Integrating Effective Transportation Performance, Risk, and Asset Management Practices

2021 ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Asset Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Performance Risk

scholarly journals Developing Pavement Marking Management Systems: A Theoretical Model Framework Based on the Experiences of the US Transportation Agencies

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Alireza Sassani ◽  
Omar Smadi ◽  
Neal Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
Asset Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Model Framework ◽  
Pavement Markings ◽  
The Us ◽  
Pavement Marking ◽  
Transportation Agencies

Pavement markings are essential elements of transportation infrastructure with critical impacts on safety and mobility. They provide road users with the necessary information to adjust driving behavior or make calculated decisions about commuting. The visibility of pavement markings for drivers can be the boundary between a safe trip and a disastrous accident. Consequently, transportation agencies at the local or national levels allocate sizeable budgets to upkeep the pavement markings under their jurisdiction. Infrastructure asset management systems (IAMS) are often biased toward high-capital-cost assets such as pavements and bridges, not providing structured asset management (AM) plans for low-cost assets such as pavement markings. However, recent advances in transportation asset management (TAM) have promoted an integrated approach involving the pavement marking management system (PMMS). A PMMS brings all data items and processes under a comprehensive AM plan and enables managing pavement markings more efficiently. Pavement marking operations depend on location, conditions, and AM policies, highly diversifying the pavement marking management practices among agencies and making it difficult to create a holistic image of the system. Most of the available resources for pavement marking management focus on practices instead of strategies. Therefore, there is a lack of comprehensive guidelines and model frameworks for developing PMMS. This study utilizes the existing body of knowledge to build a guideline for developing and implementing PMMS. First, by adapting the core AM concepts to pavement marking management, a model framework for PMMS is created, and the building blocks and elements of the framework are introduced. Then, the caveats and practical points in PMMS implementation are discussed based on the US transportation agencies’ experiences and the relevant literature. This guideline is aspired to facilitate PMMS development for the agencies and pave the way for future pavement marking management tools and databases.

scholarly journals Maintenance, occupational health and safety: a systematic review of the literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo Fabiano Costella ◽  
Francieli Dalcanton ◽  
Scheyla Maria Cardinal ◽  
Sandra Salete Vilbert ◽  
Graciela Aparecida Pelegrini
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Asset Management ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Maintenance Strategies ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Conceptual Maps ◽  
Maintenance Activities

Abstract: The objective of this article is to use a systematic review of the literature to answer how the maintenance sector considers the occupational safety and health (OSH) criteria, what impacts safety has on maintenance activities, which are the most significant branches of activities in this relationship, and which phases and types of maintenance are more prone to be influenced by OSH. The articles for these studies were selected through the Capes Portal, limited to the period between 2010 to 2015. Articles selected from the Brazilian Congresses on Asset Management and Maintenance in the period from 2013 to 2015 were also used. 38 articles were selected in total for the systematic review of the literature. The results were summarized through conceptual maps and revealed that there are fundamental relationships between OSH, Maintenance and Asset Management and that maintenance has a central role to play in these relationships. It is also concluded that the impacts of safety on the maintenance activities involve all stages of the process and that the maintenance sector considers the OSH criteria as a function of the safety of the persons performing the maintenance and operating the equipment. The contributions include a discussion on the importance of maintenance and safety according to different organizational cultures, the elements considered in management practices, maintenance strategies and safety criteria.

Implementation of the British Columbia Side Road Assessment Plan

2003 ◽  
Vol 1819 (1) ◽  
pp. 262-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne Cowe Falls ◽  
Shawn Landers ◽  
Wael Bekheet ◽  
Reg Fredrickson
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Asset Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Pavement Management ◽  
Huge Data ◽  
Management Application ◽  
Traffic Volumes ◽  
Fiscal Restraint

With more than 61,000 lane-km, the British Columbia side road network is an important economic asset to the province, providing access to a large resource-based economy. This network is composed of paved (25,000 lane-km) and unpaved (36,000 lane-km) sections of various geometric and construction standards and low traffic volumes. In the mid-1990s, the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation completed implementation of a comprehensive corporate pavement management application on its entire primary and secondary highway system. The ministry was also committed to extension of the system to all roads under its jurisdiction as part of its asset management practices to support formalized condition assessment and needs analysis processes. One of the obstacles facing the implementation of pavement management application on the side roads was the huge data collection cost, particularly in a time of governmentwide fiscal restraint. The side road data collection project was initiated with the objective of developing a data collection methodology and plan for the entire network by a combination of continuous and sampled approaches. The approach used to modify the existing U.S. Corps of Engineers data collection system for unpaved roads to conditions in British Columbia and the field verification trials that were completed before full-scale implementation are discussed. The data collection blueprint, which combines full and sampled coverage of the network with a road classification system, is also described. The results of the first data collection cycle and lessons learned are presented.

Advanced Services for Turbomachinery Asset Management

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valter Quercioli
Keyword(s):  
Simple Model ◽  
Asset Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Competitive Environment ◽  
Financial Returns ◽  
Management Effectiveness ◽  
Financial Benefits ◽  
Return On Capital ◽  
Operational Practices

Operations have a key role to play in today’s highly competitive environment, as they must provide the utmost effectiveness in asset management practices to boost the Return on Capital Employed (ROCE) back to the asset Owners. Asset Management Effectiveness (AME) can be rooted in a certain number of Operator-controllable leverages, that this paper is aimed to show thru a simple model. The model ties the identified operational leverages to the ROCE, providing guidance for the Operators to communicate properly with the asset Owners for demonstrating the financial benefits of their operational practices. A certain number of advanced services available to the Operators are shown and described, that can support both Operations and asset Owners in their search for the highest financial returns from existing assets.

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