Best Practices in Highway Maintenance Performance Measuring

As transportation agencies have shifted their focus from system expansion to system preservation and maintenance, they have increasingly turned to maintenance quality assurance (MQA) programs to document the effectiveness of their maintenance activities, to demonstrate that funds for maintenance and operations are being used effectively, and to link performance data to budget requirements to meet targeted condition levels. In the fall of 2011, a domestic scan took place to study the use of MQA programs for maintenance and operations activities. The scan used a workshop approach that allowed participants from 17 state highway agencies to discuss their current MQA practices. Eight different sessions were conducted, addressing a range of topics, including MQA data collection methods and measures and the validation methods used to ensure data reliability. The impact of sampling on data quality and cost was also discussed, as was the use of innovations in data collection. Other sessions focused on the use of MQA data for setting budgets and allocating resources, building accountability both internally and externally, calculating trade-offs in maintenance and capital expenditures, and benchmarking practices across agencies. This paper summarizes the results of the scan in each of the topic areas addressed and presents overall findings from the discussions. In addition, the paper presents the scan team’s recommendations for advancing the state of the practice and strategies for implementing the recommendations.

• Record URL:
  • https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/22752
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• Availability:
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• Authors:
  • Zimmerman, Kathryn A
  • Yurek, Russ
• Conference:
  • 2012 AASHTO–TRB Maintenance Management Conference
  • Location: Seattle WA, United States
  • Date: 2012-7-15 to 2012-7-19
• Publication Date: 2012-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Pagination: pp 75-88
• Monograph Title: Maintenance Management 2012: Presentations from the 2012 AASHTO–TRB Maintenance Management Conference, July 15–19, 2012, Seattle, Washington
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Circular
  • Issue Number: E-C163
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0097-8515

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Best practices; Data collection; Data quality; Highway maintenance; Performance measurement; Quality assurance; State departments of transportation; State of the practice
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; I60: Maintenance;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01379116
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: MMC12-139
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Jul 31 2012 7:53AM