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Infrastructure Reporting and Asset Management: Best Practices and Opportunities

Abstract

  • Sponsored by the Infrastructure Systems Committee of the Transportation and Development Institute of ASCE.

    This report contains 25 papers describing current approaches to asset management and highlighting the importance of and best practices in infrastructure reporting. Civil infrastructure reporting practices at the national, state, regional, and local levels of government affect a community's ability to understand its asset capabilities and demands and to communicate effectively about these issues to political decisionmakers. When done well, infrastructure reporting communicates to political decisionmakers the relative urgency of investing in civil infrastructure versus other priorities, such as health care, education, energy and security.

    Topics include: building a credible reporting system, effective communication, and benefits of infrastructure reporting; infrastructure methodology and report quality; and tools and metrics to facilitate infrastructure reporting.

    This report is valuable to professional organizations, academics, and practitioners involved in infrastructure reporting and/or asset management, as well as to political decisionmakers.

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Front Matter
i–viii

    Part 1 Building a Credible Reporting System, Effective Communication and Benefits of Infrastructure Reporting

    An Historical Perspective on Infrastructure Reporting and Asset Management
    ix–7
      Does Bringing Infrastructure Onto the Balance Sheet Matter? An Overview of Public Water Enterprise Financial Reporting Practices
      8–15
        Impediments to Public Sector Implementation of Asset Management Practices in the United States
        16–21
          The Private Sector's Role in Implementing Asset Management Practices in the United States
          22–33
            Managing Provincial Infrastructure–The Alberta Approach
            34–40
              Changing Municipal Policy in Support of Infrastructure Asset Management
              41–46
                The Edmonton Approach to Infrastructure Management
                47–55
                  Community Engagement in Portland, Oregon: Linking Asset Decisions to Community Values
                  56–63

                    Part 2 Infrastructure Reporting Methodology/Report Quality

                    Reporting on America's Infrastructure: Background Preparation and Possible Guidance on Grading Infrastructure
                    65–72
                      Grading the States' Infrastructure Management Performance: The Government Performance Project's Process and Results
                      73–80
                        Success Factors for Road Management Systems
                        81–85
                          Communicating the Results of Integrated Asset Management: Iowa DOT Case Study
                          86–92
                            The Use of Road Infrastructure Data for Urban Transportation Planning: Issues and Opportunities
                            93–98
                              Infrastructure Reporting in Small and Rural Local Governments: The Case of West Virginia
                              99–107
                                Using Performance Specified Maintenance Contracts: Buyer/Seller Beware
                                108–114

                                  Part 3 Tools and Metrics to Facilitate Infrastructure Reporting

                                  A Clinical Approach to Infrastructure Asset Management?
                                  115–123
                                    Market-Based Valuation of Civil Infrastructure—A Research Opportunity
                                    125–130
                                      Standardized Risk Analysis for Infrastructure Assessment
                                      131–140
                                        Mission Dependency Index–A Metric for Determining Infrastructure Criticality
                                        141–146
                                          Building Condition Assessment Metrics: Best Practices
                                          147–152
                                            Performance Driven Asset Management at a State DOT
                                            153–157
                                              Using Visual Condition Assessment Data for the Life-Cycle Management of Spillway Gate Systems on Dams
                                              158–164
                                                Long Term Performance Modeling, Life Cycle Analysis and Investment Planning for Sidewalk Networks
                                                165–171
                                                  Framework for Short-Line Railroad Track Asset Management and Condition Reporting
                                                  172–177
                                                    Structural Health Monitoring for Bridges
                                                    178–182
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                                                      Index
                                                      183–188