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Saskatchewan Highways and Transportation operates a maintenance management information system that provides up-to-date resource usage, accomplishments, and expenditures at any organizational level. The system captures data for the department's equipment management information, expenditure distribution, and pavement management information systems. Currently, the system operates on a mainframe computer located in the provincial capital. Data are entered daily at each area office on a microcomputer and communicated in batch mode to the mainframe. After the data pass certain validation tests, the system's year-to-date file is updated and a report is immediately returned to the area office. The system contains some unique features, including holding accounts that provide up-to-date expenditures even though payroll is processed biweekly and equipment nightly. Saskatchewan's approach to data entry and the philosophy used in designing the system are described. The type of data captured, the level at which the data are captured, hardware and software used, interfaces with other systems, and how the system itself is managed are reviewed. It is concluded that the system's success is due to its design philosophy of meeting the needs of the frontline maintenance manager.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1276, Maintenance Management 1990: Proceedings of a Workshop, Jackson, Mississippi, July 25-27, 1990. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved

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• ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (ABRIDGMENT)
• COMPUTER-AIDED MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT
• CONDITION SURVEYS IN THE STRATEGIC HIGHWAY RESEARCH PROGRAM LONG-TERM PAVEMENT PERFORMANCE STUDY AND PAVEMENT CONDITION RATING FOR PREOVERLAY CONDITIONS (ABRIDGMENT)
• DATA BASE--INTEGRATED ADVISORY SYSTEM FOR PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT
• DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS OF BRIDGE REHABILITATION AND MAINTENANCE COSTS (ABRIDGMENT)
• INDIANA'S MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM
• INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES FOR UPGRADING PERSONNEL IN STATE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENTS (ABRIDGMENT)
• INTEGRATION OF PERSONAL COMPUTERS WITH MAINFRAME COMPUTER MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (ABRIDGMENT)
• INTERACTIVE VIDEODISC TRAINING FOR ROADWAY MAINTENANCE
• LIFE-CYCLE COST EVALUATIONS OF THE EFFECTS OF PAVEMENT MAINTENANCE
• LOCAL AGENCY MANAGERS' PERCEIVED VALUE OF MOTIVATION AMONG MAINTENANCE WORKERS
• MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS RESOURCES INFORMATION SYSTEM
• MAKINGS OF AN EFFECTIVE MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
• NEW APPROACH FOR IMPROVEMENT OF HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE IN FRANCE
• NEW TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT
• PAVEMENT MAINTENANCE EFFECTIVENESS
• PRESENT AND FUTURE ROLE OF MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT TRAINING IN CIVIL ENGINEERING HIGHER EDUCATION
• ROADSIDE VEGETATION: PLAYER OR PEST? (ABRIDGMENT)
• SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE ICE AND SNOW CONTROL MANAGEMENT ON ROAD, BRIDGE, AND RUNWAY SURFACES (ABRIDGMENT)
• SUMMARY OF RESEARCH ON DATA COLLECTION SYSTEMS FOR MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT (ABRIDGMENT)
• VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION'S MAINTENANCE QUALITY EVALUATION PROGRAM