Guide to the Integration of Transportation Systems Management and Operations into Transportation Asset Management

Transportation asset management plans (TAMPs) are important tools for tracking the performance of key assets over time, predicting the life-cycle costs of these assets, and calculating the risks that may be presented when an asset fails to perform as intended. As such, the data within TAMPs are important inputs to federally mandated performance management including calculations of travel time reliability, air quality, and congestion management performance measures. Additionally, TAMPs are integral inputs to capital funding decision-making. Since the early adoption of transportation asset management (TAM) practices and the related performance rulemaking, state departments of transportation (DOTs) have sought to add assets beyond pavements and bridges to their risk-based TAMPs. The rapid evolution of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) has introduced a wide array of technical assets into transportation systems management and operations (TSMO). These assets have become critical components in managing the transportation network including communications and security technology, sensors, cameras, and other ITS technologies. As such, the function and condition of these assets directly impact the performance of other network physical infrastructure assets such as bridges and pavement. Therefore, there is a need to integrate these assets into TAMPs as an important means of managing these systems and ensuring a good state of operation. One of the principle challenges in integrating TSMO into TAM is identifying and quantifying the condition of individual TSMO-related assets and measuring the assets against intended performance outcomes. These assets may include software, computer networks, communications, and hardware such as inductive loops and cameras used for detecting vehicles and travelers and variable message signs (VMS) used to communicate directly with travelers. These assets may fail suddenly or through functional obsolescence rather than by gradual deterioration in their physical condition (as is typical for highways and bridges). Furthermore, while the effective operation of these technical assets as systems directly affects the operational performance of transportation hardscape such highways and bridges, quantifying the physical condition of individual ITS assets is more complex than for bridges and pavement. To better manage, operate, plan, and invest in TSMO-related assets, state DOTs and local agencies need direction on how to effectively integrate these assets into asset management processes and plans. The objective of this research is to develop a guide for state DOTs and other agencies on the integration of TSMO assets into TAMP processes and plans. The research should identify the anticipated (measurable) benefits of TSMO and TAM integration and provide practical instruction on the application of proven and emerging methods, policies, and processes for identifying and integrating appropriate TSMO assets into TAM processes.

• Record URL:
  http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=4949

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $500000
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 08-138

• Sponsor Organizations:

  National Cooperative Highway Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

  444 North Capitol Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Weeks, Jennifer

• Performing Organizations:

  WSP USA

  One Penn Plaza
  250 W 34th Street
  New York, New York  United States  10119
• Principal Investigators:

  Giordano, Reno

• Start Date: 20230830
• Expected Completion Date: 20251230
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Asset management; Guidelines; State departments of transportation; Transportation operations; Transportation planning; Transportation system management
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01739643
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 08-138
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: May 20 2020 3:12PM