Preface

The AASHTO Transportation Asset Management Guide—A Focus on Implementation, aims to encourage transportation agencies to address strategic questions as they confront the task of managing the surface transportation system. Drawn from both national and international knowledge and experience, it provides guidance to State Department of Transportation (DOT) decision makers, as well as county and municipal transportation agencies, to assist them in realizing the most from financial resources now and in the future, preserving highway assets, and providing the service expected by customers. Divided into two parts, Part One of the implementation guide focuses on leadership and goal and objective setting, while Part Two is more technically orientated.

This implementation guide is based on research conducted under National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Project 08-69, Supplement to the AASHTO Transportation Asset Management Guide: Volume 2— A Focus on Implementation. AECOM served as prime contractor for the research with the assistance of subcontractors Paul D. Thompson and Spy Pond Partners.