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While most states still focus solely on their bridge and pavement assets, a handful of states are demonstrating the benefits and best methods for including other assets in their transportation asset management plans. Among these states, California, Connecticut, Minnesota, and Utah are identified for their forward-looking practices. Highlighted in this case study, these state agencies include a whole range of non-traditional assets from signs and ITS to sidewalks and pavement markings.

This case study highlights financial planning practices undertaken by seven states in their 2019 transportation asset management plans. These states connected their asset management objectives with their funding gaps, risks, and investment strategies, and they presented a thoughtful approach for allocating scarce resources. The state agencies include: Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, Michigan DOT, Washington State DOT, New York State DOT, Utah DOT, Vermont Transportation Agency, and Illinois DOT.

This case study highlights examples from the transportation asset management plans of Minnesota, Ohio, New Jersey, and Tennessee. The states in these cases provide excellent examples on how to manage assets through life cycle plans, and they demonstrate how life cycle planning may result in significant savings and improved conditions.

In light of the current COVID-19 crisis, the CPBM System Mobility and Emerging Technology Subcommittee hosted a webinar-style meeting—in place of their usual bi-monthly conference call—to share resources relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic. The meeting began with a roll call and general introduction. After, representatives from FHWA and AASHTO provided updates for their respective organizations in regard to the crisis. Following the FHWA and AASHTO updates, three presentations were given by Rick Schuman (INRIX), Lei Zhang and Michael Pack (University of Maryland), and Monali Shah (Google). The meeting concluded with a discussion about next steps and action items for the subcommittee.

To watch the full video, click on the link: https://register.gotowebinar.com/recording/2019291993716040707

Follow Up Links:

INRIX:

• https://inrix.com/blog/
• Volume Trends Dashboard Information: https://inrix.com/traffic-volume-trends-dashboard/

University of Maryland:

• https://data.covid.umd.edu/

Google:

• COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports: https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/
• COVID-19 public dataset program: Making data freely accessible for better public outcomes: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/free-public-datasets-for-covid19/

This research and policy guidance focuses attention on ten areas and safety recommendations which will save lives and improve transportation safety. These areas are: distractions, alcohol and drug impairment, shipment of hazardous materials, positive train control, speeding-related crashes, aircraft flight operations, collision avoidance systems, fatigue-related accidents, medical screening for sleep apnea, and strengthening occupant protection. Under each of these categories, the document presents recommendations for aviation, highway, marine, rail, intermodal, and pipeline modes.

This report extends and implements the results of NCHRP Report 806: Cross-Asset Resource Allocation and the Impact on System Performance. Case studies were used to illustrate key issues in implementing a cross-asset resource allocation approach, and the lessons learned were then used to improve the guidance and tools developed in NCHRP Report 806.

This report provides a guideline for identifying right-sizing opportunities where greater social and economic value can be realized by repurposing, reusing, or fundamentally resizing existing transportation system assets.

This synthesis report provides information about the existing tools that airports use for identifying common hazards and the processes used for measuring, monitoring, and prioritizing the associated risks.

This report addresses transit agency, user, and social costs and benefits of SGR investments. The report presents an analysis methodology that utilizes and builds upon previous research performed through the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) presented in TCRP Reports 157 and 198. The guidance (presented in Chapter 3) walks through the steps for calculating the ROI for a potential investment or set of investments.

Transit Security Preparedness identifies practices transit agencies can use to improve their security to reduce their security risks, with a specific emphasis on practices related to new technologies. The report presents common themes in the approaches to security preparedness to aid transit agencies as they develop a process that fits their needs.

TCRP Synthesis 145 gathers and analyzes many of the best current practices for preventing incidents and accidents on transit buses. Their study identifies the most common and most effective technologies including a number of collision avoidance technologies such as forward collision warning, emergency braking, lane departure warnings. and electronic stability control.

This paper in the Transportation Research Record, reviews the relevant concepts and legislative requirements that link asset management, risk and resilience, and tools available to support risk-based asset management. Based on a review of the transportation asset management plans developed by 49 state departments of transportation in 2018 and 2019, the paper summarizes the approaches to the risk management section of these asset management plans and the role resilience plays. Opportunities to better integrate resilience into the risk-based asset management plans are then identified. Examples are presented that demonstrate the role of resilience-related technical performance measures that reflect decisions related to flooding in the various stages of the disaster cycle (preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation).