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CAMBRIDGE SYSTEMATICS

Managing transportation assets can be difficult. What is the current condition of my

asset inventory? What will it look like in the future? How much will we need to spend to

improve and maintain the assets? Where do we prioritize investments? These are some

of the questions you may find yourself grappling with. They’re also the types of ques-

tions Transportation Asset Management (TransAM) can help you answer.

Simplifying Asset Management for Public Transportation Agencies

TRANSPORTATION ASSET MANAGEMENT PLATFORM

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Fe ature-rich, Low-cost tr ansportation asset ManageMent

TransAM is the first fully open source software platform for managing transportation assets. As an open source solution, TransAM provides a low-cost, license-free alternative to proprietary asset management systems. Specifically designed to address the unique challenges of asset management within public transportation agencies, the platform is feature rich, including a variety of industry-standard models such as TERMLite, to forecast asset condition and replacement cycles, quantify capital needs, and develop and implement state-of-good-repair policies. TransAM accommodates all types of transpor-tation-related assets, including rolling stock, rail, facilities, shelters, signage and other infrastructure, maintenance equipment, communications equipment, and computers and software.

tr a nsaM aLLow s You to: » Reduce total cost of asset ownership –

Preserve capital, reduce maintenance costs, and extend the life of assets.

» Improve operational efficiency – Consolidate existing asset management applications; integrate with legacy and future third-party systems; and export data and reports to Microsoft Excel.

» Support compliance – Comply with Federal, state, and local regulations and reporting require-ments, including a commitment to comply with MAP-21 requirements once formalized.

» Enhance visibility – Improve communications and project coordination across internal depart-ments and with external organizations. Track assets owned by multiple agencies and manage outsourced activities such as vehicle maintenance.

» Streamline capital planning – Track funding sources and funding levels; apply service-life models across long- and short-term planning horizons; and identify and track backlog, ongoing, and future needs.

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Reagan Lynn 850.570.6630 rlynn@camsys.com

www.camsys.com

Open Source | Open Minds

Open source systems bring many benefits: you pay no license fees, your agency is free to customize the software as needed, and changes and updates can be freely shared between agencies. Implement systems with in-house staff, or with assistance from a competitive market of vendors and cloud computing providers. TransAM is one of several open source platforms that is becoming widely adopted among the transit community, along with OpenTripPlanner (trip planning), OneBusAway (real-time transit information), and the 1-Click|CS mobility platform (mobility management).

Cambridge Systematics, Inc. specializes in transportation and is dedicated to ensuring that transportation investments deliver the best possible results.

TRANSPORTATION ASSET MANAGEMENT PLATFORM

Simplifying Asset Management for Public Transportation Agencies

TransAM includes a comprehensive hierarchical asset inventory database. Assets are organized by class, then by type and subtype. The system can manage any type of transportation asset, including rolling stock, rail, facilities, shelters, signage and other infrastructure, maintenance equipment, communications equipment and computers and software.

The database can be maintained by direct data entry through any web-enabled mobile device or computer via bulk data upload, or through the use of import/export facilities or direct application programming interfaces (API) for integrating with other systems.

Updates to assets are stored as events that can be tracked over time.

Work orders can be created against an asset and photographs or other digital documents can be associated with the asset such as titles, registrations, engineering specifications, maintenance records, damage reports and notices of sale.

Planning partners, funding partners, state authorities, transportation agencies and asset owners all are networked into the user hierarchy.

Each user can be assigned a specialized role to access only the modules and data necessary for the individual’s function. Users have dashboards customized to their unique roles.

TransAM associates asset purchases and other activities such as rehabilitation, routine maintenance, replacement and final disposition with a variety of Federal, state and local funding programs.

The system allows managers and decision-makers to report on the use of various funding sources across the asset inventory as a whole, as well as to track the use of public-sector funds over the lifecycle of individual assets.

TransAM includes customizable asset deterioration models along with replacement and rehabilitation policies. Based on these agency-specific models and policies, the system can project future capital outlays required to maintain a state of good repair.

TransAM includes open source mapping tools and also can integrate with external mapping services compatible with the OGC Web Map Service, such as ESRI’s ArcGIS Server or Geoserver, making it possible to generate asset maps at any level of geography.

Detailed reports on asset inventories, state of good repair, funding sources and funding projections can be configured within the software and viewed in a browser, downloaded as spreadsheets, or saved as PDFs.

Most agencies have legacy systems, such as accounting or maintenance record systems, which are valuable to connect with TransAM. Configuring TransAM to integrate with such systems – either through simple data export/import routines or via more sophisticated application programming interfaces that facilitate automated data transfers – is a common element for most TransAM deployments.

Asset Inventory

Asset Life Cycle

User Types

Asset Funding

Planning and Forecasting

Mapping and Reporting

Integration