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Asset Management Data Collection for Supporting Decision Processes

• Preface
• Introduction
  • Background
  • Objective
  • Methodology
  • Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Literature Review
  • Asset Management
    • GASB 34
    • Asset Management Characteristics
    • Asset Management Decision Levels
    • Asset Management Decision Processes
  • Project Selection and Related Tools
    • Data Collection, Management, and Integration
    • Information Quality Levels
    • Data Collection Methods
    • Data Characteristics and Properties
    • Data Management
    • Data Integration
    • Decision Processes and Data Collection
  • Asset Management Implementation Efforts
    • Domestic Experience
    • Canada
    • Australia and New Zealand
    • Europe
  • Summary of the Literature Review
• Chapter 2. Survey of Practice
  • Results
    • Asset Management Implementation
    • Decision Levels and Processes
    • Data Collection Procedures
    • Data Collection Rationale
    • Summary of Survey Findings
• Chapter 3. Case Studies
  • Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT)
    • Core Asset management Busienss Processes
    • Needs-Based Budgets
    • Information Needs
    • Project Selection
    • Data Collection
  • Maryland State Highway Administration (MDSHA)
    • Overview of the Pavement Management System
    • Core Asset Management Business Processes
    • Project Selection
    • Data Collection
    • Data Management
    • Overview of the Drainage and Storm Water Facility Management System
    • Core Asset Management Business Processes
    • Project Selection
    • Data Collection
  • District of Columbia Department of Transportation (DDOT)
    • Data Collection
    • Project Selection
  • North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT)
    • Overview of the Agency's Decisionmaking Processes
    • Project Selection
    • Maintenance Management System Overview
    • Maintenance Data Collection
  • Lessons Learned
• Chapter 4. Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations
  • Framework for Effective and Efficient Data Collection
• References
• Appendices
  • Appendix A: Transportation Asset Management Web-Based Survey
  • Appendix B: Transportation Asset Management Survey Analysis

Prepared by:

Gerardo W. Flintsch, Ph.D., P.E.,
Center for Safe and sustainable Transportation Infrastructure,
Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
flintsch@vt.edu

J. W. Bryant, Jr., Ph.D., P.E.,
Asset management Division,
Virginia Department of Transportation
jamesw.bryant@vdot.virginia.gov

Prepared May 2006

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