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U.S. Domestic Scan Program: Best Practices in Transportation Asset Management

The purpose of this scan was to identify best case examples of the application of asset management principles and practice in U.S. transportation agencies. The scan was sponsored by American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP). The scan participants included FHWA officials, representatives from state transportation agencies in Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, and Vermont, a university professor in transportation engineering and planning, and a consultant support staff. The scan team met with a range of organizations, including: State transportation agencies (Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Oregon, and Utah); A city transportation department (Portland, Oregon); Two metropolitan planning organizations (the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments in Detroit and the Grand Valley Metropolitan Council in Grand Rapids, Michigan); Two county transportation departments (Hillsborough County, Florida and Kent County, Michigan); A tollway authority (Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise); and Two statewide asset management associations (the Michigan Transportation Asset Management Council and the Pacific Northeast Asset Management User Group, Oregon). Specific questions relating to different aspects of the agency’s experience with asset management were sent to each agency beforehand. In most cases, the scan team received written responses to these questions, and in all cases, the scan team obtained information from interviews with key staff members at each site. The agencies visited exhibited various stages of evolution in their application of asset management to their transportation decision-making process. Both the Michigan and Ohio Departments of Transportation (DOTs), for example, have a comprehensive and sophisticated approach to asset management that has been integrated throughout their respective organizations. Other agencies, such as the Oregon and Utah DOTs, have not yet reached the levels found in Michigan and Ohio, but have adopted innovative and successful approaches that will allow them to reach such levels in the next few years. Thus, the observations presented in this report should be understood in the context that not all agencies visited were at the same stage of development of their respective asset management process. Briefly stated, the results of the site visits cover the following: (1) a 'preservation first' strategy for investment priorities; (2) an asset management champion(s); (3) existence of an asset management process instrumental in securing additional dollars from the legislature; (4) adoption of investment principles that are based on life-cycle costing; (5) performance measures guiding investment decisions throughout an organization; (6) scenario analysis showing the consequences of performance measures; (7) many different organizational models for asset management; (8) cross organization coordination of asset management process; (9) organizational self assessment; (10) risk analysis; (11) data quality and cost-effective data collection strategies; (12) customer orientation; (13) new technologies for data collection; and (14) in-house or private contract for long-term maintenance.

Language

  • English

Media Info

  • Media Type: Web
  • Edition: Scan-Tour Report
  • Features: Appendices; Figures; Tables;
  • Pagination: 182p

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 01045894
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Report/Paper Numbers: NCHRP Project 20-68
  • Files: TRIS, TRB, USDOT
  • Created Date: Apr 5 2007 4:17PM