Patent ID: 8725625

Claim:
A capital asset planning system for selecting assets for improvement within an infrastructure comprising: (a) one or more data sources descriptive of the infrastructure; (b) one or more databases, coupled to the one or more data sources, to compile the one or more data sources; (c) one or more processors, each coupled to and having respective communication interfaces to receive data from the one or more databases, the one or more processors comprising a predictor to generate: (i) a first metric of estimated infrastructure effectiveness based, at least in part, on a current status of the infrastructure; (ii) a second metric of estimated infrastructure effectiveness based, at least in part, on a user-selected, proposed changed configuration of the infrastructure; (iii) a net metric of infrastructure effectiveness based, at least in part, on said first metric and said second metric; and (iv) at least one cost metric of the proposed changed configuration of the infrastructure, wherein the at least one cost metric of the proposed changed configuration relates to the assets for improvement; and (d) a user interface module, coupled to have the one or more processors configured to: visually present information comprising: the net metric of infrastructure effectiveness and the at least one cost metric of the proposed changed configuration; and enable a user to select the assets for improvement, wherein the assets for improvement are selected based, at least in part, on the net metric of infrastructure effectiveness and the at least one cost metric of the proposed changed configuration.