→ Framework for Line-Asset Risk Evaluation
Risk evaluation of line-assets, such as sewers, roads, pipelines, and cables, involves assessing the likelihood and consequences of failures to prioritize maintenance, replacement or upgrades.
These assets often extend over large areas and are critical for public utilities, safety, health, economic prosperity and the environment.
Evaluation typically considers factors like asset condition, age, environmental exposure, usage levels and potential impacts of failure.
Techniques such as geographic information systems (GIS), predictive modeling, and risk matrices are often used to map vulnerabilities and guide decision-making, ensuring resource allocation aligns with minimizing operational disruptions and societal costs.
About
The development of a Framework for Line-Asset Risk Evaluation (FLARE) is a collaborative initiative designed to bring together research and educational institutions, municipalities, local governments, asset owners, and maintenance contractors. The goal is to develop and share a standardized, science-based approach for evaluating risks associated with line-assets such as sewers, roads, pipelines, and cables.
Benefits:
Key Objectives:
Systematic Asset Management Approach:
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Per line segment, FLARE integrates an organization's core values and the relative importance with the segment condition, to assess the risk of malfunction, in infrastruture such as pipelines, roads, or cables. It assesses consequences and probability to evaluate risk:
1. Define Core Values and Determine Consequences
2. Assess Current and Historical Condition to Define Probability
3. Combine Consequences and Probability for Risk Assessment
4. Visualization and Prioritization
This framework creates a structured, value-driven approach to assess the risk of malfunction of line-assets, using both direct data and proxies to address data gaps. It supports informed decision-making and proactive maintenance strategies to safeguard assets and uphold organizational commitments.
Line-Assets
Examples of the application of FLARE:
Research
FLARE is a non-profit, open-source research and development initiative. The research projects are carried out through cooperation between various partners, combining subject matter experts and university research. Funding is provided in the form of direct financing of the research or a combination with subsidies from various sources.
Framework for sewer risk evaluation with municipalites in Zeeland, NL
HZ University of Applied Sciences
HZ University of Applied Sciences