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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 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 ...
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 ...