California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology

With the planning, design, construction, integration, and operation of transportation management centers and intelligent transportation system (ITS) technologies spreading throughout the country, various agencies are responsible for operating and maintaining these complex and expensive systems. One of the challenges associated with these systems is tracking the maintenance history of the various system hardware components to determine the actual cost of maintaining these systems using a long-term perspective. This cost information can then be used for a variety of purposes, including determining the reliability and cost-effectiveness of individual hardware components, estimating the benefit-cost ratios of these systems and components, and justifying the request of maintenance funds and the use of those funds for IT systems.