An Information Processing System for Patrimony Management
Résumé
The Escota Company, founded in 1956, is the leading operator of toll motorways in France. Due to its integration into the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, Escota is committed, as every motorway operator, to a sustainable development approach, including the social, economic and environmental aspects of its activities. Maintenance of the 459 km long motorway network does not simply concern the carriageway and its vicinity : Escota also manages more than 1,900 ha of open spaces ... Every year, specific initiatives are undertaken, or repeated, to include the motorway network in a sustainable development approach : prevention of fire risks, of water pollution risks, but also protection of roadside residents against noise or consideration of rare plant and animal species, management of acquired land along the motorway. Within this scope, the Escota Company thus aims at the formalization and improvement of the decisional process for preventive maintenance and patrimony management in a multi actors and multi criteria (MC) environment. These decisions concern upkeep, improvement and upgrading operations. According to available pieces of knowledge on the patrimony condition, operations are to be planned with regards to the technical but also to the conformity, security and financial criteria. The operations are related to operating domains such as structures, carriageways, roadsigns and road markings, buildings, prevention of fire risks, open spaces... Managing such a complex patrimony necessitates a dynamic Information Processing System (IPS) to facilitate the way decision-makers use their reasoning capabilities through adequate information processing procedure.