Synthesis of Information Related to Highway Practices. Topic 55-19. Documenting the State of Practice in Managing Ancillary Transportation Assets

State departments of transportation (DOTs) are increasingly expanding transportation asset management programs beyond pavements and bridges, by including selected ancillary transportation assets. Example ancillary transportation assets include (but are not limited to): Hydraulic structures (e.g. culverts, drainage systems); Overhead sign and signal structures and signal systems; Bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure (e.g. sidewalks and curb ramps); Intelligent transportation systems and communications infrastructure; High mast and highway light poles; Traffic barriers (e.g. guardrail); Earth retaining structures;Sign panels and supports; and Building facilities. Management of ancillary transportation assets may be described in state DOTs recently completed and certified transportation asset management plans (TAMPs) and/or in other formal and informal documentation. While research has explored data collection, asset management, and data storage and use for the management of ancillary assets, it is unknown to what extent state agencies have implemented and used these resources for asset management. The objective of this synthesis is to document practices used by state DOTs for managing selected ancillary transportation assets, including levels of maturity and variability of practice across state DOTs.

• Record URL:
  http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=5482

Language

• English

Project

• Funding: $55000
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 20-05, Topic 55-19

• 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:

  Larson, Sandra

• Performing Organizations:
  ,   Germany 

  Blue CyClone, LLC

  City,   United States 
• Principal Investigators:

  Sturgill, Roy

• Start Date: 20240723
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Asset management; Life cycle costing; State departments of transportation; State of the practice
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Maintenance and Preservation; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01886948
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 20-05, Topic 55-19
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Jul 3 2023 10:10AM