01045983

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https://doi.org/10.3141/2025-07

http://scholar.google.com...uman&publication_year=2007

Context-sensitive solutions, value engineering or value analysis, and asset management systems are all strategic processes or systems with common objectives, even if they have different emphases. All place a high value on customer satisfaction, stakeholder values, and the delivery or maintenance of safe facilities. All stress the efficient and effective use of resources and the alignment of investments to produce the best outcomes or the most quality for the money. All are open to a broad interpretation of the word “best,” but they are challenged by the measurement of performance in areas that are more difficult to quantify. They share an emphasis on transparency, multidisciplinary teams and perspectives, and analytical, evidence-based decision making. They use processes that examine multiple alternatives to finding consensus on ultimate decisions. Especially when they are used together or in tandem, these tools and systems can be used as part of strategic and systematic approaches that have a significant potential for the delivery of transportation assets with greater sustainability and public funding and support for transportation, the community, and the natural environment. This paper examines the principles, similarities, and opportunities for reinforcement of these approaches.

01088240

English

pp 72-80

2007

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

9780309104524

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References (33) ; Tables (1)

Asset management; Context sensitive design; Customer satisfaction; Decision making; Sustainable development; Value engineering

Accountability; Context sensitive solutions; Sustainable engineering

Design; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Feb 8 2007 7:24PM

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• Development of a Model for Freeway Green Landscape Evaluation
• Evaluation of Abutment Scour Prediction Equations with Field Data
• Integrating Value Engineering and Context-Sensitive Solutions: The St. Clair Avenue West Transit Improvements Project
• Mainstreaming Context-Sensitive Design in Massachusetts: Deployment of the New "Project Development and Design Guide"
• Midwest Guardrail System for Long-Span Culvert Applications
• Midwest Guardrail System W-Beam-to-Thrie-Beam Transition
• Outsourcing Utility Coordination: Who, Where, and Why?
• Particle Separation and Hydrologic Control by Cementitious Permeable Pavement
• Performance Evaluation of Low-Tension Three-Strand Cable Median Barriers
• Performance of Steel-Post, W-Beam Guardrail Systems
• The Design of Roads and of the Road Environment in Small Rural Communities
• Use of Context-Sensitive Methods to Influence Operating Speeds: Case Study of Rural Highway by Casewise Visual Evaluation