A Strategic Framework for Urban Infrastructure Asset Management: Enhancing Longevity, Resilience, and Service Quality in City Assets

Urban infrastructure systems, such as roads, water systems, and public facilities, require effective management to ensure sustainability and service quality. Existing IAM practices often lack comprehensive approaches that integrate data-driven decision-making and alignment with city policies and budgets.

We developed a strategic framework for implementing infrastructure asset management (IAM) to enhance the maintenance, operation, and planning of urban infrastructure assets.

The proposed framework consists of ten stages, from preliminary reporting to issuing the infrastructure report card, integrating strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis for informed decision-making. A hypothetical case study is used to demonstrate its application, including the development of infrastructure GPA and an optimal budget allocation model.

The case study highlights the framework’s ability to develop infrastructure GPA for urban assets, allocate budgets optimally across city sectors based on condition assessments, and align IAM practices with city-specific needs and constraints.

This framework provides a practical, flexible solution for cities to adopt IAM practices, either in full or in select stages, enabling improved infrastructure performance and resource allocation.