Asset Management Inventory and Data Collection


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An efficient and accurate inventory of a state highway agency's assets, along with the means to assess the condition of those assets and model their performance, is critical to enabling an agency to make informed investment decisions in a Transportation Asset Management (TAM) environment. Today, new technologies provide fast and improved ways to gather, process, and analyze data. The key is to identify and gather the most useful, reliable, cost-effect information and use it to make informed decisions for asset management. Four key infrastructure areas have been identified as primary asset components; pavements, bridges, geotechnical features, and roadside appurtenances. Each area contains multiple categories and data elements important for sound decision making. Although some similarities exist in these four primary categories, the nature of data collection may differ, depending on the asset type. The, sheer number of data elements and the length of asset networks for pavements and roadside appurtenances render the automated highway speed data collection method a necessity rather than a luxury. However, the discrete nature of bridges and geotechnical features make the automated mobile data collection method on a network level unfeasible with today's technology. Important issues in the collection process include precision, subjectivity and variability of the process itself, as well as speed, safety of the survey crew, proximity of the public, cost, etc. Although previous research has attempted to address these issues and determine the most appropriate method(s), the question remains as to which roadway data collection system is best for state highway agencies given real world constraints. This research set up a "sealed envelope" experiment wherein the identification, location, description, and quality of the asset data elements are known only to NCSU researchers. Vendors are informed of only the data necessary to perform their evaluation. To support this effort at 95-mile test course near Raleigh, North Carolina was identified, which contained a sampling of pavement, roadside, geotechnical and bridge elements. This document reports on the findings from the study







AASHTO Transportation Asset Management Guide


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Aims to encourage transportation agencies to address strategic questions as they confront the task of managing the surface transportation system. Drawn form both national and international knowledge and experience, it provides guidance to State Department of Transportation (DOT) decision makers, as well as county and municipal transportation agencies, to assist them in realizing the most from financial resources now and into the future, preserving highway assets, and providing the service expected by customers. Divided into two parts, Part one focuses on leadership and goal and objective setintg, while Part two is more technically oriented. Appendices include work sheets and case studies.




An Asset-management Framework for the Interstate Highway System


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Explores a framework for applying asset-management principles and practices to managing Interstate Highway System investments.




Asset Management Decision-Making For Infrastructure Systems


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This textbook provides practical and concrete guidance for the step-by-step implementation of decision-making for infrastructure asset management. Examples are used to illustrate how data from condition assessment are used to develop performance models, to estimate the effectiveness of investments that are prioritized and scheduled to accomplish reliable and convenient infrastructure for the wellbeing of the public and regional economic competitiveness. Book illustrates numerous worked problems to clarify ambiguity in developing a decision-making platform to prioritize assets and distribute budgets effectively and efficiently. Ensures reader understanding of the benefits and challenges of infrastructure asset management; Provides a step-by-step guide for the development of each component of an asset management decision-making system; Includes worked examples to clarify decision-making and budget allocation process.




Asset Inventory Critical Questions Skills Assessment


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You want to know how to select, collect, align, and integrate Asset Inventory skills data and information for tracking daily operations and overall organizational performance, including progress relative to strategic objectives and action plans. In order to do that, you need the answer to how has the Asset Inventory skills data been gathered? The problem is what Asset Inventory skills data will be collected, which makes you feel asking what Asset Inventory skills data should be managed? We believe there is an answer to problems like what does Asset Inventory skills success mean to the stakeholders. We understand you need to identify specific Asset Inventory skills investment opportunities and emerging trends which is why an answer to 'how does the Asset Inventory skills manager ensure against scope creep?' is important. Here's how you do it with this book: 1. Ensure that implementations of Asset Inventory skills products are done in a way that ensures safety 2. Proactively clarify deliverables and Asset Inventory skills quality expectations 3. Integrate your existing asset management and ITSM systems with the digital lockers So, how does software asset management prevent attacks from bad software assets? This Asset Inventory Critical Questions Skills Assessment book puts you in control by letting you ask what's important, and in the meantime, ask yourself; what capabilities does software asset management support? So you can stop wondering 'how does software asset management address types of attacks?' and instead measure the success of your asset management initiative. This Asset Inventory Guide is unlike books you're used to. If you're looking for a textbook, this might not be for you. This book and its included digital components is for you who understands the importance of asking great questions. This gives you the questions to uncover the Asset Inventory challenges you're facing and generate better solutions to solve those problems. INCLUDES all the tools you need to an in-depth Asset Inventory Skills Assessment. Featuring new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core levels of Asset Inventory maturity, this Skills Assessment will help you identify areas in which Asset Inventory improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: Diagnose Asset Inventory projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices. Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals. Integrate recent advances in Asset Inventory and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines. Using the Skills Assessment tool gives you the Asset Inventory Scorecard, enabling you to develop a clear picture of which Asset Inventory areas need attention. Your purchase includes access to the Asset Inventory skills assessment digital components which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool that enables you to define, show and lead your organization exactly with what's important.










Asset Management


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State of Good Repair


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"TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 157: State of Good Repair: Prioritizing the Rehabilitation and Replacement of Existing Capital Assets and Evaluating the Implications for Transit presents a framework that builds upon a set of fundamental concepts and provides a basic set of steps for transit agencies to follow when evaluating and prioritizing capital asset rehabilitation and replacement investments. In addition to the printed report, an analytical approach and set of spreadsheet tools were developed to support the framework. These tools address how to evaluate rehabilitation and replacement actions for specific types of transit assets, and how to prioritize candidate rehabilitation and replacement actions."--Publisher's description.