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A report which documents FHWA's efforts to build an agencywide asset management strategy by increasing understanding and support of the practice, finding relationships between TAM principles and the agency's programming, and developing a plan for implementation.

This case study details the data integration process at Virginia DOT. VDOT's data integration strategy has enabled the agency to develop better decision-making tools and has facilitated efficient integration of asset management data. 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 case study details the data integration process at Pennsylvania DOT. The central component of this process is a series of updates to the agency's core functions and the management systems that support them, which facilitate the agency's simultaneous top-down and bottom-up approaches to data integration. PennDOT has developed strategic guidelines to ensure compatability among management systems, and improved mechanisms for integration of data into the updated systems in order to reach their asset management goals. 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 case study details the data integration process at Colorado DOT. CDOT approached data integration from the perspectives of policy and information technology, paving the way for efficiency and effective asset management. 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 case study details the data integration process at Arizona DOT. ADOT's data integration practices revolve around the ADOT Information Data Warehouse (AIDW), which provides a fast and inexpensive means for data integration. The case study describes the benefits of the AIDW, as well as other data management practices and concepts used at ADOT. 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.

The Optimised Decision Making Guidelines expands on topics in the International Infrastructure Management Manual providing a step-by-step guide to making optimum decisions for infrastructure acquisition, renewal, operations, and maintenance.

In the latest version of this somewhat controversial annual report, Professor David Hartgen of the University of NC at Charlotte analyzes the condition and maintenance of highways in the U.S., and sees a "looming crisis." Included in the report is a ranking of all 50 states in terms of financial performance, system performance, and overall cost-effectiveness.

The objective of this project is to develop a simple and practical guidebook aimed at CEOs of state Departments of Transportation outlining ways to implement best practices for incorporating the use of performance measures into management practices and strategic planning.

This case study documents the development of the asset management program at Oregon DOT. ODOT changed their asset management methodology to incorporate economics as they produced the Oregon Highway Plan with the use of HERS, an investment-performance model. This 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 compendium comprises articles and other reference materials that detail the facets of the pavement preservation process, and pavement management activities underway in the United States.

This is the fifth in a series of combined documents prepared by the U.S. Department of Transportation to satisfy requirements for reports to Congress on the condition, performance, and future capital investment requirements of the Nation's highway and transit systems. This report incorporates highway and bridge information required by Section 502(g) of Title 23, United States Code (U.S.C.), as well as transit system information required by Section 308(e) of Title 49, U.S.C. Beginning in 1993, the Department combined two existing report series that covered highways and transit separately to form this report series. This report draws primarily on 2000 data. This document is intended to provide Congress and other decision makers with an objective appraisal of highway, bridge and transit physical conditions, operational performance, financing mechanisms and future investment requirements. This report offers a comprehensive, factual background to support the development and evaluation of legislative, program, and budget options at all levels of government. It also serves as a primary source of information for national and international news media, transportation associations, and industry. This report consolidates conditions, performance, and finance data provided by States, local governments, and mass transit operators, to provide a national level summary. Some of the underlying data are available through the Department's regular statistical publications. The future investment requirements analyses are developed specifically for this report and provide national level projections only. The report begins with an Executive Summary section that highlights the key findings in each chapter. This section is also distributed as a separate stand-alone summary document. The main body of the report is organized into five major sections: (I) Description of Current System (Chapters 1 through 6); (II) Investment/Performance Analyses (Chapters 7 through 10); (III) Federal Bridge Program/Status of the Nation's Bridges (Chapter 11); (IV) Special Topics (Chapters 12 through 22); and (V) Supplemental Analyses of System Components (Chapters 23 through 27). The report also contains three technical appendices that describe the investment/performance methodologies used in the report for highways, bridges, and transit.

This report explains why road network asset managers are concerned with understanding and quantifying the remaining life of key components of road infrastructure assets, especially road pavements and bridges. The issues in estimating remaining life are reviewed. Current practices of the major road authorities in Australia and New Zealand in estimating remaining life of road pavements and bridges are discussed. Common terms such as design life, design period, useful life, economic life, functional life, and financial life are discussed. The report outlines the experience of the Roads and Traffic Authority of NSW in estimating the life of rigid pavements, and contains two case studies. University of Texas research findings on estimation of the remaining life of continuously reinforced concrete pavements are summarised. For bridges, this report discusses deterioration, highlights the need for standardisation in the approach to recording condition and maintenance history, and summarises recent bridge management initiatives by VicRoads. (a)