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CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
The Transportation Research Board invites you to submit a proposal to speak at the 2023 Conference on Transportation Asset Management. This event is the industry’s premier opportunity to meet and share asset management experiences. Attendees will include representatives from federal, state, and local transportation agencies; Metropolitan Planning Organizations; public transit agencies; academia; and private industry. This year, the conference organizers are looking for speakers who can present practical and innovative approaches for improving their asset management practice. Of particular interest is the integration of asset management into agency processes, including decision support, change management processes, data governance, workforce development, and communication strategies. TRB welcomes proposals for sessions that encourage interactive, peer-to-peer engagement. This conference will be held in person in Boston, Massachusetts, from July 8-11, 2023.
Topic Areas for Asset Management Abstracts
Actionable Asset Management Plans
Presentations in this topic area will feature implementation strategies, with a focus on integration into other agency processes.
- Asset management as a system to inform decisions.
- Defining and managing for performance.
- Linking asset valuation to decision making.
- Using asset management plans to react to changes in funding and evaluate tradeoffs between potential spending actions.
- Using agency context to develop asset management improvement priorities.
Managing Risks through Asset Management
The committee would like to include presentations regarding the inclusion of assessed risk into the asset management framework. These risks may be financial, strategic, operational, safety hazards, regulatory, climate change/resilience, technological, or environmental in nature. Abstract topics may include:
- Data collection for risk identification and monitoring, and for developing risk-based asset management plans.
- Incorporating risk management into life cycle planning.
- Financial risk and funding uncertainty.
- Uncertainty of system utilization.
- Using asset inventory data, damage history, and risk analysis data to develop projects.
- Evaluating the effectiveness of risk mitigation strategies.
Advancing Sustainability in Asset Management
Asset Management can be used to address an agency’s goals for environmental, financial, and social sustainability. Presentations may include Strategies for dealing with threats from extreme weather events, natural disasters and other events.
- Minimizing costs while maximizing performance through tactical project selection.
- Mitigating the impact of extreme weather events and natural disasters
- Incorporating equity into decision support.
- Evaluating the impact of incorporating new technologies into your operation (such as zero-emission fleets.)
- Resiliency for Cyber security threats.
- Evaluating the impact of investments against agency sustainability goals.
Organizing for Asset Management
Presentations should focus on efforts to make asset management a long-term, sustainable practice in organizations.
- Using asset management as a catalyst in Organizational Transformation to drive strategic outcomes.
- Creating organizational alignment and driving cultural change through formalized asset management frameworks, governance and principles.
- Bridging diverse organizational perspectives through asset management.
- Developing asset management teams at your organization.
- Developing an asset management culture.
How to Submit an Abstract
Practitioners at all levels of asset management maturity are welcome to share their experiences with the industry at this conference. All abstracts should be submitted by October 15, 2022; they should be no longer than 400 words; and should clearly convey the material that will be presented. Submitters will be asked to identify which of the conference themes (Plans, Risk, Sustainability, or Organization) best align with their presentation topic. Submitters will also be asked to indicate their preferred delivery format (poster, lectern, or panel); final designation of the format will be at the discretion of the planning committee. TRB welcomes proposals for sessions that encourage interactive, peer-to-peer engagement.
Questions regarding the call?
Ms. Claire Randall
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