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Statewide Implementation of a Maintenance Management System in North Carolina
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Accession Number:

01030134

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/00978515

Abstract:

The North Carolina Department of Transportation recently implemented a maintenance management system (MMS) across the state. This effort coincided with the implementation of a new financial management information system (FMIS) to which the MMS is interfaced. The MMS is developed and supported by Agile Assets, Inc., and the FMIS is the R/3 system from SAP. The objectives of the MMS implementation included planning based on the condition survey results, programming, and budgeting using ideal, baseline, and dynamic annual plans, resource management and task-based scheduling to support the acquisition of work history at a high level of detail including the linear reference, as well as considerable monitoring and evaluation through numerous reports. The paper primarily describes the main implementation project and basic operation of the new system, but also offers insights and hindsight based on experiences since "Go Live." The MMS system utilizes data at two major levels. For the strategic planning level, all actual work quantities and expenditures returned from the FMIS are summarized by cost center, county, highway functional class, and budget category. These are used in conjunction with the condition survey results to create internal models predicting the condition of the highway system for any level of spending. The models can then be used to perform incremental benefit cost optimization for various user selected subsets of the network and on various budgets to determine answers to an array of strategic planning and budgeting questions. These analyses generate efficient frontiers for cost and level of service and also allow for the creation of annual plans and budgets for field units against which more detailed planning can be performed. These plans can be maintained and monitored on a continuous basis. At the more tactical level, scheduling and recording of work history takes place at a task level. All actual work quantities and expenditures returned from the FMIS are linked to individual tasks set up in the MMS. These tasks are essentially individual jobs of a specified activity type and at a specified location. The result is that the work history can be queried for any point or segment of a road. This has the immediate benefit of providing up to date, accessible work history for all field personnel but it also provides the ability to make this information available to other management systems. One of the most important is the pavement management system. With regard to the rolling out of the system into production, some of the training and post-roll out support issues are discussed and some recommendations made.

Monograph Accession #:

01030127

Language:

English

Authors:

Pilson, Charles C
Love, Lacy D
Brandenburg, Jennifer P

Pagination:

pp 117-134

Publication Date:

2006-7

Serial:

Transportation Research Circular

Issue Number: E-C098
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0097-8515

Conference:

11th AASHTO-TRB Maintenance Management Conference

Location: Charleston South Carolina, United States
Date: 2006-7-16 to 2006-7-20
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board; American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO); Federal Highway Administration

Media Type:

Web

Features:

Figures (3) ; References (4)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Financial management; Work history

Subject Areas:

Finance; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Research; I60: Maintenance

Source Data:

MMC2006-022

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Aug 4 2006 10:33AM

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