1. Socio economic benefits of highways maintenance
Geoff Allister OBE
Executive Director
Highways Term Maintenance Association

2. Current approach to asset management HTMA’s emerging thinking
Social value
Provoke debate
Questions to delegates .

3. Trade association representing contractors and consultants
Members maintain approximately 200,000 km of UK roads
Industry employs around 30,000 people . Annual value of works is over £3.6 billion
Extensive delivery experience .

4. Delivery Challenges Funding People and skills Public expectations
Maintenance priority
Capital/revenue disconnect
Forward commitment
People and skills
Sector competition
Capacity and capability
Brexit
Public expectations
Better quality roads
Smoother journeys
Value for money

5. Asset Management Highway network – important social and economic role
Political/public expectation of
Transparency
Accountability
Efficiency
Long term view
Strategic approach v firefighting
Best use of public money
Answer the “what if” questions
Establish priorities
Forecast outcomes

6. Highways Infrastructure Asset Management
Key recommendations
Asset management framework
Lifecycle plans
Rolling 3 to 5 year programmes
Leadership and commitment
Competencies and training
Benchmarking

7. The HTMA approach Promoting the socio economic arguments
Invest to Save
Balance financial benefits with customer expectations
Importance of performance measurement
HTMA knowledge and experience
To HMEP
To clients
Collaborative delivery brings benefits to all

8. However !! Highways has difficulty competing with
Education
Social care
Health
Service taken for granted
Impact of unexpected events
Economic and social disruption
Winter resilience review 2010
HTMA promotes
Step change in maintenance priority
Creation of formal assessment of social and economic benefits of maintenance benefits

9. Investment benefits Socio Economic Benefits: Safer roads
Reduced disruption
Less pollution
Less noise
Enhanced amenity
Improved resilience
Local economies

10. Positive social outcomes
Reducing night crime
Improving accessibility to local amenities
Creating new training and employment opportunities
Boosting SMEs and local economies
Improved physical well being – more walking and cycling

11. What is Social Value? Social Value Social Environmental Economic
All Encompassing Term
Social, economic and environmental impacts created from activities
By understanding the social value created, we can better understand the overall impact of our activities – not just from a financial perspective – and use it to inform and add value in every sense.

12. Social Return on Investment
SROI is a framework based on social generally accepted accounting principles (SGAAP) that can be used to help manage and understand the social, economic and environmental outcomes created by your activity or organisation. Social Value UK
Attributes monetary value to represent social, environmental and economic outcomes
Demonstrates the ‘change’ as a result of the activity
Two types: Forecast and Evaluative
SROI is an approach to understanding and managing the value of the social, economic and environmental outcomes created by an activity or an organisation. It is based on a set of principles that are applied within a framework.
SROI seeks to include the values of people that are often excluded from markets in the same terms as used in markets, that is money, in order to give people a voice in resource allocation decisions. SROI is a framework to structure thinking and understanding.
Evaluates financial, social and environmental impact.
Attributing a monetary value for each outcome.
SROI analysis can be either forecast to predict the social value of a project or evaluative, using evidenced based outcomes to measure the social value delivered.

13. Tell the story What is the story? Stakeholder engagement
Asset management x
Improving peoples’ lives √
Stakeholder engagement
Who with?
Usual suspects?
Who by?
Who sponsors highways?

14. Questions?
Measurement of good highway maintenance has been largely focussed around condition and response times. Should the impact on socio-economic factors be measured?

15. Questions?
Does local authority socio-economic policy need to be integrated with highway authorities’ maintenance policy and how?

16. Questions?
Well-Managed Highway Infrastructure (UKRLG) considers resilience factors and “place” factors but not socio-economic factors. Should community benefit be included?

17. HTMA Executive Director
Thank You
Geoff Allister OBE
HTMA Executive Director