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... 13 CHAPTER THREE SURVEY RESULTS on the Topic Panel, revised, and distributed to DOTs in a web-based format. This survey was designed to capture the existing state of practice and agency expectations for the next 3 to 5 years.
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... 14 • Arkansas -- Deputy Commissioner for Highways, Deputy Commissioner for Aviation, Deputy Commissioner for Marine Transportation, Chief Engineer, Statewide Maintenance & Operations Chief, Division Director – Program Development Division, Director-Administration Services Division, Director-Central Region Office. • Alabama -- It starts within the Maintenance Bureau; specifically, in the Management Section, with some responsibilities delegated down to division offices.
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... 15 • Louisiana -- TAM Steering Committee: Management and Finance, Engineering, Multimodal Planning, Road and Bridge Design, Statewide maintenance, ITS, IT, Districts, and Traffic Engineering. • Maryland -- Our Asset Management Steering committee includes representatives from several offices, such as, planning, maintenance, traffic, pavement and structures.
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... 16 Managing asset condition is directly dependent on the methods used for collection and resulting data quality achieved. Each asset can have unique features which, for various reasons, favor manual or automated collection.
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... 17 integration. Data integration is essential to transform the data into information that is able to support decision making at the various management levels.
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... 18 ASSET MANAGEMENT PROCESS AND SUPPORT ACTIVITIES Agencies were asked to comment on the state of practice on the use of AM within their organization. As shown in Table 8, agency AM programs are at different points of integration, with only one (Wisconsin)
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... 19 Participants were then asked to characterize their agencies' efforts in working with decision makers and other stakeholders to incorporate the TAMP as part of their business processes. As shown in Table 9, the majority of responses show that they are active and have made efforts across multiple departments and business units.
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... 20 that agencies are incorporating AM practices in their decision making (49% to 57%)
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... 21 Figure 4 shows the results from the self-assessment summary, divided into the following three areas: • Current: These results reflect the 18 agencies (on average) assessment of their current AM practices as it relates to the 4 parts.
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... 22 • Desired in 5 years: These results reflect the desired AM practices by the 18 participating agencies. The majority of the responses (all areas above 54%)
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... 23 ery status) : This question is related to communication, and 12 out of 18 agencies indicated that they are not meeting this policy, with the majority moving from "disagree" to "agree." The AM state-of-thepractice survey showed that only 54% indicated that they have processes to share AM results with external stakeholders.

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