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... 1 Transportation asset management (TAM) is intended to help agencies make the best use of resources available for maintaining, rehabilitating, and replacing existing physical assets such as pavements, bridges, traffic and safety devices, and facilities.
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... 2 Return on Investment in Transportation Asset Management Systems and Practices Second, the research provides guidance that agencies can use to calculate the ROI of a specific investment in TAM. An ROI analysis provides a standard quantitative approach for making a business case through comparing the benefits of a proposed investment with its costs, measuring both over a standard time horizon.

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