An Asset-Management Framework for the Interstate Highway System (2009) / Chapter Skim
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An initial question an IHS owner must answer in considering how to implement the Interstate Asset Management Framework is whether to implement it at all. To understand how best to present the case for an Interstate Asset Management Framework, it can be instructive to first address those who are unlikely to immediately implement such a concept.
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They are very likely to be those organizations currently practicing and gaining significant benefits from applying transportation asset management principles. They are led and managed by leaders and managers who would find it inconceivable that critically important decisions about allocating and managing scarce resources could be made any other way.
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Certainly the ability of emergency response entities -- police, fire, ambulance, environmental hazard teams, and, under certain circumstances, the military to use the IHS to reach the locations requiring their urgent attention, including locations on the system itself -- earn them standing as significant stakeholders whose interests may provide a key impetus for establishing an Interstate Asset Management Framework. Event Driven This is the least desirable but not necessarily the most uncommon driver of implementing changes such as a riskbased Interstate Asset Management Framework.
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Key issues to address with an IHS asset management system include the level of investment in operations versus capital improvements and maintenance, the distribution of investments among operational service categories, and the benefits gained in terms of improved reliability and safety. Work Category Focus An Interstate Asset Management Framework may emphasize different work categories (such as preservation, mobility, safety, environment)
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The champion of implementing an Interstate Asset Management Framework, which in one way or another will stand apart from other transportation asset management activities, will bear the burden of prevailing in the likely deliberations and debates about why such a differentiated approach is needed at all. The arguments about the unique significance of the IHS, the benefits (and burdens)
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Yet, nonowner stakeholders may well have a level of interest in IHS facilities comparable to owner-operators by virtue of how critical the IHS is to their own underlying core missions. The opportunity for state DOTs and other owner/operators of IHS assets to engage stakeholders as partners can be an appealing characteristic of an Interstate Asset Management Framework if it is developed with collaboration and consensus building in mind.
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The importance of addressing the needs of these organizations in terms of both prevention as well as emergency response is self evident. The process of addressing such needs in an objective and systematic way can effectively be incorporated into an Interstate Asset Management Framework, particularly if the process is carried out in a collaborative way.
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Focusing on the IHS where the data are often the most reliable and complete will ultimately have broader benefits to the entire highway network. • Rational Risk Approach -- A quantitative approach to characterizing risks of system failure and development of risk mitigation strategies are fundamental aspects of an asset management framework and particularly applicable to the IHS where the consequences of disruption in service can be quite severe.
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• Global Competitiveness -- One of the keys to the rise of the United States during the post-World War II era as the economic engine of the planet was the comparative advantage provided by our highway network, as exemplified by the IHS. That advantage has eroded in recent years -- an effective asset management program can support the restoration of a highway network that should improve the nation's competitiveness in a global economy.
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• Comparable Measures State-to-State (also could be seen as a benefit by elected officials) -- A national Interstate Asset Management Framework could lend itself to conclusions being drawn about comparative performance among the states.
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