FLH Asset Management

What is Asset Management?

• Asset Management is not a specific product or service, but rather a way of doing business

• It provides a solid foundation from which to

monitor the transportation system and optimize the preservation

• It is a framework for making decisions in order to use resources efficiently

• Assets can take various forms

FHWA Primary Physical Assets

• Pavements

• Structures

• Tunnels

• Hardware

– Guardrail, signs, lighting, barriers, monitoring equipment, etc.

Other Assets

(Typical of Land Management Agencies)

• Construction and maintenance equipment

• Fleet vehicles

• Real estate (buildings and property)

• Materials

• Infrastructure (waste water and water

treatment facilities)

FLH Asset Management System

Asset Inventory

Assessment and Performance Modeling /PMS Program Optimization

Short and Long Range Plans (Project Selection) Program Implementation Performance Monitoring Budget / Allocations QA Review GIS Partner Input

Federal Lands Highway

Asset Management

Objective:

Foster, develop, implement and market the asset management system to manage and optimize the preservation, maintenance and operation of the

transportation infrastructures for our Federal Land or State agency partners

Asset Management Focus Areas

Immediate

• Identify transportation related assets collected within FLH

• Develop matrix of collected assets and identify owner • Provide status of FLH Management Systems

(PMS, BMS, SMS,MIS,CMS)

FHWA/FLH Asset Management

Interaction

The FHWA Transportation Asset

Management (TAM) Action Plan identified

Three Actions that are directly related to

Action 1

• Support implementation of management

systems for FLH partner agencies

– Disseminate information about Asset Management tools and techniques

– Further the development of Asset Management concepts and applications beyond the

management systems

– Hold meetings with FLMA’s and develop implementation plans

Action 2

• Improve awareness and understanding of

transportation asset management with FLH

partners

– Develop strategy for educating decision-makers at partner agencies, identifying champions, and developing tools to assist in decisions

Action 3

• Strengthen horizontal linkages to promote

integrated decision-making

– Identify and discuss intra-FHWA partnering opportunities between FLH and other FHWA units

– Use FLH as a laboratory for testing and

demonstrating integrated asset management approaches

Data Integration Benefits using

Asset Management

• Availability/Accessibility

• Timeliness

• Accuracy and Integrity

• Consistency and Clarity

• Complete Data Sets

• Reduced Duplication

ROAD INVENTORY

DATABASE

GIS

Pavement Management System Data Flow

NPS FIELD DATA Asset Management Database Additional Data PMS/ Perf Model FH Program Optimization Short and Long Range Plans

(Project Selection))

Budget/Allocations

FWS

PMS Analysis Tools

• Decision Trees for Pavement Type/Functional Class

– Urban Parkways

– Principle Park Roads, Connector Roads, City Streets – Special Park Roads, Primitive Roads, Administrative

Roads

• Climatic Zones

– Eight climatic models

– Variations of Dry-Wet/Freeze- No Freeze-Super Freeze

• Dynamic Segmentation

• Segment Grouping

• Hard Wired Projects (4R Projects & Current Projects)

• Budget Scenarios

PMS Contractor Selected : STANTEC Consulting Services

Award Amount $517,022.00

Advertised August 13, 2003 Awarded December 19, 2003

Project Milestones

Date Complete

ƒ Review Pavement Management

Needs and Existing Data 3/2004 100%

ƒ Develop Database, Customize

Soft-ware and Populate Database 9/2004 100%

ƒ Develop Models

Environmental Models 4/2004 100%

Generic Deterioration Models 12/2004 100%

Project Milestones (continued)

Date Complete

• Develop Models (continued)

Maintenance & Reconstruction

Costs-Nationally 12/2004 Complete

• Run draft PMS Program w/

Output recommendations 3/2005 Complete

• Conduct Ground Truthing of Outputs

for Pilot Parks 4-7/2005 Complete

Pavement Management System will

• Provide a basis for reauthorization funding. • Aid in the NPS funding allocation process. • Aid in the optimum expenditure of funds

• Recommend a program of work on an engineering basis. Projects based on political factors can be accommodated in the program.

• Aid in achieving an average Network PCR = 80. • Aid in bundling like roads or like road segments

together into larger projects.

• Estimated 10-15% minimum increase in pavement lifespan thru pavement preservation

Decision Trees

• Decision Nodes can be based on:

• Pavement Performance Indexes (PCR, SCR, RCI)

• Pavement Age

• Environmental Zone • Traffic/Speed

• Specifically designated Parks

Decision Trees

Pavement Types – Two types - Asphalt Concrete

- Portland Cement Concrete Functional Classes – Four Groups

- Group A – NPS Functional Class 7 (Urban Parkways) - Group B – FC 1 (Principals), FC 2 (Connectors) &

FC 8 (City Streets)

- Group C – FC 3 (Special), FC 4 (Primitive) & FC 5 (Administrative)

Environmental Zone Pilot Parks

No Freeze Dry Joshua Tree NP

Wet Chickasaw/Natchez Trace

Super Wet Natchez Trace/Blue Ridge

Freeze Dry Glacier NP

Wet Natchez Trace Pkwy

Super Wet Blue Ridge Pkwy

Super Freeze Dry Yellowstone NP

Shapefile Traffic Cycle 2 Condition - 1999 Cycle 3 Condition - 2002 Accidents Background

GIS Prototype

• FHWA has downloaded 204 parks into GIS • Contains Multiple Themes (Layers)

• One Theme for Various Fields in RIP Database

– (Condition, Widths, Traffic, etc…)

• Images Used for Background

– Digital Raster Graphics (DRG) – Digital Ortho Quads (DOQ)

Visidata Tutorial &

Application

Visidata Tutorial

• Guidance on Program Installation and Path settings • Demonstrates the 8 Packaged “Workspaces”

– “Right of Way” – “Panoramic” – “Features” – “0.02 Data” – “1.00 Summary” – “Roughness” – “Rutting” – “Patching” • How to for :

– Creating Charts, Graphs and Grids – Building New “Workspaces”

• Hot Links to:

– Visidata and Tutorial User Guide – CFL Visidata Help Site

– Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 Install

Camera 4

Camera 1 Camera 0 Camera 2

Available Visidata Digital Images - Camera Views

• File Name and Location • Camera Number

• Segment Location

– Park Alpha – Route Number

– Direction (Primary or Opposite)

• Chainage in Miles • Image Modifications

– Use your Cursor to Stretch or Shrink windows

– Drag and Drop to desired locations – Zoom In and Out

Incorporating Asset Management

Into the

Planning Process

• We need to use the management systems as

a tool for Planning and Programming

• We need to incorporate this information

into our short and long range planning for

the Out-Year Program of projects

Current Process

PROGRAMS

OUT-YEAR PROGRAM

Future Process

OUT-YEAR PROGRAM

PLANNING

NPS Facility Management Software System

(FMSS) Data Integration

• NPS and FHWA developing system to

automatically integrate the Road Inventory data into the FMSS system

• FHWA Route ID lists unique Asset numbers for each Route in the parks

• Each Asset has associated pieces of equipment (i.e. road surface, culverts, guard rail, signs, etc.) that are attched to that specific asset.

FMSS Data Integration Continued

• NPS Pavement Management System generates work orders from list of 21 Pavement

Maintenance and Rehabilitation activities • National average costs developed with Park

specific weighted factors for 21 activities

• Actual construction costs fed back into PMS to develop more accurate cost estimates

Park Route Identification/ Link to unique

FMSS Asset Numbers

Road Inventory Program

and Facility Management Software

System (FMSS)

ROAD INVENTORY

DATABASE

Linkage by Unique Identifier

Facility Management Software System FMSS Asset Number # 69216

Route ID, Park Alpha And Route Number