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This guide provides materials for the instructor of a Pavement Maintenance Effectiveness: Innovative Materials Workshop. The guide was developed to facilitate a slide presentation on state of the practice for pavement maintenance across six sessions.

This case study details the implementation of asset management strategies surrounding bridge management at several agencies. The report is part of the FHWA Office of Asset Management's series of case studies on TAM, produced with the goal of sharing information between agencies to improve efficiency.

A page which provides information on the value and importance of asset management practices, in coordination with the publication of FHWA's Asset Management Book Club webinar series.

An article on a new decision-making tool for managing the reconstruction, rehabilitation, and preservation of road networks.

New Zealand Asset Management Support (NAMS) has led the development of asset management best practice withing New Zealand since 1995. NAMS is a non-profit industry organisation that provides a hub through which industry professionals can both gain and distribute information on the latest developments in asset management.

Paying for capital transportation projects is a major challenge for many state agencies, made more complex by the passage of Dodd-Frank and the COVID-19 pandemic. This report guides practitioners through the process of debt-financing. It clearly describes the federal regulations, economics, federal institutions, and program needs that govern debt issuance and management, and it goes into great detail for each phase of the debt-financing process. The four phases are the decision process, individual transaction preparation & development, marketing & placement of individual transactions, and post-issuance compliance strategy. Three key challenges are also addressed in the guidebook: accessing complete information, planning for economic uncertainty, and adapting to technological advances.

Volume 1 of this report provides guidance in AASHTO-standard format for the application of roadway lighting and identifies gaps in guidance, where further research may need to be established.

The objective of this research is to develop a guide for state DOTs and other transportation planning agencies to understand, predict, plan for, and adapt to the potential impacts of emerging disruptive technologies. In preparing this guide, the research should identify issues, effects, and opportunities at the intersection of disruptive transportation technologies and organizational performance for senior managers at state DOTs and other transportation planning agencies.

The objectives of this project are to (a) document (beyond anecdotal discussions alone) concerns, issues and challenges DOTs and other government agencies have encountered in implementing federal transportation performance management (TPM) regulations; and (b) provide a framework for more systematic assessment of the costs associated with implementation. The research should build on previous research by NCHRP and others to characterize at least the following components of these concerns, issues and challenges:

• Prioritized list of concerns, issues and challenges encountered
• Explanation and discussion of each concern, issue, or challenge
• Specific examples of each concern, issue, or challenge as experienced by DOTs, MPOs, or others
• Realistic proposals of how concerns, issues and challenges may be addressed, ameliorated, or eliminated, for example through staff training, provision of guidance or other technical resources, or revisions to regulations
• Proposed framework for data collection and analysis that agencies may use to develop estimates of their implementation levels of effort
• Possible next steps and action items to be undertaken by various stakeholders to address concerns, issues and challenges.

North Carolina DOT (NCDOT) produced an interim TAMP in 2018 as part of the process to develop the final plan that is due on June 30, 2019. As an interim plan, parts of the document are left for completion in the final 2019 submission. The 2018 TAMP provides a description of the processes NCDOT will use to finalize analysis for Chapter 4 – Life‐cycle Cost Planning, Chapter 5 – Risk Management Analysis, and Chapter 6 – Financial Plan. Chapter 8 Process Improvements will be included as part of the 2019 final TAMP submission.