Strategic Issues Facing Transportation, Volume 7: Preservation, Maintenance, and Renewal of Highway Infrastructure (2020) / Chapter Skim
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39 For a future, sustainable highway infrastructure system, transportation organizations need to foster and apply emerging and innovative practices (materials, tools, approaches, and tech nologies) and address future risks, threats, and customer requirements in an efficient and cost effective manner.
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40 Strategic Issues Facing Transportation Table 9. Emerging PMR practices and their anticipated benefits.
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Opportunities and Benefits of Deploying Emerging PMR Practices 41 External Benefits External benefits (i.e., benefits to the public) are categorized into six areas: improved safety, improved customer satisfaction, improved resiliency, reduced congestion, improved system reli ability, and enhanced environmental sustainability.
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42 Strategic Issues Facing Transportation Reduced Congestion Emerging PMR practices provide an alternative to disruptive PMR activities. They could pro vide improved communication between the PMR process (work zone traffic management sys tem)
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Opportunities and Benefits of Deploying Emerging PMR Practices 43 Improved Asset Performance Several of the emerging PMR practices offer benefits related to improved highway infrastruc ture performance, and thus support the agency efforts in achieving performance targets. Infra structure that is performing at a higher standard will reduce maintenance needs and thus will decrease the cost and effort associated with improving the state of the asset as well as contribut ing to increased user satisfaction.
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44 Strategic Issues Facing Transportation These practices collectively could help provide the following benefits: • Deliver projects within time and budget constraints. • Consolidate business process for lifecycle management of projects.
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