Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise Asset Management SystemStatewide, Florida

ClientFlorida’s Turnpike Enterprise

Completion dateOngoing

Services provided • Software design

• Software development

• Maintenance

Awards• Top Prize, Governor’s New

Product Awards, sponsored by Florida Engineering Society – Florida Professional Engineers in Industry, 2007

In the late 1990s, Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise (FTE) established a plan to improve decision support for its renewal and replacement program. This plan resulted in the conception and development of the Turnpike Enterprise Asset Management System (TEAMS), which fosters a consistent and automated approach to management and preservation of infrastructure assets to protect Turnpike bondholder investment and sustain system expenditure at an optimal cost.

TEAMS was designed and developed by Atkins to support the mission of FTE. This enterprise-wide, web-based

asset management system uses GIS technology to provide maps and advanced reporting capabilities to meet information delivery requirements and offer current information to more than 300 Turnpike personnel. The program involves the entire Turnpike system, including $4.2 billion in renewable capital infrastructure assets on the 460 centerline miles of the limited-access highways. This is the fourth longest toll system in the U.S. and the longest in Florida.

TEAMS offers a computerized means to catalog the Turnpike’s assets, evaluate current conditions, predict time for renewal and replacement, and

develop appropriate required budgets. The system resides in centralized servers, and users access it via the Turnpike intranet using a graphical web-browser interface, provid-ing an efficient means of identifying, tracking, and maintaining their assets from the user’s desktop. With this type of information readily available on a centralized system, FTE can plan and budget more accurately and provide faster service and response to questions from FTE staff, management, and the patrons they serve. This system is allowing FTE to accurately account for assets, store and retrieve pertinent details about the assets, and proactively develop prudent maintenance and replacement programs.

TEAMS is arranged in integrat-ed modules that include pavement, roadway assets (light poles, signs, guardrails, fencing, barrier walls, and impact attenuators), structures (bridges, high-mast light towers, sign supports, and non-qualify-ing culverts), and facility assets (buildings, elevators, roofs, telephone systems, HVAC systems, storage tanks, backflow preventers, and towers).

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A video log module was also developed that simulates “driving” by FTE’s assets. TEAMS is a Java enterprise application serving HTML files to users. The TEAMS mapping component is powered by Google Maps. This includes full access to the Turnpike’s georeferenced aerial image library. Tabular asset data is stored in an Oracle relational database and is displayed in TEAMS using Crystal Reports Enterprise. Reports are exportable to either Adobe Acrobat PDF or Microsoft Excel file formats for increased versatility. Site diagrams, inspection report documents, and other files are scanned and stored as Adobe Acrobat PDF files, and links to these files are automatically included on the asset de-tail views and reports. Data is routinely “mined” from ancillary data management systems to preclude duplication of pre-existing functional processes. These systems include:

• PONTIS, a bridge management application

• Work Program

• Roadway Characteristics Inventory (RCI)

• Infor EAM (formerly Datastream 7i) computerized maintenance management system

The first phase of TEAMS was completed in 2002 and is used daily by Turnpike personnel. Since deployment of the initial system, Atkins has continued to provide maintenance and enhancement ser-vices for TEAMS including new features and modules for:

• Safety. Provides analytical tools to report and visualize crash data on a per-system component segment length basis.

• Permittracking. Composed of a permits management environment, which grants the user the ability to add, edit, or view permit conditions and checklists related to existing projects.

• Planslog. Includes finalized plans in a searchable image format using the standard region select tool.

• Asbestos,lead-basedpaint,andmoldinspectiontracking. Consists of an organized collection of reports that stores related information for specific buildings throughout the Turnpike.

Recognized in the trade press as a first for the toll industry, TEAMS won a “first” for the Turnpike. In 2007, FTE and Atkins jointly accepted the top prize in the Large Company Category of the Governor’s New Product Award competition, an award sponsored by the Florida Professional Engineers in Indus-try, a practice section of the Florida Engineering Society. In the 22-year history of the program at that point, this was the first time that a public agency had won this prestigious honor.

Completed in 2007, Atkins continues to provide maintenance support on this project.

Florida’sTurnpikeEnterpriseAssetManagementSystemStatewide, Florida

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