AssetManager is a visualization tool that enables transportation agencies to explore the performance implications of budget allocation strategies. AssetManager unites forecasts from existing management systems, providing a management-level capability to investigate the implications of budget strategy options. AssetManager was developed by Cambridge Systematics under contract to the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP).

Benefits

• Links together and builds upon the output of existing pavement, bridge, and other agency management systems
• Provides a simple and flexible interface that enables agency staff and senior-level managers to view asset performance in a consistent, integrated fashion
• Provides an integrated network-level assessment and rich visual interface that demonstrates the linkages between funding and performance
• Enables interactive evaluation of the likely impacts of increases or decreases in overall funding, and shifts in fund allocation by asset type, geography, or system
• Targeting capability estimates the budget that is needed to achieve specific performance targets for any asset type and geographic or network category
• Encourages and facilitates exploration of resource allocation tradeoffs, one of the “best practices” of asset management

Features

• Four interactive views to visually link budgets and results: budgeting, targeting, dashboard, and allocation
• Built-in connectors to the Pontis® Bridge Management System and the FHWA’s Highway Economic Requirements System – State Version (HERS-ST)
• Custom connectors facilitate integration with any management system that simulates asset performance over time given a set budget
• Can be integrated with project level planning, budgeting, and performance-based project assessment systems
• Supports up to 25 agency-defined performance measures, four asset types, 12 geographic areas, and 10 defined network subsets

Additional Information

For additional information, contact James Maconochie, Principal, 617 354 0167.