@BOOK{NAP26067, author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Ali Hajbabaie and Leila Hajibabai and Mehrdad Tajalli and Amir Mirheli and Rasool Mohebifard", title = "Utilization Measurement and Management of Fleet Equipment", doi = "10.17226/26067", abstract = "State highway agency equipment fleet assets are vital to the delivery of agency programs, projects, and services. Measuring, monitoring, and reporting on asset utilization levels are necessary for the management of the equipment fleet and meeting the highway agency\u2019s business needs.The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program'sNCHRP Research Report 957: Utilization Measurement and Management of Fleet Equipment is both a handbook on equipment utilization concepts and a guide for making cost-effective equipment utilization decisions.The Utilization Prediction and Management Software allows the user to:\u2022 estimate equipment utilization and manage the fleet at a region-level based on available measurable information\u2022 identify equipment that is under- or over-utilized, needs to be salvaged, or needs to be relocated; and\u2022 identify the fleet management strategy that minimizes the total fleet management costs.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26067/utilization-measurement-and-management-of-fleet-equipment", year = 2021, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" }