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Overview

After participating in this course, you will be able to:

• Create comprehensive databases to store and manage asset network and condition data.
• Develop predictive models to forecast future asset performance and maintenance needs.
• Identify and prioritize essential maintenance and rehabilitation tasks.
• Establish cost-effective investment strategies and budgets for infrastructure projects.
• Analyze the impact of funding variations on asset preservation and overall performance.

Description
Understanding and managing transportation assets is vital for ensuring the efficient and safe movement of people and goods. Municipalities face significant challenges as the demands on our infrastructure grow with expanding road networks, increasing commercial vehicle traffic, and tightening budgets. Addressing these challenges requires innovative strategies to maintain and enhance our infrastructure effectively, preventing deterioration and extending the lifespan of essential transportation routes.

Municipal and local governments are responsible for maintaining transportation infrastructure. These entities are often stretched thin with limited financial resources and a lack of specialized technical expertise. The shift from rural to urban living has further intensified this burden, placing the maintenance of most roadways on local governments. These challenges highlight the need for advanced asset management practices to allocate resources and manage infrastructure efficiently.

In this course, you will explore the evolution and principles of modern transportation asset management, which began in the late 1970s. You will learn how to assess asset conditions accurately, predict future performance, and determine maintenance and rehabilitation needs. By understanding and applying these practices, you will be equipped to manage roadways, parking lots, and trails more effectively, ensuring high service and cost-efficiency in maintaining transportation infrastructure.

Who Should Attend
This course is ideal for pavement network owners and administrators, engineers and technicians involved in pavement design, evaluation, and management, and consultants specializing in pavement condition assessment.

It is also highly relevant to provincial, municipal, and local agencies responsible for roadway maintenance, airport owners and maintenance staff, and professionals involved in specifying and purchasing pavement testing and evaluation equipment.

Special Features
Participants will benefit from structured course materials and ample opportunities to explore specific areas of interest. The course employs discussions, case studies, and real-world examples to enhance understanding and applicability. The focus on practical, actionable insights ensures that attendees can immediately apply what they've learned to their work environments, fostering a culture of holistic asset management.

Course Benefits

• Understanding of basic asset management systems, data collection, performance prediction and investment needs
• It provides procedures on how to determine, document and justify funding needs for pavement preservation and rehabilitation
• It provides directions on how to prepare prioritized, needs-based budgets
• Promotes the de-construction of asset silos and advancement of the culture of holistic transportation asset management
• Highlights the need for highly qualified team members to foster the culture of asset management
• Promotes the use of best practices and provides a benchmark for asset preservation decision-making
• Provides objective pavement preservation needs and has a long-term impact on budget decisions

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Syllabus

 Syllabus 

This course covers:

• History of road design and construction in Canada
• Principles of Transportation Asset Management
• Field data collection technology/methods
• Methods and equipment to measure pavement surface condition (manual, semi-automated, automated)
• Pavement surface distress identification
• Assessment of pavement surface roughness
• Structural capacity evaluation (deflection testing, ground penetrating radar)
• Risk management
• Life-cycle planning
• Life-cycle cost analysis
• Fostering the culture of transportation asset management
• Training needs
• Pavement management
• Pavement distress data collection
• Performance model development
• Pavement preservation to improve asset performance
• Management of sidewalks and recreational trails
• Impact of design and construction features on pavement performance

Instructor

David Hein, P.Eng

David is a consulting Civil Engineer with over 38 years of experience in designing, evaluating and managing transportation infrastructure. He is the past president of the American Society of Civil Engineers Transportation and Development Institute (ASCE T&DI), chair of the Workforce Development and Codes and Standards Councils and chair of 5 engineering standards committees. He is a long-term member of the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC), Past-Chair of the pavements committee and member of the Soils and Materials and Asset Management Committees.

He is also a member of the Workforce Development Council and Chair of the Professional Development Committee. He is also a past member of the Transportation Research Board pavement management, pavement maintenance and pavement preservation committees. He has represented Canada on the World Road Association (WRA) pavements and asset management committees since 2002 and is currently the Chair of the Canadian National Committee to the WRA. He recently stepped down after 10 years as Executive Director of the Falling Weight Deflectometer User Group.

He has been involved in numerous national and international research, evaluation and asset management projects for Federal, State, Provincial and Municipal agencies and many of the public/private/ partnership highway construction projects across Canada and the United States.