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Conference Program: 8th National Conference on Asset Management, October 19-22, 2009, Portland, Oregon

Transportation agencies are developing procedures and guidelines for managing the quality of pavement data collected to ensure the data meet the needs of the pavement management process. This study reviews the quality management practices being employed by public highway agencies for automated, semi-automated, and manual pavement data collection and delivery. Information was gathered through literature review, surveys of U.S. state and Canadian province public agencies and private contractors, and selected interviews.

The New Jersey long range transportation plan describes the state of transportation in NJ, it predicts trends for the future of transportation, and it provides policy directions for how to achieve the state's goals. Working with key partners and public survey, the NJ plan encapsulates the needs and ideas of transportation users from across the state. As of February 2020, this plan is currently under development, and a new draft is expected soon.

Kansas's long range plan provides a vision and framework for the transportation system until 2030. It is guided by three primary principles: system preservation, safer travel, and economic growth. Dealing with the challenges caused by funding shortages and a need to transition to more adaptive decision-making, the long range plan concludes by outlining a series of system-wide recommendations. Most of these recommendations originate from stakeholder meetings conducted by Kansas DOT.

In August 2019, Kansas DOT released a memo briefly describing their plan to update their long range transportation plan and extend the horizon to 2045. Until the new plan is released, the most up-to-date plan is this one from 2008.

This report by the Australian Government works as a guide to explain and implement risk management systems within Australian Government agencies. It first contextualizes risk within the Australian Government, and then explains both the foundation and operationalization of effective risk management. While it does provide outlines for these tasks, it should be noted that it is particularly Australia/ New Zealand specific.

This report focuses on how climate change will affect transportation infrastructure. It contains a clear assessment of the scientific consensus on climate change and explains how agencies must adapt to the changing climate. The report is divided in six chapters: 1, introduction; 2, review of the current knowledge about climate change; 3, the vulnerability of infrastructure; 4, how climate change affects the transportation industry specifically; 5, adoption strategies; and 6, policy recommendations.

This study explains why the traditional approach to road safety is inferior to a more modern risk assessment system. Historically, risk on roads were determined by previous crashes. If a crash occurred at a location, that location was assessed to have risk. A superior system, however, is assessing roads for risk based on their design and use before a crash actually occurs. Australia adopted this approach under their Safe System.

This guide by Her Majesty’s Government seeks to highlight specific topics related to the management of information risk. It first defines and explains the idea of information risk. It follows this by then explaining all of the different issues such as lack of comprehensive oversight and control, third party failure, and loss of critical information giving real case studies for each.

ASCE's 2005 Report Card for America's Infrastructure assessed the condition and capacity of our nation's public works with an overall grade of D. ASCE estimates that $1.6 trillion is needed over a five-year period to bring the nation's infrastructure to good condition. While long term solutions are needed, in the short term, small steps can be taken by the 110th Congress (January 3, 2007 - January 3, 2009) to improve our nation's failing infrastructure.

The objectives of this research project are to (1) facilitate the process of comparing the performance of peer state DOTs using the International Roughness Index (IRI); (2) prepare, analyze, and evaluate the performance data; and (3) identify and document good practice.

The Transportation Research Board (TRB) Task Force on Accelerating Innovation, partnered with the Joint AASHTO–FHWA–NCHRP International Technology Scanning Program, to conduct a 1-day, executive-level workshop on transportation asset management, December 13, 2006, in the National Academy of Sciences Lecture Room, 2100 C Street NW, Washington, D.C. This forum was limited to 15 senior executives and their asset management program managers. The agenda was developed to maximize dialogue and discussion. The program included the following highlights: International roundtable with speakers from Australia; Alberta, Canada; and the United Kingdom; U.S. roundtable and case studies with speakers from Florida, MI, UT, and OH Departments of Transportation (DOTs); Focus on the role of asset management in the growing area of public–private partnerships (PPPs); and Extended dialogue time among senior executives. The program offered opportunities to learn how other states and countries have benefited from asset management: Better quantifying the condition of key assets; Improving financial projections by professionally dealing with shortfall and expectations; Improving system performance even with constant or declining dollars; Improving analyses and strategic investment options; Improving internal decision making; Improving dialogue with legislatures, governors, and citizens; Advancing culture change from expenditures to investments; and Applying asset management to better analyze PPPs.

Risk Assessment and Risk Management in Transportation Asset Management at Australian Agencies.