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The guide focuses on how agencies can implement Transportation Asset Management (TAM). The short brochure defines TAM as “a strategic and systematic process of operating, maintaining, upgrading and expanding physical assets effectively throughout their lifecycle.” The brochure then discusses the benefits of TAM and enumerates the steps to implement TAM.

This guide is intended to assist environmental agencies better understand the Lean methods and the correct usage of each method. It focuses on Lean production, an organizational improvement philosophy that allows agencies to reduce waste in government processes.

Alaska DOT & PF seeks to develop their agency's asset management maturity in order to improve the life cycle management and performance of their resources. The TAMP addresses a desire to more effectively use rich collections of data, fill gaps in data and understanding of performance, and change organizational procedures and culture. This TAMP outlines a work plan for the timeframe of 2012-2014, composed of self-contained projects for the advancement of the agency's current practice.

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This tool provides a template and guidelines for a Lean Project Charter.

This LeanOhio toolkit includes detailed descriptions of common tools that yield significant improvements in an agency's workplace. The tools include Continuous Improvement, Lean, and Six Sigma methodologies.

This video serves as a Lean Tool and shows the IDEO Shopping Cart Project's DeepDive methodology in practice.

This tool provides guidance for the 6S method that is crucial to the Lean approach. It includes evaluations, checklists, and tips for successful implementation of the 6S method.

Objective: To identify key issues to be addressed ensure consistency and increase usefulness of the HPMS as a national source for pavement performance management.

Develop a framework for the self- assessment of data programs based on logical processes, success factors, and associated tools for assessing the suitability of transportation data for decision making on critical-issues. Completed; report available on NCHRP web site.

The objectives of this project were to (a) review and assess states’ current practices for quantifying serious injuries from motor vehicle crashes, (b) describe issues to be addressed in adapting CODES or other available databases to provide a basis for comparative analysis of DOT performance regarding serious crash injuries and safety management, and (c) describe feasible options for addressing these issues and assess their relative merits.

The objectives of this project were to (a) review specific measures used by DOTs for measurement of pavement structural health, (b) compare and assess the suitability of selected measures to be used more widely to characterize system performance regarding pavement structural health, (c) recruit DOTs to participate in demonstrating how pavement structural health may be compared among states.