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This presentation seeks to answer questions about establishing risk management within transportation agencies. It first defines risk and explains the risk management process and its relationship to other transportation asset management processes. It then outlines the MAP-21 risk management requirements and the benefits of risk management.

This presentation focuses on three topics– risk, strategic decisions, and funding allocation considering risks. First, risk is defined, explaining its utility at different levels, and then investment decision making is outlined. Knowledge of these two topics enables readers to understand decision making while considering risks and the benefits such knowledge can provide.

This presentation demonstrates a systematic business approach to transportation asset management can help organizations reach their goals including greater consistency, reduce life cycle costs, and ensure performance goals are met. The presentation explains how a systematic business approach is built including the multi-level buy-in, technology, and strong leadership team.

This presentation overviews Denver RTD's asset management program. It explains the asset breakdown of Denver RTD's public and maintenance facilities, its condition assessments, and its dashboards.

This presentation focuses on different types of mobile data collection currently being pursued by MnDOT. These methods include photogrammetry, esri ArcGIS Mobile, LiDAR, mobile remote control vehicles, 3D sonar, and drones. These techniques provide MnDOT with new, more efficient ways to collect data on its assets.

This report focuses on pavement management strategies. It introduces optimization methods opposed to traditional cost/benefit and worst first strategies. These new methods will ideally be able take multiple factors into account when making investment decisions. This provides benefits over traditional strategies which cannot take multiple constraints into account. It then provides a case study of how the strategy would work.

This presentation outlines how the new requirements of MAP-21 for State DOT's help to improve efficiency within organizations. Aspects of New Mexico DOT (NMDOT) that were discussed include self-service data, workshops, dashboards, investment scenarios, resource allocation, and program communication and transparency. It concludes with possible improvements for NMDOT include a better pavement management system to change from a reactive organize to a proactive one.

This presentation outlines the progress that has been made on the development of an investment planning tool for Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) assets. This tool will help agencies understand their future investment needs while providing customization based upon agency preferences. The system will give annual costs, 10 year investment levels, and annual investments.

This presentation given at the 11th National Conference on Transportation Asset Management focuses on prioritization of projects. The presentation notes the MAP-21 requirements for transit agencies and how the use of programs such as TERM Lite enables them to meet the requirements.

This presentation was given during the Roundtable Discussion of Innovation at the 11th National Conference on Transportation Asset Management. The Trapeze State of Good Repair tool introduced in this presentation uses three support methods– age based decay curves, physical condition inspections, and performance based condition scores– to track the state of assets.

This presentation focuses on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission's use of TERM Lite a long-range capital projection tool. The 46 parameters and 58 possible scenarios enables the MTC to run many scenarios for higher quality analysis. However, the system requires intense data management.

This presentation by Sharon Okoye of CTDOT and Bill Roberts of Spy Pond Partners presents an outline of CT Transit's assets and practices and then notes the most significant gaps in asset management practices at CT Transit. Most notably, CT Transit has gaps in its inventory and condition data and also lacks a clear asset hierarchy. It concludes with a set of draft tasks for CT Transit.