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Transport Scotland's 2007 Road Asset Management Plan (RAMP) beings with agency objectives and targets, based on customer expectations. The RAMP describes decision-making processes including lifecycle plans, decision support, and processes reviewing the RAMP. This document also contains a work plan and financial plan for the upcoming year.

The Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation and Public Works developed this asset management plan in 2007, in order to address challenges to their investment decision-making process. The objectives of the plan include developing a work plan to guide the MassHighway Asset Management Steering Committee, and an asset management plan for the Interstate System.

This guide’s goal is to guide the reader on how to apply the principles of asset management to a diverse range of road systems and assets. This section, Performance Modeling, is part 7 of the guide. Other topics, such as performance of pavement and structures, are discussed in other sections.

A guide which provides information on the history, benefits, and practices of asset management, as well as next steps for research and implementation of asset management.

This case study details the asset management process at Washington State DOT. WSDOT has developed a TAM program that includes performance measures and targets, data management systems, and innovative reporting methods such as their publication, “Measures, Markers and Mileposts: WSDOT’s quarterly report to the Governor and the Washington State Transportation Commission on transportation programs and department management.” This report, also known as "The Gray Notebook," links the agency's performance measures to its objectives. The WSDOT's core objective is to optimize the state's entire transportation network through its decentralized approach to asset management. This report on their asset management program is part of the FHWA Office of Asset Management's series of case studies on TAM, produced with the goal of sharing information between agencies to improve efficiency.

This case study details the asset management process at North Carolina DOT. In 2004, NCDOT's Board of Transportation adopted the Long Range Statewide Transportation Plan, which serves as a blueprint for the agency's future. The plan established direction for the agency and has produced workgroups tasked with developing performance based measures for NCDOT. The report is part of the FHWA Office of Asset Management's series of case studies on TAM, produced with the goal of sharing information between agencies to improve efficiency.

This scan report was conducted to identify examples of the best applications of asset management principles and practices. The report includes findings, observations and conclusions, and recommendations for further actions.

This report describes the development of methodologies for network- and project-level optimization of multiple, user-specified performance criteria. Bridge management software modules to implement the methodologies were also developed. The report details the development of methodologies. The software modules, user’s manual, and demonstration database are provided on an accompanying CD-ROM. The material in this report will be of immediate interest to bridge managers and planners.

This synthesis reports on bridge inspection practices in the United States and selected foreign countries. Specifically, it is a collection of information on formal inspection practices of departments of transportation (DOTs). For U.S. inspection practices, information is presented on inspection personnel (staff titles and functions, qualifications, training and certification, inspection teams, and the assignment of teams to bridges), inspection types (focus, methods, and frequency), and inspection quality control and quality assurance by the DOT inspection programs. Foreign practices are also presented according to inspection personnel, types, and quality programs. Also examined are uses agencies make of information gathered from bridge inspections, what triggers repairs, and plans for future development of inspection programs. Information from Canadian sources can be found in Appendix C. Information for the study was collected through a DOT survey and reviewed bridge inspection manuals. Information was also obtained from 7 European transportation agencies and the South African transportation agency.

This manual provides guidance for the application of the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) as a decision support tool in road asset management. AHP is a multi-criteria analysis technique that allows trade-off between objectives with different measurement units. With AHP, the user can rank or prioritise a number of options according to their performance in achieving the objectives or assessment criteria. In this manual, the steps involved in applying AHP for the following road asset management activities are demonstrated by examples: ranking maintenance intervention criteria, allocating budget across the different assets and trading-off maintenance intervention criteria across assets to meet budget limits.

This manual on bridge and highway maintenance contains seven major chapters as follow: 1. Maintenance Management; 2. Roadway Maintenance and Management; 3. Bridge Maintenance and Management; 4. Equipment Systems; 5. Maintenance Research and Development; 6. Tort Litigation; and 7. Systems Operation and Management.

This synthesis was designed to gain a better understanding of the state of the practice for managing transportation infrastructure assets other than pavements and bridges, identify best practices, and document gaps in knowledge and areas for further study. It examines key aspects of asset management related to selected infrastructure assets (traffic signals, lighting, signs, pavement lane striping and other markings, drainage culverts and pipes, and sidewalks), including primary sources of technical guidance for management; basic approaches to budgeting for and conducting preservation, operation, and maintenance; organizational responsibilities for ongoing maintenance; measurement of asset condition and performance, including methods and frequencies of data collection; estimates of service lives (or deterioration models) for key components of the selected assets, accounting for the different materials used; information technology capabilities available to help agencies manage these selected assets; and perceptions of the transportation objectives that are served by maintaining selected assets in good condition.