Planning Applications

The Multi Year Planning and Scheduling Application (MYPS) supports the planning process in DPWH through storage and management of candidate Programs and Projects. It manages the Department’s Multi Year Program, the first year of which eventually gets approved as the Department’s Annual Infrastructure Program. This Program is then locked in MYPS, and can be exported to the Department’s Procurement and Contract Management applications.

MYPS is integrated with the Department’s other planning applications, including HDM-4 which performs economic analysis on the National Road Network, the Bridge Management System (BMS) which proposes maintenance works on the National Bridge Stock, and the Road and Bridge Information Application (RBIA).

MYPS is designed primarily for use by the Central Office’s Development Planning Division and Programming Division. However, the results of MYPS analysis are distributed to Regional and District Offices for review and confirmation as part of the annual planning cycle.

The purpose of the Road and Bridge Information Application is to make comprehensive, appropriately accurate and appropriately up-to-date road and bridge information available throughout all parts of DPWH.

Management of the data within the RBIA is therefore a very important responsibility as maintenance of the data quality is vital to the the various applications and users who access this information. For example, traffic, road accident, contract management and other applications will all be relying on the ability to link their information to the common location referencing system in the RBIA so that meaningful reports can be generated to assist with management decision making.

Statistics Division (SD) of Planning Service has been delegated the task of managing the RBIA and the details of their responsibilities are outlined in the [Department Order 54 of Series 2004].

The Pavement Management System (PMS) is a set of tools or methods th hat assist the decision maker in finding optimum strategies for providing and maintaining pavements in a serviceable condition over a given period of time. Using information available in the Road and Bridge Information Application (RBIA) and decision criteria PMS can produce cost-effective pavement maintenance or asset preservation work programs.

For this, PMS evaluates alternative strategies over a specified analysis period on the basis of predicted values of quantifiable pavement attributes subject to predetermined criteria and constraints (i.a. budget levels). All this will help to improve the efficiency of decision making, expand the scope etc.