Long-Term Bridge Performance Committee Letter Report: February 20, 2015 (2015) / Chapter Skim
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ffi TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD OF THE ¡'JAI/ONAI ACADF/H1/fS February 20,2015 Mr. Gregory G
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. Updates on the following subjects: Program organization and staffing, Data collection protocols, Field data collection, Development of bridge practices timelines, Bridge performance index, Bridge deterioration models, and Other related subjects.
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we discern only openness and encouragement from the LTBP team as we perform our advisory role. In this regard, we appreciate the time and effort you and the LTBP team are devoting to considering our letter reports and to responding to the recommendations they contain.
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development. Further, we recommend that LTBP's Sfafe Coordinators be actively involved in the planning for the development of these tools and in the testing of their usefulness.
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the committee to become and remain current on the status of the program, and to offer advice while there was still time to resolve the difficulty or improve the outcome. The current schedule keeps the committee behind the latest developments and constrains our ability to have a constructive influence on the program.
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We request consideration of the following sef of changes: o Delivery to the committee every 3 months of written reports from LTBP staff or contractors on the sfafus of ongoing activities; fhese reports should dlscuss progress, problems, initiatives, and changes, o Elimination of sfafus reports at meetings or subsfantial reduction of the time devoted to them, so that most of the meeting time can be devoted to deliberation on and development of consensus recommendations, o Submrssion to the committee of (a) written reguesfs for feedback on rssues being addressed by the LTBP team while the resolution of the rssue is in progress and þ)
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encompasses various expectations from various stakeholders, but this long-term and multifaceted undertaking req u ires comprehensive plann i ng. Once again, we request that the LTBP Team develop and follow a buslness plan so that the program's limited resources can be marshaled and applied to achieve the program's highest-priority objectives.
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Attachment 1 Roster TRB Long-Term Bridge Performance Gommittee Ananth K Prasad, Chair Jugesh Kapur Secretary Senior Associate Bridge Engineer Florida Department of Transportation Burns and McDonnell and Malcolm T
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Attachment 2 Agenda Meeting of the TRB Long-Term Bridge Performance Gommittee December 2,2014 This committee provides an ongoing peer review of the Long-Term Bridge Performance (LTBP) Program, which is a 20-year research effort to measure and monitor the performance of a nationally representative sample of bridges.
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1015-1145 LTBP Protocols Sue Lane Training of Contractors Sue Lane Paper Studies Sue Lane LTBP Bridge Portal Rob Zobel Synopsis of State Coordinators' Meeting Bruce Johnson LTBP Bridge Practices Timelines Sue Lane 1145-1245 Lunch 1245-1315 Closed Session: Biases and Conflicts of Interest 1315-1500 Weathering Steel Study Jen nifer Righ man McCon nell Weigh-in-Motion Study Tom Saad LTB Performance lndex Sue Lane Strategic Performance Matrices Rob Zobel Deterioration Models Rob Zobel 1500-1515 Next steps, scheduling of next meeting Ananth Prasad 1515-1530 Break 1530-1700 Closed Session: Findings and Recommendations 1700-1730 Closing Remarks Ananth Prasad 1730 Meeting Adjourned 10
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