VENTIA ENHANCES SMART ASSET MANAGEMENT WITH
ASSET VISION
HOW VENTIA IS USING ASSET VISION’S INTELLIGENT PLATFORM TO ENHANCE THE MANAGEMENT OF ROAD ASSETS FOR ITS AUSTRALIAN TRANSPORT CLIENTS. ROADS & INFRASTRUCTURE REPORTS.
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s a provider of essential infrastructure services, Ventia’s Transport teams are often first on the ground during natural disasters helping to keep roads, tunnels and airports open and operating safely. When recent floods hit southern Queensland, multiple road sections were impacted and required urgent repairs. Luckily, for the Ventia team of inspectors and site crew responsible for managing and inspecting a large road network in South East Queensland, they had an intelligent smart system in place to help them act quickly. The Ventia team worked in shifts to provide support 24/7 to ensure more than 3,000 lane kilometres across the south coast road network was 16
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made safe for all road users. Ventia has supported one of its major Transport clients in South East Queensland since 2013, providing asset management services, road pavement and drainage maintenance activities, as well as a significant program of road rehabilitation across Queensland’s southeast coast state and national road network. The network covers three local government areas, namely the City of Gold Coast, the City of Logan and the Scenic Rim Regional Council. In 2020, the Ventia team was looking for innovations that would enhance its road maintenance operations. That’s when the team became aware of Asset Vision. Andrew Spence, Ventia’s Program Manager for Queensland Transport
South Coast says the Australian platform caught his eye early in the contract. “We came across Asset Vision, which had been adopted by the Victorian Department of Transport years ago, and more recently by Transport for NSW,” says Spence. “Ventia differentiates through our client focus, innovation and commitment to sustainability. We always challenge ourselves to improve and deliver better outcomes and Asset Vision was aligned to this,” Spence adds. Asset Vision’s Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, the brainchild of Co-Founder and CEO Damian Smith, was developed and launched in 2010 to help road maintenance contractors across Australia digitise their field works and move away
