Development of an Asset Management Screening Tool

This paper represents a concise summary of a project to develop an Asset Management Screening Tool for use by transportation agencies. The purpose of the screening tool is to provide a screening instrument for state transportation agency managers to use to help assess the best asset management approach or strategy for various assets. In particular, maintenance managers at agencies that do not have a fully integrated and data-populated asset management system may find the tool helpful. It was designed to facilitate the decision-making process related to asset management and associated performance measures for safety and operations. The Asset Management Screening Tool is based on the Asset Management Guidebook, a stand-alone product that was also developed during this research project. The guidebook contains easy-to-use, practical guidelines that DOT personnel can use to identify the best approach to asset management on three possible levels if feasible and practical: (1) total asset management for large urban areas encompassing multiple counties, (2) asset management of critical functions on a smaller regional scale, and (3) asset management for specific types of assets that may be based on warranty specifications. The Asset Management Screening Tool is a simplified version of the guidebook: essentially an instrument that provides guidance electronically to the end users. A detailed user guide accompanies the tool. The screening tool is a stand-alone, standardized, Windows® application designed to be able to be run on any Windows® based computer. The tool and guidebook can be found at: http://tti.tamu.edu/documents/0-6390-P2.zip.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABC40 Transportation Asset Management.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Theiss, LuAnn
  • Kuhn, Beverly T
  • Yang, Yonggao
  • Perkins, Judy A
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
• Date: 2013

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 19p
• Monograph Title: TRB 92nd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Asset management; Decision making; Handbooks; Maintenance management; Performance measurement; Warranty
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Maintenance and Preservation; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01476233
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 13-4066
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 19 2013 5:00PM