Managing Selected Transportation Assets: Signals, Lighting, Signs, Pavement Markings, Culverts, and Sidewalks (2007) / Chapter Skim
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Transportation agencies at all levels of government have in recent years investigated and applied the concepts, methods, and tools of asset management. These applications have typically focused agencies' strongest capabilities on pavements and bridges, key items in an agency's capital program and budget.
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The literature review indicated that management of these assets can be complicated in several ways. • From an engineering and technical standpoint, selected assets comprise a number of components and materials, serve in many different environments across the United States and Canada, and are subject to many different types of deterioration.
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• Beyond physical condition -- these selected assets demonstrate performance impacts that go beyond physical condition and service life. Measures of performance and life expectancy need to be broadened to encompass concepts such as energy consumption and functional, rather than physical, obsolescence of electronic components.
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