Tiêu chuẩn quốc tế

• Số hiệu / Standard Number: AASHTO TAMG:2002
• Năm ban hành / Publication date: 2002
• Tình trạng / Status: A - Còn hiệu lực
• Tên tiếng Anh / Title in English: Transportation Asset Management Guide
• Số trang / Page: 139

Phạm vi áp dụng / Scope of standard

Foreword: The Guide is designed to help agencies develop and
apply the principles, techniques, and tools that can advance the
management of their transportation assets.

The overall management framework that has been developed in this
study is flexible enough to be adapted and refined for use with,
respectively, each type of transportation agency asset listed
above. To develop the depth as well as breadth of material needed
to build a meaningful first-edition Transportation Asset Management
Guide, however, the scope of this study has focused on the
particular set of assets that constitutes an agency's
transportation infrastructure. This concentration
enables asset management principles, methods, examples, and
research recommendations to be developed in a concrete, practical,
and understandable way. It facilitates comparisons with
corresponding work by transportation agencies overseas and by the
private sector, which have for the most part adopted a similar
scope in their studies. It provides a specific frame of reference
within which differences among state departments of transportation
(DOT) can be addressed by particular business management models,
approaches, and procedures.

This study therefore interprets transportation asset management
as a strategic approach to managing physical transportation
infrastructure. Transportation asset management in this
context promotes more effective resource allocation and utilization
based upon quality information. This concept covers a broad array
of DOT functions, activities, and decisions: e.g., transportation
investment policies; institutional relationships between DOTs and
other public and private groups; multimodal transportation
planning; program development for capital projects and for
maintenance and operations; delivery of agency programs and
services; and real-time and periodic system monitoring. All of
these management processes have important implications for an
agency's attainment of its goals in public policy, financial
resource availability, engineering standards and criteria,
maintenance and operations levels of service, and overall system
performance.

A number of support activities are involved as well. Information
technology can inform many of these management processes, and
agencies have already expended considerable sums to develop asset
management systems, databases, and other analytic tools. These
systems must, however, complement the decision-making processes and
organizational structures of individual agencies if they are to
operate effectively and support good asset management at all
organizational levels. Effective communication of information on
asset management between an agency and its governing bodies,
stakeholders, and customers is likewise critical to success.

The objectives of this study have been to gather information on
asset management practices in the United States and overseas,
develop a framework for transportation asset management, and apply
this framework to produce a Transportation Asset Management
Guide. The study has been organized in two phases:

Phase I encompassed information gathering, framework
development, and recommendation of a research program; and

Phase II has produced this Guide.