Laserfiche WebLink
System Elements <br />Effectively preserve and manage to <br />increase the efficiency and capacity of <br />our transportation system <br />The following system elements are employed by the <br />county to maintain our system in a state of good repair <br />and to manage our system to improve traffic flow, <br />safety, accessibility, air quality, and the movement of <br />goods, people and information. <br />Asset Management <br />System Safety <br />Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS) <br />Functional Classification <br />Jurisdictional Transfers <br />Right -of -Way Preservation <br />Access Management <br />Travel Demand Management (TDM) <br />Transportation asset management is a process of <br />evaluating, maintaining and improving our <br />transportation assets in a cost-effective manner to <br />maximize their useful life. How we operate our system <br />impacts how frequently as asset needs to be replaced. <br />Asset Management provides a solid foundation from <br />which to monitor the transportation system and <br />optimize the preservation, upgrading and timely <br />replacement of highway assets through cost-effective <br />management, programming and resource allocation <br />decisions <br />Continuous monitoring of assets enables us to make <br />proactive, data -driven decisions about how to use <br />available resources for maximum benefits to our <br />system. <br />The health of our county transportation system is <br />currently ranked at fair to good, which means most of <br />our assets are operating as they should, with some <br />maintenance needed to increase their overall service <br />life. <br />While our current ranking is fair to good, roughly one <br />third of our system is more than 50 years old, requiring <br />an estimated $2 billion to maintain, upgrade or replace. <br />Asset Management Program <br />Hennepin County has established an asset <br />management program that is intended to evaluate, <br />maintain, and improve the transportation system in a <br />cost-effective manner throughout the life -cycle of the <br />infrastructure. Transportation assets are divided into five <br />groups used for analyzing, reporting and programming <br />improvements and/or maintenance. The five groups <br />include:1) roadway pavement; 2) traffic; 3) drainage; 4) <br />roadside; and bridges. Within the groups there are 28 <br />asset categories that have specific attributes used to <br />evaluate the condition and remaining service life of a <br />particular asset. Details of the program are contained in <br />the Asset Management Report, 2017 <br />37 <br />