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                R&T Portfolio: Transportation Performance Management
    

    
    
    
      Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is working to advance implementation of transportation performance management (TPM) and related asset management activities, including development and delivery of technologies, analytical tools, guidance, and training for FHWA, State, and local personnel. To enhance the long-term effectiveness of TPM, FHWA is continuing research to advance the understanding of infrastructure performance through long-term pavement and bridge performance research.

Program Objectives:

Improve the overall return on highway transportation investments.
	Achieve and sustain effective implementation of TPM and the supporting asset management requirements.

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        **Asset Management**
        FHWA develops training and technical assistance to improve partner agencies’ asset management and building information management capabilities.

Spotlight Project: Case Studies from State Asset Management Plans

"Vector illustrations of four bridge types - Cantilever, Suspension, Arch, and Aqueduct."

All 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico have developed asset management plans meeting requirements in law and regulation for National Highway System pavements and bridges. This project involved an indepth review of the completed asset management plans to identify opportunities to develop case studies on successful asset management practices. The resulting work produced seven published case studies, including: Asset Management Practices and Benefits; Linking Asset Management to Planning and Programming; Life Cycle Planning Practices; Managing Risks to Assets; Financial Planning and Investment Strategies; Communicating Asset Management Strategies; and Managing Assets Beyond Pavements and Bridges.

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      **Target-Setting Methodologies**
        FHWA conducts research and development to identify and deploy approaches that can be used by highway agencies to set meaningful targets for planning and programming.

Spotlight Project: Leading Indicators Study

"Illustration of a laptop with a graph on the screen and circuitry lines extending out from the top of the computer."

The purpose of the project is to identify, analyze, communicate, and deploy a set of leading indicators of transportation performance. The project will produce a report that shows how transportation agencies can deploy leading indicators to monitor and adjust performance measure targets for the national performance-measurement areas (including infrastructure condition), and lays out an approach that transportation agencies can use to identify, analyze, and select their own leading or lagging indicators to inform investment decisionmaking.

In addition, the work includes the development and testing of a data fusion model for identifying and analyzing leading and lagging indicators using relevant data sources.

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      **Data Analysis**
        FHWA research and development in maintenance and preservation of transportation infrastructure improves the cost-effectiveness and accountability of FHWA and other transportation agencies.

**Spotlight Project:  **Present Serviceability Rating (PSR) Tool****

The National Performance Management Measures for the Assessing Pavement Condition under 23 CFR Part 490 Subpart C allow for the use of PSR as an alternative method to report pavement conditions for Interstate and non-Interstate National Highway System locations where the speed limit is less than 40 mph.

To address stakeholder concerns about the appropriate application of PSR, FHWA developed resources to support agencies that prefer to use PSR as an alternate pavement-condition-rating system, where permitted.

These resources include a report and companion Microsoft® Excel®–based PSR Computation Workbook that provides an approach for estimating PSR from measured surface distress data.  The report also illustrates correlations between commonly used indices and the PSR, as described in the Highway Performance Monitoring System Field Manual.  For information, access the PSR Computation from Reported Distresses Report and Computation Workbook.

**Spotlight Project:  Remaining Service Interval: A Lifecycle Planning Framework for Managing Your Pavement Network**

The remaining service interval (RSI) is a pavement lifecycle-management framework intended to help highway agencies make sound long-term investment decisions. This webinar will outline the fundamental concepts associated with the RSI framework.

The webinar will present the basic process of RSI application and use simple examples to illustrate how the RSI framework can be used to support project- and network-level investment decisions and lifecycle planning.

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