Transportation Asset Management Guide: A Focus on Implementation – Executive Summary

Overview

This Executive Summary serves as a companion to the AASHTO Transportation Asset Management Guide—A Focus on Implementation. The AASHTO Transportation Asset Management Guide—A Focus on Implementation is focused on implementing transportation asset management (TAM). These documents should be read and used together as they are complementary. The Guide provides considerable background information about TAM, the advantages of using TAM, and an approach that agencies can use to identify where they are now and where they should focus their asset management efforts. The Guide is presented in three key parts:

• Part 1, which is focused on organizing and leading TAM. Part 1 is of most interest to executive management.
• Part 2, which is focused on processes, tools, systems, and data. Part 2 is of most interest to practitioners,
• Appendices, which include examples of asset management plans and four in-depth case studies of local and international agencies’ experiences in implementing TAM.