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This report updates the Critical Issues in Transportation 2019, placing a renewed focus on correcting racial and social inequalities in the US transportation system and scrutinizing the systemic racism the transportation enterprise contains. While equity was mentioned in the 2018 report, the Black Lives Matter movement of 2020 and 2021 shed light on the breadth and depth of the social problems in the US. This report covers five areas of focus: access to transportation; institutional issues and decision-making; equity in planning and public participation; land use, affordable housing, and displacement; and Native American equity challenges.

This UN/DESA-UNCDF Handbook brings global visibility to infrastructure asset management as a critical, high impact area for investing in local capacities to mobilize and manage financing for sustainable development, including in emergencies. Old assets often go neglected, while new ones are built without putting in place effective asset management frameworks. Underinvestment in infrastructure maintenance has been estimated to cost some developing countries up to 2 per cent growth in GDP.
The Handbook calls national and local governments to action and provides them with guidance on how to ensure the resilience, sustainability and accessibility of existing and planned infrastructure investments. It contains practical tools to improve infrastructure asset management, plus recommendations on how to adapt them to socio-economic and environmental challenges, including climate change and public health emergencies.

This guide contains a self-assessment tool for gauging the status of transportation system resilience by incorporating resilience concepts into the decision-making framework.

The objective of this research is to develop a guidebook presenting principles, organizational strategies, governance mechanisms, and practical examples for improving management of the processes for collecting data, developing useful information, and providing that information for decision making about management of the transportation system assets. The guide comprises a pre-assessment, a guided self-assessment, an evaluation of the results, and implementation support. Additionally it includes a glossary of key terms and case studies highlighting different parts of the process.

To access the online version of this report, please click here.

NCHRP 20-44(22) included pilot applications of the right-sizing guidance in four states: Utah, Iowa, Georgia, and North Carolina. Transportation agencies in these four states had proposed specific implementation efforts to either test or fully integrate the recommended methods and techniques of NCHRP Report 917 into their decision support, planning and programming and overall investment management practices. The research team also developed a Right-Sizing Implementation Playbook to provide easy-to-use first-steps for agencies to implement right-sizing.

Arizona’s economic competitiveness, quality of life and travel safety depend on the successful management of the State’s highway assets. This risk-based Transportation Asset Management Plan (TAMP) documents a systematic approach for maintaining and improving the Arizona Department of Transportation’s (ADOT) bridges and pavements. The objective is to develop data- oriented investment strategies to achieve the desired state of good repair over the life cycle of assets. These asset management practices help ensure that ADOT can provide dependable and efficient operation of its transportation network to improve Arizona’s economic competitiveness, quality of life and safety of the traveling public.

This document is an updated version of the NCDOT 2019 TAMP.

The Spring 2021 issue of the TPM Newsletter is focused on transportation asset management (TAM) and performance management and features the following articles and content:

• Welcome from the AASHTO CPBM Vice Chair
• TAM: It’s How We Do Business
• PIARC: Taking It International
• MoDOT’s Partner Collaboration - Stronger Every Year
• Featured Transportation Asset Management Research
• Save the Date
• Staffing Changes
• FHWA State Performance Dashboard and Reports
• Get Involved in a CPBM Subcommittee or Work Group
• TAM Online Training Flyer

This report supports the evaluation of pavement treatments for road preservation and renewal by presenting a relevant framework, practices, and tools. Though targeted toward sprayed-seal flexible pavements, the findings in this report may be applied more broadly to all areas of asset management. A series of case studies in this report demonstrate among other things the importance of active intervention, justifications for different LOS, and the additional benefit of safety features in treatments.

Explores the challenges and issues facing the reauthorization of the Federal Public Transportation Program as a part of the FAST Act. This legislation was given a one-year extension through September 2021, but will need to be reauthorized to continue further. These challenges center around the declining ridership due to population trends and the covid-19 pandemic.

Public-private partnerships (P3) offer transportation agencies a method for designing, building, operating, and maintaining their assets without having to wait for government funding. To ensure contract compliance and performance, agencies use a variety of different metrics to monitor their P3 contracts. Metrics usually fall into two main categories: quantifying asset performance and project implementation. This report presents such metrics used by DOTs. Data was sourced from a survey of 26 DOTs and interviews with DOT personnel on six P3 projects.

In this report, Austroads presents and analyzes technological solutions for data collection used to improve pavement performance. The report also develops a technology evaluation framework that may be used by agencies to weigh the benefits and limits of new technology. The main sections of this report are as follows:

• Asset Management Data Needs
• Network Performance Indicators
• Current Data Collection Technologies
• Emerging Data Collection Technologies

A webinar introducing the report is also available from the resource URL.