Managing transportation assets is about choosing the best quality and most cost-effective solutions to be directed at the right place and at the right time to preserve the integrity of these assets. The Asset Management Plan Trainings presented here offer webinars to provide information to get you started and workshops to help you complete draft asset management plans for your agency. Bridge and Pavement plans will be developed specifically for your agency and serve as useful tools to direct your agency’s asset management decisions. Select information from these plans is condensed into the compliance plan which fulfills the submittal requirements for TAMC.
The hands-on workshops provide participants with templates and assistance in customizing these with agency-specific asset information. Throughout each workshop, instructors and participants will discuss strategies for managing transportation assets and setting management goals. Participants will walk away with a draft of their own, unique asset management plan or the tools to complete the plan that they started during the workshop.
Upcoming Training
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Bridge Asset Management Webinar, Part 1
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Learn basic principles of bridge asset management. | May 3, 2022 | 9:00 - 11:00 AM (ET) | May 1, 2022 | $10 | ctt.nonprofitsoapbox.com/2022bam-part1 |
| Bridge Asset Management Webinar, Part 2 | Learn advanced principles of bridge asset management. | May 4, 2022 | 9:00 - 11:00 AM (ET) | May 1, 2022 | $10 | ctt.nonprofitsoapbox.com/2022bam-part2 |
| Bridge Asset Management Virtual Workshop | Bring your bridge asset data to draft a bridge asset management plan in this hands-on workshop. | May 11, 12, 18 & 19, 2022 | 8:00 - 10:00 AM (ET) | May 1, 2022 | $30 | ctt.nonprofitsoapbox.com/2022bam-workshop |
| Pavement Asset Management Plan Virtual Workshop | Work directly with your pavement asset management plan in this hands-on workshop to improve quality, reduce costs, and be proactive. | May 24-26, 2022 | 9:00 - 12:00 PM Noon (ET) | May 22, 2022 | $30 | ctt.nonprofitsoapbox.com/2022pam-workshop |
| Compliance Plan Webinar | Learn how to use a Word template to merge data and create a compliance plan. | June 14, 2022 | 1:00 - 3:00 PM (ET) | June 13, 2022 | $10 | ctt.nonprofitsoapbox.com/2022complianceplan |
About Asset Management Training
According to Public Act (PA) 325 of 2018, asset management is “an ongoing process of maintaining, preserving, upgrading, and operating physical assets cost effectively, based on a continuous physical inventory and condition assessment and investment to achieve established performance goals”. To care for Michigan’s road, bridge, culvert, and traffic signal assets in the most effective and efficient manner, PA 325 requires local agencies with 100 or more certified lane miles to develop an asset management plan that summarizes asset inventory and conditions, performance goals, revenues and expenses, risk of failure, and coordination efforts with other entities or asset owners. This core “compliance plan” should include supporting data, which may consist of asset-specific asset management plans. Local agency staff and their consultants can take advantage of trainings offered through the Michigan LTAP.
Bridge Asset Management Training
Bridges are important transportation assets, traversing rivers and valleys to create connections—sometime vital connections—in the road network. Using the principles of asset managements, these costly structures can be managed and maintained efficiently and effectively. Local agency personnel who manage bridge assets and/ or their consultants can get strategies and tools for managing bridge assets in this training. This training begins with two webinars: The first webinar introduces participants to bridge asset management and addresses both the evaluation of bridge condition and its related needs and maintenance operations. The second webinar covers cost estimating and optimization of bridge preservation actions. Participants will learn how these knowledge areas come together in a bridge asset management plan. Then, the hands-on workshop portion of the training provides participants with templates and guides them in customizing the templates with agency-specific asset information. Participants will walk away with the tools to complete their own, unique asset management plan. Local agency personnel who manage and maintain bridges and their consults will benefit from this training.
Pavement Asset Management Training
Managing pavement assets is about choosing the best-quality, most cost-effective solutions directed at the right place at the right time. To preserve the integrity of our pavement assets, data alone is not enough: being proactive by having an asset management plan in place for maintenance and corrective solutions helps agencies to realize their asset management goals. Local agency personnel who make asset management decisions and/or their consultants can receive guidance and tools for proactively managing their pavement assets in this training. This training is a hands-on workshop that provides participants with templates and guides them in customizing the templates with agency-specific asset information. Throughout the workshop, instructors and participants will discuss strategies for managing pavement assets and setting management goals. Participants will walk away with a draft of their own, unique asset management plan or the tools to complete the plan that they started during the workshop.
Compliance Plan Training
This webinar will help local agency personnel and/or their consultants to produce a “compliance plan”—a transportation asset management plan that contains information required to comply with PA325. Participants will learn how to use a Word document template of the compliance plan and the tools to merge their data into the template. Appendixes containing supporting detail about the compliance plan information will be covered in the bridge and pavement trainings.