Roads
Innovation and better management of your roads network is achieved through the sharing of knowledge and information. Roads managers developed Yardstick for the industry as a benchmarking tool to collect, share and compare vital information to measure current performance and drive future improvements.
Yardstick provides tools to collect and compare management inputs. The Benchmarks questionnaire collects a wide range of information to identify roads asset provision, costs, service delivery and asset management best practice.
Benchmarks
- Identify, plan and improve your strategic goals and direction
- Undertake financial performance reviews and cost estimating
- Inform service delivery reviews
- Prepare feasibility studies using real, up to date figures from comparable organisations
- Lobby for additional resources
- Drive asset management implementation and improvements
- Compare locally, nationally and internationally
- Prioritise areas for improvement
- A network of roads managers learning and improving from shared information and common experience.
How it works
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On-line Tools
Benchmarks online questionnaire
- Secure questionnaire available online for self completion
- Add access for unlimited number of additional staff
- Display previous years answers and notes at the click of a button
- On site review by Yardstick auditors to ensure accuracy of information provided and credibility in the reported results
- Information collected identifies: Road network and asset provision; expenditure - matched with asset information to provide calculation of performance metrics; asset management, service delivery, and environmental best practice
- Organisation information to enable peer grouping to benchmark against similar organisation.s
Question guidelines
- Detailed guidelines defining how each question should be answered, linked to each specific question
- View online against each question
- Download pdf and print copy
Online reporting
- All results available online
- Detailed menus to quickly find the information you need
- Select your own peer group for more accurate comparison
The Roads Yardstick program is currently operating in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji.