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This presentation focuses on the training necessary for adequate performance management at State DOTs and the advantages of a stable culture can provide. Ideally, a team works synergistically to produce a product greater than the sum of its part. However, this becomes possible only when the members of the team possess diverse and varied skillsets. The video slides are available here.

While the integration of transportation asset management has grown in recent decades, more transportation agencies are adopting TAM practices following the passage of the MAP-21 legislation. This presentation explores some of the challenges of TAM adoption including system integration and the communication of results.

This webinar addressed organizational frameworks for transportation asset management. Webinar speakers described how different organizational frameworks support alignment of organizational units, systems, and data for transportation asset management. Topics covered included the importance of leadership, recruiting, retention, and staff development. Presentations highlighted strengths and limitations of specific organizational frameworks and lessons learned from implementation.

This presentation is focused on defining and explaining cross-asset decision making. This is the idea that investments are allocated by analyzing the perceived needs of multiple programs and asset classes and are distributed based upon the simultaneous quantified prioritization of utility. It focuses on three types–benefit/cost analysis, multi-criteria decision analysis, and risk/reward-based. The presentation slides are available here.

This presentation focuses on transportation asset management and its likely rise to prominence in the near future. It explains that transportation asset management practices are applicable at all levels of transportation management and can improve efficiency and decision making. The slides are available here.

This webinar will review currently available and recently released transportation asset management tools and resources. Presentations will cover a range of materials available to practitioners including: AASHTO's TAM Gap Analysis tool developed through NCHRP Project 08-90; the GIS and Asset Management Guide developed through NCHRP Project 08-87; AASHTO'S TAM Tools; and applications of asset management and risk management standards including ISO 55000 and J100-10/RAMCAP.

This webinar is designed to highlight the potential to improve DOT asset management practice and operational performance through a focus on data acquisition and collection. Representatives from state DOTs will discuss their agencies' efforts in this area including new technologies for data collection and alternatives to traditional asset data collection. Data acquisition rather than collection can provide insight into noteworthy practices and strategies for success.

This webinar explores the relationship between an agency's transportation asset management plan and its other plans, including: the long-range transportation plan, safety plan, freight plan, and more. Presentations from transportation practitioners will include practical examples of successful coordination across plans. This webinar complements and expands upon the recent AASHTO/FHWA TAM webinar addressing transportation asset management in the context of the performance-based planning process.

This video continues a series of public involvement videos Iowa DOT created to help explain how and why the agency does things during the public involvement portion of the project development process.

Traditionally, agency investment decisions have focused on individual projects that address the needs of a single asset, such as a pavement or bridge. As agencies have advanced their asset management practices, there has been increasing interest in establishing investment strategies that cross the traditional silos. During this webinar, the TAM ETG will present its White Paper on the topic and delve into this topic in detail with a panel of state DOT executives. The presentation slides are here.

This webinar provides an introduction to transportation asset management data needs, issues, and governance. Organized around a series of state DOT cases, the webinar is designed to highlight the potential to improve DOT asset management practice and operational performance through a focus on data and data management. Representatives from state DOTs discuss their agencies' efforts in this area, providing insight into the challenges encountered and strategies for success. State DOTs presenting include Maryland SHA, Iowa DOT, and Ohio DOT.

This webinar builds on the previous webinars by providing an opportunity for transportation agencies to share their experiences with conducting network-level life cycle analysis, including how the results of the analysis have influenced their investment strategies.
The slides for this presentation are available for each part: introduction, Michigan DOT, Ohio DOT, and Seattle DOT

This webinar complements and expands upon the webinar first held on October 8, 2014, which provided an introduction to transportation asset management financial plans in the context of MAP-21. Representatives from US and international transportation agencies offer new perspectives on the challenges and the benefits of developing a transportation asset management financial plan. This follow-up webinar highlights agency outcomes and lessons-learned since the conclusion of the Part I webinar.

The TAM Expert Task group was established to serve as a forum to discuss changes in the way highway agencies are managing assets. This webinar addressing Network Life Cycle Cost Analysis is the third in a series of six webinars. The slides from the webinar can be downloaded via the links below:

• Introductory slides
• Life Cycle Costing for Pavements - Kirby Becker, MnDOT
• Life Cycle Cost Analysis in Bridge Management - Paul Thompson, Consultant
  
• Financial Plans Supporting Life Cycle Costs - Shobna Varma, Starisis Corporation
  

The second in a series of asset management webinars sponsored by the FHWA transportation asset management Expert Task Group. View the webinar slides here.