While roads and bridges often receive the greater part of an agency’s maintenance budget, other assets – like culverts, guardrails, impact attenuators and pavement stripes – also need routine maintenance that can benefit from data-backed decisions.
To better understand the costs and benefits of collecting and maintaining data for any asset it owns, the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development initiated a research project to develop a methodology and tool to make tracking costs and quantifying benefits easier.
Read the two-page technical summary: Determining the True Cost and Benefit for Collecting and Maintaining Non-Road and Non-Bridge Asset Data, April 2022
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