Development and Optimization of Level of Services for Municipal Infrastructure Asset Management in Ontario******

由于最近的省级立法和联邦倡议，安大略省的市政当局现在被要求并被诱使制定长期的基础设施资产管理计划。市政当局目前面临的一个主要挑战是确保这些计划真正能够执行，并且确实得到了执行。市政数据工程（MDW）是一个基于网络的资产管理业务解决方案，由Marmak代表安大略省良好道路协会（OGRA）提供支持和管理。当前版本的MDW能够以汇总方式确定市政当局所需的投资水平。然而，要真正实施，预算计划必须在战术和项目层面上很好地编织成一个基于证据的运营、维护、修复、重建战略。由于种种原因，许多城市在为战略、战术和业务规划建立证据方面处于不方便的地位。有一种严重的担忧是，许多为合规而准备的市政计划将成为架子上的白象。为了解决这些问题，Marmak希望与Ryerson基础设施创新研究所合作，制定一套指导方针，以便共同制定基于证据的、可实施的资产管理计划。作为合作的第一部分，这个Engage项目的重点是制定服务水平的指导方针，并优化资产管理计划中的目标LOS。****希望增强的MDW将帮助资金紧张的加拿大市政当局根据市政预算和服务水平目标实现实际、可执行和可防御的资本计划。它还将帮助社区控制他们的基础设施赤字，并通过更明智地使用维护资金来改善市政自给自足的前景。* * * *

Thanks to the recent provincial legislation and federal initiatives, Ontario municipalities now are both required and enticed to develop long-term infrastructure asset management plans. A major challenge that the municipalities are now facing is to ensure the plans are truly implementable and are indeed implemented. Municipal Data Works (MDW) is a web-based asset management business solution supported and managed by Marmak on behalf of Ontario Good Roads Association (OGRA). The current version of MDW is able to determine in an aggregate manner the investment level required by a municipality. However, to be truly implementable, the budget plan must be well weaved into an evidence-based operation, maintenance, rehabilitation, reconstruction strategy in both tactic and project levels. Due to various reasons, many municipalities find themselves in an inconvenient position of building evidences for the strategic, tactic and operational planning. There is a serious worry that many of the municipal plans prepared for compliance will become a white elephant over the shelf. To solve these issues, Marmak wishes to partner with Ryerson Institute for Infrastructure Innovation to develop a set of guidelines in order to collaboratively develop evidence-based, implementable asset management plans. As the first part of the collaboration, this Engage project is focused on the development of guidelines for level of services and the optimization of target LOS in an asset management plan. ****It is hoped that the enhanced MDW will help cash-strapped Canadian municipalities to achieve practical, implementable and defensible capital plans based on the municipality's budget, and service level objectives. It will also help communities to gain control over their infrastructure deficit, and improve prospects for municipal self-sufficiency by spending maintenance dollars more wisely. ****