Committee on Maintenance


Acronym: COM
Category: Program Delivery and Operations

Actions

Table Index Action Objectives Catalysts
1 Lead outreach and marketing efforts for the updated Maintenance Manual releasing in 2025.
  • Advance a safe, multimodal transportation system
  • Connect community, economy, land use and the environment
  • Advance equity and social justice
  • Deliver a proactive policy platform for the future
  • Be the trusted developers and keepers of transportation standards and guidance
  • Improve asset performance
  • Strengthen resiliency
  • Align transportation interests across partners and regions
  • Evaluate emerging trends in technologies, policies and practices
  • Communicate the value of transportation
  • Advocate for sustainable funding
  • Promote a broad range of thoughts and policies
  • Keep committees relevant and aligned
  • Innovate and modernize products and services
  • Maintain focus on AASHTO’s financial sustainability
  • Maintain focus on the elimination of fatalities and serious injuries
  • Adopt policy priorities that create a safe and sustainable multimodal transportation system
  • Develop policies and provide resources that support ensuring access to transportation systems for everyone
  • Seek transportation funding innovations
  • Advocate to minimize the impacts of climate change
  • Apply scenario planning to better weigh options in decision-making
  • Be intentionally inclusive as transportation policies are formed
  • Promote the use of AASHTO standards and guidance across all transportation organizations
  • Collaborate to support equity and social justice objectives
  • Work together with partners to share information and efforts
  • Collaborate with local agencies
  • Work with Congress and the administration to advance policies
  • Develop next generation of leaders and workforce
  • Provide resources to meet evolving business needs
  • Create a workplace culture of innovation and continuous improvement
  • Expand capacity-building products and services
  • Provide knowledge management resources
  • Engage new CEOs and members
  • Create opportunities for members to network and share knowledge
  • Engage more levels of staff from member organizations including non-voting members and friends
  • Better communicate policy goals to members and local partners
  • Catalog and provide easy access to materials
  • Promote diversity in all activities
  • Deliver timely processes and decision-making
  • Utilize technology to better serve members
  • Improve AASHTO’s digital presence
  • Review and refresh older products
2 Continue to collect maintenance performance measures from the states
  • Strengthen resiliency
  • Be the trusted developers and keepers of transportation standards and guidance
  • Innovate and modernize products and services
  • Work together with partners to share information and efforts
  • Catalog and provide easy access to materials
3 Continue working with CTSO to support the use of CAV to enhance work zone safety
  • Advance a safe, multimodal transportation system
  • Evaluate emerging trends in technologies, policies and practices
  • Innovate and modernize products and services
  • Maintain focus on the elimination of fatalities and serious injuries
  • Adopt policy priorities that create a safe and sustainable multimodal transportation system
  • Work together with partners to share information and efforts
  • Improve the collaboration platforms used by committees and staff to facilitate engagement between members and staff
  • Encourage cross-discipline learning and information sharing among staff
4 Provide support for NCHRP Synthesis on Road Closure Strategies and Tools to Facilitate Proactive Management of Highways due to Extreme Weather Events such as Snow, Ice, Flooding, Winds, etc.
  • Advance a safe, multimodal transportation system
  • Improve asset performance
  • Strengthen resiliency
  • Align transportation interests across partners and regions
  • Evaluate emerging trends in technologies, policies and practices
  • Advocate for sustainable funding
  • Promote a broad range of thoughts and policies
  • Be the trusted developers and keepers of transportation standards and guidance
  • Innovate and modernize products and services
  • Maintain focus on the elimination of fatalities and serious injuries
  • Adopt policy priorities that create a safe and sustainable multimodal transportation system
  • Create methods to better connect transportation research to policies and implementation
  • Develop policies and provide resources that support ensuring access to transportation systems for everyone
  • Seek transportation funding innovations
  • Apply scenario planning to better weigh options in decision-making
  • Promote the use of AASHTO standards and guidance across all transportation organizations
  • Collaborate to support equity and social justice objectives
  • Work together with partners to share information and efforts
  • Collaborate with local agencies
  • Work with Congress and the administration to advance policies
  • Engage new CEOs and members
  • Create opportunities for members to network and share knowledge
  • Engage more levels of staff from member organizations including non-voting members and friends
  • Better communicate policy goals to members and local partners
  • Catalog and provide easy access to materials
  • Deliver timely processes and decision-making
  • Utilize technology to better serve members
  • Review and refresh older products
5 Hold National/Regional Snow and Ice Performance Measure Implementation Workshop(s)
  • Strengthen resiliency
  • Work together with partners to share information and efforts
  • Collaborate with local agencies
  • Develop next generation of leaders and workforce
  • Provide resources to meet evolving business needs
  • Expand capacity-building products and services
  • Create opportunities for members to network and share knowledge
  • Utilize technology to better serve members
6 Continue to support NCHRP research for the use of nonchemical methods for removal of snow and ice from roadways
  • Advance a safe, multimodal transportation system
  • Strengthen resiliency
  • Evaluate emerging trends in technologies, policies and practices
  • Maintain focus on the elimination of fatalities and serious injuries
  • Adopt policy priorities that create a safe and sustainable multimodal transportation system
  • Create methods to better connect transportation research to policies and implementation
  • Collaborate with local agencies
  • Encourage cross-discipline learning and information sharing among staff
  • Utilize technology to better serve members
7 Continue to support EDC Initiatives, including Weather Savvy EDC-4 and Weather Responsive Management Strategies EDC-5
  • Advance a safe, multimodal transportation system
  • Strengthen resiliency
  • Build transportation workforce capabilities
  • Maintain focus on the elimination of fatalities and serious injuries
  • Adopt policy priorities that create a safe and sustainable multimodal transportation system
  • Provide resources to meet evolving business needs
  • Create a workplace culture of innovation and continuous improvement
  • Encourage cross-discipline learning and information sharing among staff
  • Utilize technology to better serve members
8 Continue to support development of Best Management Practices for Prevention and Cleanup of Illegal Camping on State Highway Rights of Way with NCHRP.
  • Advance a safe, multimodal transportation system
  • Strengthen resiliency
  • Evaluate emerging trends in technologies, policies and practices
  • Maintain focus on the elimination of fatalities and serious injuries
  • Adopt policy priorities that create a safe and sustainable multimodal transportation system
  • Collaborate to support equity and social justice objectives
  • Encourage cross-discipline learning and information sharing among staff
  • Utilize technology to better serve members
  • Review and refresh older products