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TRB seeks best practices in GIS-based asset management


 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Transportation Research Board’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) issued a request for proposals to develop guidance for how state departments of transportation and other transportation agencies can enhance their asset-management capabilities through effective adoption of geographic information systems (GIS) technologies and encourage more extensive adoption of GIS technologies by conducting pilot demonstrations and workshops on implementation of GIS-based asset management. Proposals are due Nov. 11, 2011.

The research has the following objectives:
• develop guidance for how DOTs and other transportation agencies can enhance their asset-management capabilities through effective adoption of GIS technologies; and
• encourage more extensive adoption of GIS technologies by conducting pilot demonstrations and workshops on implementation of GIS-based asset management.

The guidance should have two parts: a presentation for senior DOT leadership providing the business case for investment in GIS technologies; and a presentation for practitioners of information on lessons learned from current practice, approaches to evaluating benefits of adoption of GIS technologies, and strategies for how an agency can effectively apply GIS technologies in transportation asset management.

More information is available at http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=3161.

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