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Project Objectives The primary objective of this research was to develop a practical and robust process for determining an agency's full costs associated with performing highway maintenance. The process needed to be flexible enough that it can be applied to any specific maintenance activity, and it needed to ensure that the resulting full cost incorporates a fair share of both maintenance program and enterprise support.
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In addition, it requires data and information from multiple sources, including agency management systems and annual agency financial and maintenance program reports. As a consequence, its application by any state DOT will be significantly enhanced when maintenance practitioners collaborate with agency experts in agency finance and information systems.
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It is supplemented with documented examples of the full cost calculation for six DOTs and examples of maintenance cost tracking activities at three DOTs. However, each agency differs with respect to overall agency structure and scope, organizes its maintenance program differently, has different numbers and definitions of maintenance activities, and differs in its treatment and classification of different expenditure types based on these characteristics as well as its information systems environment.
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