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... 1   The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) defines transportation asset management (TAM)
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... 2 Collaborative Practices for Performance-Based Asset Management Between State DOTs and MPOs The findings presented in this report are based on survey responses from 43 of the 52 state DOTs (83 percent) , interviews with seven state DOTs and four MPOs, and the literature review.
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... Summary 3   to a highly functional, collaborative relationship of trust that has become part of the state's culture. TAM has provided a mechanism for bringing together agencies with disparate agency goals and objectives into a unified statewide strategy for investing in infrastructure assets.
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... 4 Collaborative Practices for Performance-Based Asset Management Between State DOTs and MPOs • Technical assistance/capacity-building activities on specific topics, such as target-setting, • Statewide collection of asset condition information covering state and locally maintained assets, • Protocols and tools for data sharing across state DOTs and MPOs, • Standard report cards on asset condition within MPO boundaries, • Standard asset investment reporting, • Workshops involving state DOT, MPO, and local agency staff to discuss current practices, challenges, and future collaboration opportunities, • Formal documentation of collaboration processes, • Standing coordinating bodies for MPOs and TAM, and • Development of templates with standard language for MPOs to use within their planning documents [e.g., to establish targets within Metropolitan Transportation Plans (MTPs)

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