Document Library

This issue of TAMNews from July 2016 includes an overview of the newly published Final TAM Rule and the motivations and requirements of TAM Rule.

This guide provides informational support for organization leaders who seek to create a culture of continuous improvement. It focuses on leadership behaviors and methodologies that are targeted to empower every employee in a business.

The CTP 2040 provides a common vision, and a set of supporting goals, policies, and recommendations to guide future transportation related decisions and investments to achieve a fully integrated, sustainable, multimodal transportation system that provides for the safe and efficient flow of people, goods, and services throughout California. The CTP 2040 is a product of an open and collaborative approach with the State's transportation partners and stakeholders, and is the result of an extensive, multi-faceted public engagement process that responds to federal and State laws and regulations that emphasize public engagement.

This issue of TAMNews from Summer 2016 discusses Asset Management Business Practices, including an overview of TAM at the MBTA. The overview covers a history of the MBTA and its TAM plan as well as goals and objectives of the MBTA in its ongoing asset management process.

This strategy plan describes how Highway England plans to use Lean methods to deliver their Road Investment Strategy efficiently in addition to improving customer service safely.

This article examines how state DOTs can achieve a working priority scheme for the maintenance of their highway and road infrastructure. It describes how the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) balances its highway maintenance obligations through various transfers to local governments as well as other negotiations. Researchers in GDOT’s Office of Transportation Data (OTD) sought to develop a highway prioritization system by creating the criteria to determine which routes would have higher or lower priority. The OTD developed criteria by holding meetings with GDOT officials for input, determining what data was available, and examining the existing maps and data. They ultimately categorized state routes into four priority levels–Critical, High, Medium, and Low–each of which contains a number of road types (e.g. Critical state routes include interstates, intermodal connectors, and national/state freight corridors).

This primer provides an introduction and background to shared mobility; discusses the government’s role; reviews success stories; examines challenges, lessons learned, and proposed solutions; and concludes with guiding principles for public agencies. The primer provides an overview of current practices in this emerging field, and it also looks toward the future in the evolution and development of shared mobility.

This research project explored the utilization of GDOT’s existing videolog and pavement imaging data for extracting guardrails, rumble strips, and traffic signs. Image-processing-based algorithms were developed, which were tested using both GDOT’s videolog images and the data collected by using the Georgia Tech Sensing Vehicle (GTSV).

The objective of this project is to validate the use of commercial remote sensing and spatial information (CRS&SI) technologies, including emerging 3D line laser imaging technology, mobile LiDAR, image processing algorithms, and GPS/GIS technologies, to improve the transportation asset data collection, condition assessment, and management. Traffic sign asset and pavement asset were used for validation.

As one of the most popular preventive maintenance methods, crack sealing and filling (CS/CF) has been widely used by state highway agencies. Due to stringent highway budgets and the lack of work forces in state highway agencies, it is urgent that CS/CF, as well as other types of pavement preservation methods, be incorporated in a pavement management system (PMS). For this purpose, this research project proposed a systematic framework to study the cost-effectiveness of CS/CF and incorporate CS/CF planning in a PMS.

This final synthesis was published under NCHRP project 20-05(39-13) as NCHRP Synthesis 408. The synthesis outlines the history and current findings on pavement marking warranty specifications, and may be viewed here.

An NCHRP research project which developed the Guide to Maintenance Condition Assessment Systems. The guide provides recommendations for creating, planning, and improving a maintenance condition assessment system.