APSE Highways and Street Lighting

Advisory Group

Streamlining Services in Oxfordshire

Owen Jenkins

11th May 2016

Background/ Context

• 4500 km roads • Condition - Principal 3%, Non-Principal 5% • Major growth - large infrastructure projects • 22% spend - reactive maintenance • Bigger than average backlog? • Resurfacing return rate of 225 years? • Historical service priorities not always the norm

– engineering led?

Geographical Spread of Incentive

Fund Bands

Reasons to change?

BUT • 60,000+ potholes (reduced to 25,000 last year) • Cost per pothole higher than average • Higher than average claims pay-outs • Higher than average customer enquiries • £8.5 million savings for highways revenue • 60% highways spend reduction over period

OCC Highways Structure

Asset Management

£1.6m

Network Management

£2.1m

Contracts and Procurement

£0.6m

Major Infrastructure

£1.1m Strategy

Countryside Services £1.4m

Area Management

£1.5m

Delivery – Main Highways Contract and Major Schemes

£42m

Design £6.5m

Customer Service Centre

Corporate Centre

Governance

Delivery - other

contracts £13.5m

What is Systems Thinking?

https://youtu.be/OqEeIG8aPPk?t=90

If Russ Ackoff had given a TED talk

What should we/ do we do?

How many, how long, how often?

Service Service Service Service

Metrics Metrics Metrics Metrics

Supervision ratio…

Supervision Supervision Supervision Supervision

Admin …..

Admin Admin Admin Admin

Bottom Up Analysis

Management ratio….

Management Management Management Management

Planning/ Client type effort etc

Planning Planning Planning Planning

Service

Supp

ortin

g Ac

tivity

Po

licy

HELPING

Providing Information

Enabling Others

MAINTAINING

Reactive Maintenance

Routine Maintenance

CONSTRUCTING

New Improvements

Planned Replacements

MOVING

Network Management

Enforcement

How we think of services

Service Re-design

• Check what the customer actually wants/ values • Identify Priority Services • End to end ‘Lean System’ design • Ensure all the ‘Jigsaw’ pieces fit together • Restructure the operating model to deliver

Future Systems Architecture

Summary

• Take into account the ‘Whole System’! • Refocus on what the customer values! • Don’t focus too much on what we do – more on

what we will be doing! • Do more of the ‘right things’ less of the wrong things • Change the balance!

From

To

Deliv

ery

Summary Balance

Management &Supervision

Planning & Client Functions

Incr

ease

Reduce

Thank You

owen.jenkins@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Costs and benefits of LED Technology

Lorna Box APSE Principal Advisor – South/South West

“If a lamp needs replacing, it is always advantageous to change it to a Light Emitting Diode,

due to lower lifetime costs for maintenance and energy, which create savings and mitigate the cost of installing a new

lamp holder/lantern”

What factors might affect how we manage the replacement?

• Current condition of stock • Corporate focus on carbon savings • Cost savings targets and their

timeframe • Political Will • Impact on staff • Availability of capital funding • Effectiveness of Technology

• Supply Chain

• Opportunity for disposal

• Whether to include other external

lighting in the programme

• Context for reducing use overall - i.e.

dimming/switch off

Where to find out more?

• APSE Energy • Renewing the stock – a case study of LED investment in Hartlepool • Structural testing for lighting columns • Lessons from the highways investment programme at Cheshire East -

results, benefits and communications • Using ICT for effective asset management • Lumicom

Mark Johnson – Technical Sales Director

Regulations and developments in signs and technology – an ARTSM update

• Standards / Regulations update

– EN12966

– TSRGD

– TOPAS

• Technology Developments

Introduction

Introduction

www.vmstech.co.uk

Variable Message Signs (VMS) has been involved in the design, manufacture, installation and through life support of driver information systems since 1989.

We provide assistance and support as well as finished products and systems to Local Governments, Overseas Organisations, Network Rail and Airports as well

as specialist tunnel signs and over-height vehicle detection systems.

Introduction

Strategic

Urban

Rail

• Current Standard has been in place since 2005

• The latest version was published in December 2014 and will come into force during 2016

• Additional guidance sections

• Additional colour added

• Now covers temporary / portable VMS

• Products approvals under the original standard are still valid

European Standard for Variable Message Signs – EN 12966

• A significant update to TSRGD

• Published in April this year

• Large number of changes for fixed signs

• For variable signs :

– New schedule 16 added to bring together all regulations into one section

– Harmonised with the European standard EN12966

The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016 (TSRGD)

DfT guidance leaflet – TAL 1/15

• TOPAS has now replaced the Highways England process for Type Approval

• Existing type approvals must be registered with TOPAS

• TOPAS registration is mandated for all new products

TOPAS – Traffic Open Products and Specifications Group

• EN12966 now covers portable and temporary VMS

• TSRGD now specifically references paged messages: “When a variable message sign displays a sign or legend the variable message sign must display the whole of that message at the same time”

Portable / Temporary VMS

Extract from DfT TAL 1/15

Sign Evolution

Then… Now…

Technology Developments

4 x 15 Characters 4 x 15 Characters 100mm 100mm External Lanterns Virtual Lanterns 14.3mm LED Pitch 7.2mm LED Pitch Single Colour (Yellow) Dual Colour (Red/Yellow) 2,100 LEDs in Display 33,792 LEDs in Display

Display Technology

• LED’s

• Colours

• Resolution

• Size

• Weight

• Cost

Technology Developments

Further information

Technology Developments

www.vmstech.co.uk/optical

VMS - Applying technology in transportation

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