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 21st century operations using 21st century technologies

Operations Asset Management

Program Areas > Improving Day-to-Day Operations

Transportation agencies are faced with rising demand and reduced resources. In addition, making transportation improvement decisions is becoming increasingly complex. Taking into account the uniqueness of each transportation region, its system performance, and customer improvement preferences is challenging and sometimes overwhelming for practitioners and decision makers. A comprehensive asset management approach cuts across all individual assets to indicate the status of the entity, what the entity needs to invest in to maintain performance and where the entity could invest to improve its performance.