searching easy
• U[grade to RAMM 2011
• Training and certification as per NZTA

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Acknowledgements
• OPUS assisted to develop ATDOM Version 1
• BECA reviewed first draft
• NZTA - Michaela McMinn for the their assistance in
using some material from NZTA.

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More Information …….. Ranjith de Silva
Ranjith.desilva@aucklandtransport.govt.nz

16. Thank you.