Vegetation Asset Management System (VAMS) for Highways

Smart Vegetation Management to Reduce Costs and Congestion, Enhance Safety and Improve Operational Efficiencies

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Vegetation Asset Management System (VAMS)

Plot the location of your trees and vegetation on-site using mobile devices. Carry out surveys on the trees including Ash Dieback, BS5837, TEF3077 (Tree Hazard) and TEF3076 (Leaf Fall Risk Assessment).

The Challenge – Delivering Proactive Vegetation Management at Scale

National and Local Authority highway operators face enormous challenges in managing the 250,000-mile network of roads across the UK. They need to provide a reliable and safe road network, despite all the challenges that congestion, the weather, and road users present.
Vegetation and habitat management are central to providing that service. It presents a unique challenge, demanding real-time and proactive monitoring of vegetation issues, whether fallen or rotten trees, vegetation obstructing the smooth flow of traffic, obscuring vital road signs, damage to key infrastructure or invasive species impacting green estates.

Highway operators must find an efficient and effective way to capture, review and monitor vegetation assets and defects impacting urban trunk roads, motorways, suburban streets or other, more remote networks. These issues can disrupt public access, create congestion, overwhelm highway maintenance budgets, or cause costly insurance claims.

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The Solution – Pole Star’s Vegetation Asset Management Systems

That’s where Pole Star can help: leverage the digital capabilities of VAMS to capture, manage, transmit, and analyse data that highlights the inventory, condition, and any associated defects involving all vegetation types across a road network, as well as the lifecycle modelling associated with those and adjoining assets. Monitor whether to fix the urgent problems fast or incorporate them into regular maintenance schedules.
Use real-time data to prioritise repairs, optimise the use of potentially scarce resources and budgets, and refine long-term maintenance planning in an efficient, easy-to-use method to ensure the sustainability and proactive asset management of critical highway infrastructure.

Key Capabilities

Our Vegetation Asset Management System (VAMS) utilises hand held smart devices to capture, record, and report highway vegetation management assets, defects and condition scores. VAMS:

Provides real-time asset monitoring, ensuring engineers and senior managers can make informed, data-driven decisions at the optimal time.
Produces bespoke insights and data to deliver predictive maintenance, based on common issues and incidents across a highway network, to minimise disruption and costs.
Helps reduce the workload of complying with key legal and regulatory requirements, including the Highways Act 1980, LD 117 (Landscape Design), and GM 701 (Asset delivery and asset maintenance requirements).
Support BS5837 covering Tree surveys.
Pinpoints critical issues within 500mm, using a Geographic Information System (GIS) that leverages 3^rd party data, including Google Maps, to highlight the potential impact on services, whilst supporting site visit planning and preparation, maximising resources and productivity.
Is an easy-to-use, fast-to-deploy platform that utilises any smart device, including iOS and Android mobile and tablet devices.
It supports the ability to adapt and update forms and reports efficiently on-site and offline as new vegetation scenarios and issues develop.
Integrates with mobile networks to provide instant feedback and alerting processes to senior management, or collects information in offline mode to send the data, once network coverage is available.
Fully integrates into management dashboards to complement other alerting and monitoring systems to provide a holistic perspective of a highway network’s real-time condition.
Currently supports the classification and management of over 26,000 trees, 14,000 tree surveys, and 12,000 Ash Die Back assessments across the UK.

Our expert Asset Inspectors can also help you focus on the issues that matter, helping you keep your services running on time, safely and efficiently.

Vegetation Asset Management System (VAMS) for Highways