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Training

Bridge Management Systems – Infrastructure Asset Management Academy

  • November 9, 2022
  • 9:30 am–4:00 pm

A Bridge Management System (BMS) helps agencies manage their infrastructure assets efficiently, justify funding, provide credibility to the program, and meet state and Federal requirements.

NCHRP Report 866, Return on Investment in Transportation Asset Management Systems and Practices provides a study on how agencies have seen value (as Return on Investment (ROI) from analytical transportation asset management, including seeing the value of preservation, and identifying methods such as benefit-cost analysis that quantifies this value.
This course will provide attendees an overview of what a BMS is and how a BMS can help bridge owners justify needed funds, allocate money to programs, forecast condition and performance to understand and plan for the future, do strategic analysis, select a program of projects that achieve the largest benefit over cost, and help agencies make prioritized cost-effective decisions.

Course Topics:

  1. Welcome and Workshop Introduction
  2. Purpose and Value of Bridge Management Systems
  3. Key Features and Workflow Steps of a BMS
  4.  Inventory and Condition Data; Agency Goals, Objectives and Performance Measures
  5. Deterioration Models
  6. Modeling Actions, Triggers, Costs and Effects
  7. Life‐Cycle Agency Costs and Life‐Cycle Modeling
  8. Life‐Cycle User Costs and Functional Assessment and Improvement Models
  9. Risk Assessment and Mitigation Models
  10. Benefit‐Cost Analysis
  11. Optimization and Prioritization
  12. Investment Strategy Simulation and Investigation
  13. Program and Project Planning and Management
  14. Communication and Reporting
  15. Course Wrap-Up

6 PDH credits are being offered for full completion of this course. This course is being offered at a rate of $100 for private industry employees; $50 for public agency employees; and free for current academic students. On the registration and checkout page, please note the discount codes listed and use as applicable.

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Date & Time

Date
November 9, 2022
Time
9:30 am–4:00 pm

Location

Virtual

Information contact

Ryan Stiesi
>>rps118@soe.rutgers.edu
>>848-445-2910
Asset Management • Condition Assessment • Construction & Design • Materials & Durability • Risk & Resilience • Workforce Development •
Presenters
Richard Dunne, P.E. National Director, Bridge Preservation, Greenman-Pedersen, Inc.
Fee

$100

This course is being offered at a rate of $100 for private industry employees; $50 for public agency employees; and free for current academic students. On the registration and checkout page, please note the discount codes listed and use as applicable.
Credits

6 PDH's
Registration

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