Use of transportation asset management principles in state highway agencies.

Transportation asset management is a strategic approach to managing transportation infra-structure. It focuses on business processes for resource allocation and utilization with the objective of better decision making based on quality information and well-defined objec-tives. This study reports the current state of practice for asset management among state departments of transportation (DOTs). (Author/publisher) This report is available online at http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_syn_439.pdf