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"When targets matter, they drive transportation agency decisions and actions."

The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 993, titled "Managing Performance to Enhance Decision-Making: Making Targets Matter," presents various feedback enhancement strategies. It includes case studies demonstrating how agencies successfully integrate feedback based on data and people into their decision-making processes. These processes span long-term strategic planning, medium-term program development, and daily operations.

This article, published by the Environmental Protection Agency, answers questions surrounding six common myths about electric vehicles. It provides straightforward answers and offers up additional resources for further investigation. The six myths are:

• Myth #1: Electric vehicles are worse for the climate than gasoline cars because of the power plant emissions.
• Myth #2: Electric vehicles don’t have enough range to handle daily travel demands.
• Myth #3: Electric vehicles only come as sedans.
• Myth #4: There is nowhere to charge.
• Myth #5: Electric vehicles are worse for the climate than gasoline cars because of battery manufacturing.
• Myth #6: Electric vehicles are not as safe as comparable gasoline vehicles.

MoDOT's TAMP establishes the formal approaches to meeting evolving federal guidance with respect to National Highway System pavements and bridges. The plan demonstrates the clear linkages between maintenance and planning efforts and documents financial planning, risk management, inspection and budgeting processes. The plan assists the agency in making decisions about where and when to invest funds in infrastructure improvements.

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) 2022 Transportation Asset Management Plan (TAMP) presents a 10-year strategy for managing the state’s pavements and bridges. TxDOT has constructed, maintains, and inspects the largest network of pavements, bridges, and other assets in the country. The TAMP details TxDOT’s asset management approach and describes the condition of the transportation system, future investment plans, potential risks to effective operation of the network, the relationship between federal and state condition goals, and TxDOT’s success in addressing those goals.

This TAMP’s primary purpose is to establish and communicate WSDOT’s asset management process and organizational framework as part of the National Highway System (NHS). Only pavements and bridges are included in this TAMP. Additionally, results from processes such as gap analysis, trade-off comparisons, life cycle planning, and risk management are included.

NMDOT's 2022 TAMP provides an assessment of the condition of pavements and bridges on the Interstate and National Highway System and identifies future performance gaps based on current and anticipated finances and asset conditions. It also includes a description of the project selection process, how cost estimates are determined, the details of NMDOT’s financial plan, and an assessment of the risks inherent in managing such an expansive set of assets.

Oregon’s TAMP documents information about Oregon’s National Highway System (NHS) pavement and bridge assets, their condition, use and performance, the processes by which they are managed, and results of alternative management practices and investment decisions.

The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) has developed a TAMP with the goal is to achieve and sustain a desired state of good repair over the life cycle of the assets at a practical cost. The 10-year outlook of the 2022 TAMP streamlines with INDOT's 20-year plan to fully fund the asset management plan for bridges, large culverts, and roads.

This study considers existing intelligent highways components, such as sensors and remote surveys, and the data they collect, and how their use might be expanded to other purposes, such as incident response.

Georgia’s Transportation Asset Management Plan (TAMP) defines the condition of the state’s pavements and bridge structures, including culverts longer than 20 feet, on the National Highway System (NHS). This TAMP outlines the priorities and strategies used to cost effectively manage and preserve these assets over the next 10 years, deploying transportation asset management (TAM) and risk principles to make better data-based investment decisions in GDOT's existing infrastructure.

This publication documents the proceedings of the 71st Highway Geology Symposium held in 2022. A Geotechnical Asset Management Peer Exchange, "Obstacles and Opportunities Recognized Through Geotechnical Asset Management Implementation," was held. The Geotechnical Asset Management Subcommittee met for the following presentations: "North Carolina DOT’s Resiliency Program"; "Efforts to Quantify the Benefits of Implementing Resilience Measures for Geologic Hazards in Colorado"; "Observable effects on vulnerable highways: Examples from Alaska"; "Washington DOT Resiliency Efforts"; a summary of an FHWA peer exchange on resilience programs and their effects on asset management programs; and "Tools to understand asset inventory, condition, and threats to resilience."

In addition to satisfying a federal requirement, this TAMP serves as an important communication and accountability tool that will guide NDOT’s investments in pavement, bridge, and ITS preservation over 10 years. The TAMP summarizes the pavement, bridge, and ITS assets that NDOT maintains, providing information about the asset inventory and condition. In addition, the document describes the performance metrics that are used to monitor the performance of these assets. Using life cycle planning, the TAMP illustrates the cost-effectiveness of timely preservation activities and the costly consequences if these activities are deferred. In addition to costs, the TAMP considers the potential risks that NDOT faces while managing assets that continue to age and deteriorate in an unpredictable environment.