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"This report summarizes the proceedings of the Asset Management and Safety Peer Exchange hosted by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). The peer exchange was held in Cheyenne, WY on August 2, 2011.
The peer exchange addressed various aspects of asset management and safety – How can one improve safety performance through better asset management? What are effective ways to manage safety assets? How do agencies plan, prioritize, and budget safety asset needs? Managers from state DOTs and FHWA gathered to dialogue on best practices, challenges, and sharing of experiences."

Overview of Rail & Bus SGR Program Framework, Presented at the Third State of Good Repair Roundtable.

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) Capital Investment Strategy, presented at the Third State of Good Repair Roundtable in 2011.

Developed to assist asset intensive entities plan and manage asset management responsibilities.

The purpose of this synthesis was to examine and document the current state of the practice in transit asset condition management. Transit asset management is defined here as a strategic planning process that supports informed capital investment planning and programming. It is said that "good" transit asset management can provide critical support in two key areas—establishing the level of need for infrastructure investment and programming the cost of effective investment. The report's objective is to provide transit agencies and their federal, state, and local funding partners with a review of current practices in hopes of encouraging industry-wide discussion on standards and the data needed to measure conditions and use the information in making effective investment decisions. The report contains information derived from a literature review and the results of an industrial survey of the 50 largest multi-modal transit agencies in terms of operations size, which yielded an 82% response rate. Further, detailed case studies of innovative practices at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and the New York City Transit Authority describe the origin of each agency's asset management system, how it is used, and how it evolved over time. Then two agencies were chosen to represent two distinct State of Good Repair systems that represent different approaches and that would likely have the most advanced asset management systems because of the complexity of their operations. These examples might help others identify opportunities and challenges for upgrading and increasing the consistency of their own transit asset condition reporting.

This Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) digest summarizes the results of a mission performed from June 11 through 25, 2010, under TCRP Project J-03, International Transit Studies Program. This digest examines how bus and rail agencies and operators in several European cities develop community support for public transportation and how those communities implement sustainable funding strategies for transit assets, operations, and maintenance. The cities visited include London and Nottingham, United Kingdom; Strasbourg, France; Karlsruhe and Berlin, Germany; and Oslo, Norway.

This executive summary, produced for NCHRP project 20-24(74), provides an overview of risk management. It outlines risk management concepts, benefits, challenges, and approaches to implementation.

In the second part of FHWA's case study on North Carolina DOT, the agency's expansion on its asset management program is explored. The NCDOT further developed their Long Range State Transportation Plan to complete the development of a 30 year Comprehensive Transportation Plan, a 10-year Transportation Plan and a 5-year Work Program. The agency has also developed and implemented performance measures, several management systems, web-based analytical tools to facilitate allocation of funds, improved decision making processes, and other asset management practices. With their many new developments and with their maintenance and preservation approach to asset management, NCDOT has continued to expand its use of TAM philosophies to build a more proactive agency. 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 report summarizes the proceedings of the National Bridge Management, Inspection and Preservation Conference held November 1 and 2, 2011, in St. Louis, Missouri. The conference included tracks on bridge management, inspection and preservation with an emphasis upon how all three interrelated disciplines can collaborate to improve the long-term performance of the nation's highway bridges with the conference theme being beyond the short term.

This guide demonstrates the cost benefits of using proactive preservation strategies, rather than the use of reactive "worst first" solutions. Maintaining a state of good repair minimizes costs and maximizes the lives of an agency's bridge assets. This guide provides recommendations on investment strategies and bridge preservation activities that facilitate SGR.

A report on the findings of a study on data collection and analysis for highway infrastructure health.

The FHWA in coordination with AASHTO conducted a study to define a consistent and reliable method to document infrastructure health with a focus on pavements and bridges on the Interstate System, and to develop a framework for tools that can provide FHWA and State DOTs ready access to key information that will allow for better and more complete assessments of infrastructure health nationally. This report summarizes the proceedings of a national meeting entitled, “AASHTO/FHWA Workshop on the Highway Infrastructure Health Assessment Study.” This workshop provided an opportunity for senior-level State department of transportation (DOT) stakeholders to provide input into national performance measures for pavements and bridges and identify challenges and implementation issues. The results of this Workshop including a summary of discussions related to proposed pavement and bridge condition and health metrics are contained in this report.