Coordinating maintenance planning under uncertainty

In maintenance of (public) infrastructures, such as the national highway network, an asset manager is responsible for high network quality and throughput, while limiting expenses to a minimum. The maintenance activities, however, are often performed by commercial contractors, mainly driven by profit. Using a network-based payment mechanism we align the objectives of both stakeholders. Nonetheless, this greatly increases the complexity of planning maintenance activities, rendering it very difficult for human planners to develop (near-)optimal maintenance plans. We demonstrate a support tool that facilitates multiagent planning for contractors so that they can coordinate their activities with other contractors in the network. This tool is initially intended as a serious game to create awareness and support amongst practitioners concerning this novel network-based coordination. In later stages we foresee great potential in the use of our tool as part of future dynamic contracting procedures.