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The Austroads Road Asset Data Standard provides road agencies and their suppliers in Australia and New Zealand with a specification for the data that supports common operational activities. The Data Standard also provides road network funding agencies with a specification to inform structure of reports and submissions requested from road agencies, to enable more equitable evidence-based investment decision-making. Specifically, the Standard establishes a common understanding of the meaning or semantics of the data to ensure appropriate use and interpretation of the data by its stakeholders.

The Fall 2022 issue is focused on emerging performance areas, and features the following articles and content:

• Welcome from the AASHTO CPBM Chair
• Next Generation of Performance Management: New Task Force on Emerging Performance Areas
• MassDOT Destination Accessibility Measurement and Application
• Advancing Transportation Equity in Minnesota
• AASHTO Updates
• Writing a 'Good' Risk Statement
• Featured Transportation Research
• Save the Date
• Get Involved in a CPBM Subcommittee or Work Group

This guide is intended to help agencies develop and maintain a transportation workforce in the areas of design, construction, and maintenance, including processes for analyzing an agency's unique workforce needs.

This 2022 Transportation Asset Management Plan (TAMP) provides updates to the Transportation Asset Management Plan certified by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) in August 2019. This 2022 TAMP includes NHS pavements and bridges, DDOT‐maintained non‐NHS pavements (i.e., local roads and federal‐aid roads), non‐NHS bridges (including pedestrian bridges), tunnels, alleys, and sidewalks. While DDOT has attempted to develop a comprehensive TAMP including other assets, the analysis in this TAMP has been limited to assets which have sufficient data and information. As such, additional assets beyond the NHS pavement and bridges are not to be considered part of the TAMP recertification process.

Life-cycle planning (LCP) is an integral part of the transportation asset management (TAM) framework. LCP is a process that estimates the full cost of managing an asset over its anticipated useful life. It is a practice based on economic and engineering principles to facilitate the development of a life-cycle activity plan for a given asset that balances costs, risks, and expected performance. This report from TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program, provides transportation planning and engineering professionals with a guide to the implementation of LCP analysis to support TAM.

CTDOT's 2022 Highway Transportation Asset Management Plan goes beyond federal requirements by including nine additional assets, four of which are new assets since the 2019 Highway Transportation Asset Management Plan. This plan also expands the road and bridge networks under consideration from the National Highway System to the entire state highway system.

Efforts to define and collect bridge element data in the U.S. began in the late 1990s when bridge management systems were first developed and implemented. Since then, ongoing feedback from the bridge management community has led to refinements in the inspection methodology. NCHRP Synthesis 585, published by the TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program, documents how state DOTs gather and ensure the accuracy of element-level data. It also explores how these agencies utilize inspection report data.

This TAM Strategic Action Plan establishes a common agenda for advancing TAM knowledge and practice for the American Association of Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Committee on Performance- Based Management (CPBM) Subcommittee on Asset Management, in coordination with the Subcommittee’s partners and stakeholders.

A 2019 TAM Strategic Planning Workshop, held on October 17-18, 2019 in Irvine, California, provided the foundation for the AASHTO CPBM TAM Subcommittee – TAM Strategic Action Plan. With over 45 attendees representing more than 35 organizations, the discussions brought together many voices and perspectives to identify, define, and prioritize the specific opportunities for TAM advancements that will deliver real value to transportation agencies.

A full research report is available at: https://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/nchrp/docs/NCHRP20-123-01FinalReport.pdf.

This plan is the tentative version of Alaska's upcoming Long Range Plan, released for public comment before the finalized plan is released. This plan embodies the long-range vision, policies and objectives that will guide Alaska’s transportation development for the next 20-year period. When Alaska Moves 2050 is completed in the fall of 2022, it will supersede the previous plan Let's Keep Moving 2036.

The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) created this Public Transportation Transit Asset Management Plan (PT-TAMP) to summarize CTDOT’s transit assets, lay out the agency’s asset management processes, and identify priority SGR investments. The PT-TAMP enhances CTDOT’s ability to communicate with the Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) and State Legislators regarding the performance of the existing transit system and benefits of strategic investments to achieve and maintain the system in SGR.

The Commonwealth of Virginia has developed and implemented a risk-based asset management plan in accordance with the federal requirements of 23 U.S.C. 119 for the National Highway System (NHS). This Transportation Asset Management Plan (TAMP) presents current pavement and bridge inventory and conditions; the Commonwealth of Virginia’s performance objectives, measures, and associated risks; and the Commonwealth’s asset funding and investment strategies, forecasts, goals, and gaps. The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) updated and recertified the 2019 TAMP.

This Plan provides a solid foundation for making informed pavement and bridge infrastructure planning and programming decisions for the next 10 years. The benefits of this plan are critical in developing a process for the State to achieve and sustain a state of good repair over the life cycle of its pavement and bridge assets. With this update, the Management Systems and the Plan incorporate resilience measures to increase the resiliency of the transportation system to existing and future risks.