Linking Asset Management to Strategic Planning Processes: Best Practices from State Departments of Transportation

Pagano, Anthony M.; McNeil, Sue; Ogard, Elizabeth

doi:10.3141/1924-23

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“…The data must be compared against a benchmark or a standard. A gap or deficiency analysis can be used to identify large gaps between performance and standards and can be used to systematically manage and monitor the problem areas of a network (9).…”

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Using Risk Analysis to Prioritize Intelligent Transport Systems

Johnston

Ferreira

Bunker

2006

Transportation Research Record

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With perpetual strains on resources, road agencies need to develop network-level decision-making frameworks to ensure optimum resource allocation. This is especially true for intelligent transport systems (ITS) and, in particular, variable message signs (VMSs), a key component of incident management services. The objective for VMSs is to minimize the safety, efficiency, reliability, and environmental impact of incidents on the operations of the transport system. This may be achieved by travelers being informed of the incidents so they can adapt their behavior in a manner that reduces community impact, such as lateness and the associated vehicle emissions, unreliability of travel times, and secondary accidents due to incidents. Generally, road authorities carry out needs assessments, but qualitatively in many cases. Therefore, a framework is presented that is systematic, quantitative, and relatively easy to implement. A risk management approach that focuses on minimizing the impact on and costs to the community was taken to prioritize VMS infrastructure deployment. In the presented framework and case study, safety, efficiency, reliability, and environmental effects are quantified by using an economic risk management approach to determine an overall risk score. This score can be used to rank road sections within the network, indicating the road sections with the highest risk of incident network impact and therefore the road sections with the highest need for intervention. A cost-effectiveness-based risk reduction ranking can then be determined for VMS, with the net risk with treatment being compared with that without treatment, and the net present value of deployment being divided. The two types of ranking, pure risk and cost-effectiveness–based risk reduction, will help to minimize the network impact on the community and optimize resource allocation.

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Using Risk Analysis to Prioritize Intelligent Transport Systems

Johnston

Ferreira

Bunker

2006

Transportation Research Record

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“…Performance management has been growing in sophistication and as a means to improving the performance and responsiveness of publicservice agencies in many countries (1). Performance management in the transport sector is relatively new but has found several applications, particularly in the fields of asset management and network management (2,3). Implementing comprehensive performance management processes across the full range of activities of state-or citywide planning bodies, however, remains much more of a challenge where multiple objectives exist, sometimes in conflict.…”

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Impacts of Performance Management on Transport Planning Organizations

Marsden

2009

Transportation Research Record

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How can public sector organizations that are dependent on public funding, but expected to perform more like the best performing private sector organizations, adapt, modify and adjust themselves to meet the demands of key stakeholders and thereby maintain and increase levels of funding? This paper reviews the experience of local government in England where just such a transformation has been brought forward in the last decade. Since 2001, Local Transport Authorities have been required to develop a five year transport strategy with a series of key performance indicators and to set targets to be achieved. Over the past five years the levels of funding awarded to these authorities has been varied according to factors including the quality of the plan, the robustness of the analysis underpinning projections, the delivery of planned schemes and the achievement of the targets set.The paper presents the findings of two research projects conducted over the period 2003 to 2008 in collaboration with 20 local transport authorities. It describes the nature of the planning system which has brought about the organisational change. It then provides, on the basis of the research, a series of advantages and disadvantages which the new system has generated before presenting some of the solutions which have been developed to reduce the downsides. Some conclusions about the role of performance management and rewards and organisational targets are drawn both for the managing and participating agencies.

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Network Level Data Collection for Asset Management of Bridge Approach Slabs

Gabr¹,

Park²

2014

Geo-Congress 2014 Technical Papers

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Linking Asset Management to Strategic Planning Processes: Best Practices from State Departments of Transportation

Cited by 6 publications

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Using Risk Analysis to Prioritize Intelligent Transport Systems

Using Risk Analysis to Prioritize Intelligent Transport Systems

Impacts of Performance Management on Transport Planning Organizations

Network Level Data Collection for Asset Management of Bridge Approach Slabs

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