Optimizing Maintenance Equipment Life Cycle for Local Agencies

The project has seven objectives to accomplish the ultimate goal of providing guidance for local agencies to determine the most cost-effective decisions throughout the life cycle of a variety of maintenance equipment. (a) Identify current practices and the most effective practices; (b) Collect and analyze equipment related data from local agencies including initial purchase price, actual hours of usage, maintenance and repair costs, fuel consumption, etc.; (c) Develop a comprehensive framework to assess the values of repairing, replacing, or retaining a given piece of equipment to generate the options available to the equipment manager. The methodology will minimize the life-cycle cost of equipment fleet; (d) Develop a spreadsheet based decision aid tool for selecting the most appropriate option that can be used by local agencies in a stand-alone mode or in conjunction with other parameters currently in use; (e) Conduct case studies using the tool developed in this project and validate the tool; (f) Develop a guide on equipment record keeping practices; and (g) Train local agency engineers for rapid dissemination of the tool.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Contract to a Performing Organization has not yet been awarded.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $172590
• Contract Numbers:

  Addendum 613

  TR-727

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Iowa Department of Transportation

  800 Lincoln Way
  Ames, IA  United States  50010
• Principal Investigators:

  Jeong, David

• Start Date: 20170601
• Expected Completion Date: 20190731
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Decision support systems; Guidelines; Highway maintenance; Life cycle costing; Maintenance equipment; Optimization; Transportation departments
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01645249
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Iowa Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: Addendum 613, TR-727
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Aug 30 2017 3:18PM