State of Good Repair: Prioritizing the Rehabilitation and Replacement of Existing Capital Assets and Evaluating the Implications for Transit (2012) / Chapter Skim
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1 U.S. public transportation agencies face an enormous set of challenges as they seek to preserve their existing capital assets.
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2• Standards for asset data and condition assessment; • Synthesis of models and approaches for track and track-related assets used in passenger and freight rail in the United States and abroad; • Research on the relationship between asset condition and user impacts, such as delay; • Improved high-level models for relating investment levels to performance; • Quantification of transit agency prioritization strategies; and • Guidance on applying asset management concepts to transit. Further work in these areas would benefit transit agencies throughout the United States and abroad, extending the current research effort and providing transit agencies with additional advancements in the analysis of asset rehabilitation and replacement investments.
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