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A presentation on the development of a transportation asset management plan for Minnesota DOT.

This presentation outlines highway-related asset management practices, and how they may be implemented in state highway agencies.

A presentation from CDOT that outlines the importance of a nationally recognized system for pavement performance measures and maintenance.

A presentation from WSDOT that describes the importance of a nationally recognized system for pavement performance measures and maintenance.

A presentation from NCDOT that describes the importance of a nationally recognized system for pavement performance measures and maintenance.

This presentation details the process for measuring pavement performance in European agencies.

A presentation on the process of incorporating rockfall hazard ratings into an asset management system, in order to improve safety and performance.

As transportation agencies begin to expand their infrastructure management programs to include ancillary assets such as guardrails and traffic signs, the question of how to prioritize these assets for inclusion in existing programs becomes important, especially when faced with limited resources. This paper assesses the opportunities to prioritize ancillary assets for management based on quantified benefits of managing each asset category. Two reported methods for quantifying the benefits of asset management are reviewed, revealing some challenges in applying them to ancillary assets, and a third framework based on benefit-cost analysis (BCA) is proposed and evaluated. The results indicate that the supporting roles played by ancillary assets within the transportation system makes it difficult to attribute certain costs and benefits to specific assets. Furthermore, the benefits of an asset management program at one level of maturity may be different from the benefits at another level of maturity due to expected differences in outputs and outcomes. This paper reveals the importance of considering benefits and costs of asset management programs over an extended period of program maturation, rather than at a snapshot in time, in order to make sound decisions on the value of such programs, and emphasizes the importance of systematic data collection to track the evolution of benefits and costs of asset management programs.

A document that considers sustainable pavement management, offering recommendations for incorporation of environmental impacts of pavement treatments into a performance-based optimization.

This paper contains findings from the International Scan on Managing Pavements and Monitoring Performance.

A report on the evaluation of the pavement condition of the National Highway System (NHS).

This document details the process of enhancing network-level decision-making through the use of a structural capacity index.