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VTrans Fact Book. Tropical Storm Irene did much to set the stage for what has been one of the busiest years in the history of the Agency of Transportation. Our response to the storm and our examination of that response has led to innovations in the field and the back office that will shape us for years to come, making us a stronger organization.

The IAM is the professional body for those involved in acquisition, operation and care of physical assets, especially critical infrastructure - and particularly for professionals worldwide dedicated to furthering our knowledge and understanding of Asset Management.

Asset Management Council Website

This presentation describes benefits and challenges to a transit asset management plan, and how they may be faced at the community or rural level.

This plan defines two sets of goals, project goals and process goals, which combine to form the framework for Kentucky's transportation investment decisions through 2035. The plan provides descriptions of the state's demographic trends, current transportation system, future vision, and finally the application performance-based planning to support the framework.

This guide to mitigating risk from climate change across the US highway system contains strategies to deal with the necessary changes infrastructure will need to combat climate change. Dealing with climate change through 2050 and sea level rise through 2100, the guide gives recommendations for all types of assets, including bridges, culverts, pavement, slopes, stormwater infrastructure, and walls. There is also a software tool that provides information based on region, tables with the same information as the software tool, and two spreadsheets of cost-benefit analyses of various adoption strategies.

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. Research is complete, and the final report is available for download on the TRB website.

The objective of this “Raising the Bar” document is to highlight some of the lean tools and techniques, which demonstrate a positive impact on Health, Safety and Well-being.

This webpage provides two summaries of results from Colorado DOT's improvement efforts in 2013.

Performance-based planning and programming (PBPP) refers to the application of performance management principles within the planning and programming processes of transportation agencies to achieve desired performance outcomes for the multimodal transportation system. The Guidebook has been designed to help State DOTs, MPOs, RTPOs, transit agencies, and other partner organizations understand: the key elements of a PBPP process and the relationship of these elements within existing planning and programming processes. The Guidebook is designed to highlight effective practices to help transportation agencies in moving toward a performance-based approach to planning and programming.

There are two generally accepted methods for evaluating performance of intersections in Delaware - a volume based measure using the critical movement summary method and a delay based method, most commonly done using simulation software like Synchro. Each provides unique indicators of the intersections "health", just like a patient with two vital signs. And in general, they are used separately. This research proposes to provide a new, hybrid measure of intersection performance using the two level of service (LOS) measures together.

This study examines pavement management models using data from the Oklahoma DOT. Using 16 years of data collected with the Deighton Total Infrastructure Management System (dTIMS), the current models for predicting pavement deterioration are examined, compared, and, if necessary, recalibrated using the real-world data. The study contains a spreadsheet-based tool for managing pavement which could be of interest to anyone looking to either implement a similar tool, or justify the expense of detailed pavement monitoring data.