Preliminary study of Alabama department of transportation's use of a computerized maintenance management system

Abstract

The Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) Maintenance Bureau is responsible for conducting effective and efficient highway maintenance operations throughout the state. A primary maintenance objective is to ensure efficient utilization of resources in the accomplishment of maintenance activities. In 2011, the Maintenance Bureau upgraded software programs used to collect and store data related to daily maintenance activities. Specifically, a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) and a statistical software package were acquired. The reason for purchasing the new systems was to improve budgeting performance through maintenance data collection and analysis. This study has two main objectives: to evaluate statewide use of the program towards daily maintenance projects and to assist the Bureau in developing methods for analyzing the collected data. This paper reports the research project’s findings while assessing the programs’ usage and identifies techniques to enhance the benefit of the large amount of quality data being captured daily in the Maintenance Bureau’s computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) entitled RoadMAP. The techniques developed will specifically target increasing efficiency and effectiveness of the budgeting process without burdening the current process. (Published By University of Alabama Libraries