System Tiers: Making Tough Choices for Asset Management

Increasing costs and increasing user demand in an era of declining revenue has necessitated transportation departments (DOTs) to begin dividing the network into different tiers for resource allocation and optimization of limited funds, while still trying to maintain the "Good Roads Cost Less" philosophy. Revenue shortfalls in some State DOTs are so severe that many miles of pavement are being "turned off" in terms of repair and rehabilitation with routine maintenance as the only option on these miles. Reaping the benefits of an optimized asset or pavement management program under these circumstances can often be difficult when the constraints on that program due to system tiers and varying key performance measure goals are taken into consideration. This paper examines efforts by State DOTs in setting performance goals and budgets based on system tiers and the impacts of those tiers on the systems implemented for pavement (PMS) and asset management (AMS). The paper focuses on efforts by the Utah DOT, the North Dakota DOT and the Maine DOT and discusses their respective management systems. Key components of the PMS and AMS within each DOT are highlighted and the impacts of the system tiers on those systems are discussed and explained.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • The local host for the conference is Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; the international host is the Transportation Research Board of the National Research Council, USA.
• Corporate Authors:

  Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

  College of Engineering
  Avenida Vicuna Mackenna 4860, Macul
  Santiago,   Chile 
• Authors:
  • Burns, Stan
  • Weigel, Stephanie
  • Zainhofsky, Scott
  • Getchell, Chip
  • Emidy, Anne
  • Zavitski, Jeffrey
• Conference:
  • Eighth International Conference on Managing Pavement Assets
  • Location: Santiago , Chile
  • Date: 2011-11-15 to 2011-11-19
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 9p
• Monograph Title: 8th International Conference on Managing Pavement Assets, November 15-19, 2011, Santiago, Chile: "Fulfilling the Social, Economic and Environmental Responsibility for Sustainable, Well Managed, Better Roads"

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Asset management; Budgeting; Pavement management systems; State departments of transportation
• Identifier Terms: Maine Department of Transportation; North Dakota Department of Transportation; Utah Department of Transportation
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; I10: Economics and Administration; I60: Maintenance;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01367434
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9789561412309
• Report/Paper Numbers: ICMPA103
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 9 2012 4:45PM