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Title: AUTOMATED WORK MANAGEMENT FOR STATE HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE
Accession Number: 00960087
Record Type: Component
Availability: N/AFind a library where document is available Abstract: Maintaining a 42,000 lane-mile highway system parsed by 9,000 bridges is not like maintaining a building, a physical plant, an institution, an equipment fleet, or a campus. The needs of the system are not completely plannable, cyclical, or systematizable. Maintenance management, however, is also not completely driven by emergent demands, random events, or failures in the infrastructure. And contrary to the beliefs of some, highway and bridge maintenance is manageable. It can even be managed with a certain degree of efficiency. The requirement that it be done efficiently is growing as available resources decrease. The Maintenance Program of the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT), in partnership with Booz Allen Hamilton of McLean, Virginia, is currently designing a highway maintenance management system to replace the system that has been in place since the 1980s. The new system will take advantage of a system that Booz Allen Hamilton has evolved from initial implementations in Vermont and New Mexico, to a web-enabled version developed for the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT). This award winning system was designed for the specific needs of large-scale highway maintenance management. The approach in NYSDOT has been to customize the GDOT application for use in New York with one significant new development that is being referred to as a "work management" process. The NYSDOT system is being called MAMIS for Maintenance Asset Management Information System. The process is organized around the creation of a to-do list called "Needs," the assignment of selected work to either State Maintenance Forces or Contractors for completion, and the reporting of what was accomplished by location or asset. To many who read this, the process described above will be seen as nothing earth-shaking or new. What is new to us in the NYSDOT Maintenance Program is the structuring and automating of the process of managing day-to-day, cyclical, and seasonal work--and to associate that work with particular sections of highway, individual bridges, snow and ice beats, or other State assets. This provides a standardized structure for managing work across the State's Maintenance Program and will lay the foundation for both the management and analysis pieces of infrastructure asset management.
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Report/Paper Numbers: E-C052,
MMC03-032 MMC03-029 Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Wilcox, S JPagination: p. 75-92
Publication Date: 2003-7
Serial: Conference:
10th AASHTO-TRB Maintenance Management Conference
Location:
Duluth, Minnesota Features: Appendices
(1)
; Figures
(14)
TRT Terms: Identifier Terms: Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; I10: Economics and Administration; I60: Maintenance
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Jul 15 2003 12:00AM
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