This text provides a logical, consistent, and integrated approach for highway infrastructure asset management using systematic procedures that combine engineering principles with sound business practices and economic theory. This is important at the current time because the concept of asset management has not been fully deployed at most highway agencies – most agencies have only one or two fairly well developed management systems that are intended to serve as the cornerstones of an overall highway management system.

        The text presents an organized, sequential, and coherent didactic structure that combines the relevant tools and techniques for highway infrastructure asset management. This includes a methodology by which highway agencies can combine the several individual management systems (pavement, bridge, congestion, safety, and so on) into a single integrated system, thus enabling the asset manager to carry out integrated management tasks such comparing different projects using their different performance measures, project selection across multiple management systems, and analyzing trade-offs involving the different performance measures, budgets, and risk.

        The book provides the needed material in a single comprehensive text that is not only consistent with current or intended practices in highway asset management, but also takes due cognizance of evolving trends in the highway environment and research findings. The text therefore provides academics and practitioners with a solid set of “how to” methodologies for developing an infrastructure asset management system or enhancing any such existing systems to address a variety of management functions. Furthermore, the text can serve as a central warehouse of reference material lists for persons interested in further study of material beyond what the text provides.