Browsing Midwest Regional University Transportation Center by Subject "Asset management"
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An asset management approach for drainage infrastructure and culverts
(Midwest Regional University Transportation Center, 2008-06)Drainage infrastructure systems (culvert, storm sewer, outfall and related drainage elements) are mostly buried underground and are in need of special attention in terms of proactive/preventive asset management strategy. ... -
Best practices for linking strategic goals to resource allocation and implementation decisions
(Midwest Regional University Transportation Center, 2004-03)The research described in this report assembles a set of tools based on experiences and best practices in a diverse set of states for linking strategic goals to resource allocation and implementation decisions using aspects ... -
Capital preventive maintenance
(Midwest Regional University Transportation Center, 2004-02)The purpose of this guidebook is to offer a process for managers to follow that will assist in overcoming various perceived limitations currently preventing initiation or expansion of preventive maintenance efforts at ... -
Documenting training opportunities related to transportation asset management
(Midwest Regional University Transportation Center, 2005-10)Many public agencies are now seeking training in the concepts, tools and processes of Transportation Asset Management. Some are creating their own training materials. Some are relying on vendors. Others rely on public ... -
Evaluation of near-transportation private sector asset management practices
(Midwest Regional University Transportation Center, 2002-11)The focus of the transportation industry, both in the public and private sectors, has slowly been changing from construction and expansion to that of preservation because of various factors. The private sector industries ... -
Maintenance quality assurance : synthesis of measures
(Midwest Regional University Transportation Center, 2005-08)Constrained budgets and reduced funding are causing state transportation agencies to re-evaluate spending and allocations for maintenance. Much attention is being placed on accounting for maintenance expenditures and ... -
Maintenance quality assurance peer exchange 2
(Midwest Regional University Transportation Center, 2009-04)This report documents a comprehensive study of twenty three maintenance quality assurance (MQA) programs throughout the United States and Canada. The policies and standards of each program were synthesized to create a ... -
Meaningful use of collected local roads data and information
(Midwest Regional University Transportation Center, 2008-03)There are more than 39,000 local agencies managing 2,000,000 miles of roads throughout the United States. The responsibility for such an immense infrastructure network in a time of limited resources demands the application ... -
Measuring the benefits of implementing asset management systems and tools
(Midwest Regional University Transportation Center, 2008-09)Although transportation agencies in the U.S. have been developing Asset Management Systems (AMS) for specific types of infrastructure assets, there are several barriers to the implementation of AMS. This paper documents ... -
A methodology for integrating roadway safety hardware management into the overall highway asset management program
(Midwest Regional University Transportation Center, 2008-06)Over the past two decades, state transportation agencies have developed management systems as analytical tools to support investment decision-making in Statewide Transportation Improvement Programs (STIP) and long-range ... -
Optimal investment decision-making for highway transportation asset management under risk and certainty
(Midwest Regional University Transportation Center, 2007-09)Efficient highway investment decision-making becomes increasingly important in transportation. In order to facilitate such a decision process, first issue is to estimate benefits of highway projects and utilize those values ... -
Optimal resource allocation for the purchase of new buses and the rebuilding of existing buses as a part of a transit asset management strategy for state DOTs
(Midwest Regional University Transportation Center, 2003-02)State Departments of Transportation (DOT) that provide much of the matching support to local transit agencies required for federal funding for the purchase of new buses, are duly concerned about the escalating costs of ... -
Optimizing investments with the Sawyer County/Lac Courte Oreilles transit system
(2008-09)Utilizing Lac Courte Oreilles (LCO) Casino revenue, the LCO Transit Committee has worked with Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College (LCOOCC) students and other community partners/volunteers to implement a joint mass ... -
A regional traffic simulation/assignment model for evaluation of transit performance and asset utilization: time dependent multimodal and intermodal assignment models
(Midwest Regional University Transportation Center, 2004-02)This report presents three approaches to modeling multimodal and intermodal transportation network problems for evaluation of transit performance and asset management. The first approach is an automobile assignment-based ... -
Synthesis of best practices for the development of an integrated data and information management approach
(Midwest Regional University Transportation Center, 2008-09)State transportation agencies deal with numerous technical and organizational challenges in building integrated data and information systems to provide high-quality information for supporting analysis, control and decision ... -
Synthesis of national efforts in transportation asset management
(Midwest Regional University Transportation Center, 2002-05)In the Fall of 2001, the Midwest Regional University Transportation Center (University of Wisconsin, Madison) conducted a survey of national efforts in Transportation Asset Management. The organizations and efforts ... -
A systematic process for using federal aid to support bridge preventive maintenance
(Midwest Regional University Transportation Center, 2008-11)Preventive maintenance (PM) is recognized as a cost?effective way to preserve the investment in and service life of highway bridges. State agencies, including Wisconsin, are performing bridge PM projects. SAFETEA-LU 23 ... -
Traffic operations asset management systems (TOAMS)
(Midwest Regional University Transportation Center, 2008-08)The efforts in promoting traffic operations asset management systems (TOAMS) face significant difficulties. Two fundamental reasons explain this situation. First, asset management principles have been continuously developed ... -
Transportation asset management for local government agencies : threshold levels and best practice guide
(Midwest Regional University Transportation Center, 2006-05)The Federal Highway Administration defines transportation asset management as "a systematic process of operating, maintaining, and upgrading infrastructure cost-effectively." The objective of this report is to help county ... -
Use of functional silos to optimize agency decision making
(Midwest Regional University Transportation Center, 2008-02)The purpose of the project was to document how agencies make positive use of functional silos and then efficiently allocate resources across them. Functional silos are considered to be any group of expertise within a ...