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This guide provides considerable background information about Transportation Asset Management (TAM), the advantages of using TAM, and an approach that agencies can use to identify where they are now and where they should focus their asset management efforts. The guide aims to stimulate transportation agencies in addressing strategic questions as they confront the task of managing and overhauling America's surface transportation system, such as: 1. What do we want to accomplish and why? 2. What Alternatives are available for changing the current business model to achieve these objections? 3. What resources are available to succeed in this mission? 4. How do we measure success? The guide is presented in 3 major parts: Part 1 focuses on organizing and leading TAM. This would be of most interest to executive management. Part 2 focuses on processes, tools, systems, and data. This part would be of most interest to practitioners. Appendices include examples of assess management plans and four in-depth case studies of local and international agencies' experiences in implementing TAM.
The executive summary can be downloaded directly at: http://www.tam-portal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/TAMGFI-ES-whole.pdf.
The complete guide can be purchased from the AASHTO Bookstore at https://bookstore.transportation.org/collection_detail.aspx?ID=100.

The Rangitikei Council's 2011 TAMP includes descriptions of the strategic environment, activity management practices, asset management practices, asset management plan assumptions, and improvement to asset management planning. These second part of the plan provides a detailed review of transportation asset types with an overview, description of levels of service, a routine maintenance plan, and a renewal/replacement plan. Risk management is considered for pavement and bridge assets.

The New Zealand Transport Agency's 2011 Asset Management Plan (AMP) includes a framework for the document that depicts each section and the relationship to other sections and to the plan as a whole. The AMP also includes a statement of intent, covering a list of desired impacts, with key progress indicators and targets for the agency.

Case study of UTA's asset management, a risk-based approach.

Developing a Transit Inventory/Database - RTA's Practices and Plans, presented at the Third State of Good Repair Roundtable.

An article which addresses the underdevelopment of tools and practices for the geotechnical sector of the transportation asset management world.

A guide to leading an asset management program with a strong infrastructure.

A report documenting the development of a biobjective optimization model for planning maintenance and renewal decisions related to track geometry.

This report proposes methods for pavement preservation on high-traffic-volume roadways.

A report that describes how pavement preservation can serve as a solution for sustainability.

Based on geographic information systems, an index for estimating road vulnerability to damage from overweight vehicles was developed for the North Carolina Department of Transportation. Its development is described in this report.

This report describes the development of a generalized framework for developing a corridor-level infrastructure health index.