2004 MQA Peer Exchange
A Peer Exchange for all state transportation agencies was held on October 11-13, 2004 in Madison, Wisconsin. The peer exchange was sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration, Office of Asset Management, the Asset Management Pooled Fund Research Program, the states of Wisconsin, Kansas, North Carolina, Missouri, Michigan, Montana, New York, Washington, Wyoming, and others and the Midwest Regional University Transportation Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This peer exchange is also endorsed by the AASHTO Subcommittee on Maintenance.
Links
Final Agenda and Peer Exchange Program (PDF)
Complete Proceedings (PDF) One-Page Summary (PDF)
Details on 2004 Peer Exchange
The two and a half day workshop featured sessions designed to provide as much interaction and sharing of practices as possible. Participants were led through discussion to reach high-level consensus for each session’s topic on: best practices, needs, next steps, and state of the art.
Topics included results of a pre-workshop survey (link to presentation) on the state of the practice in Maintenance Quality Assurance, conducted by MRUTC Associate Director Teresa Adams and keynote addresses by AASHTO Maintenance Subcommittee Chair Carlos Braceras, Utah Department of Transportation and Transportation Asset Management Pooled Fund representative David Vieth of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.
36 states and provinces were represented. All tolled, over 70 attendees participated. The "crown jewel" of the event was an evening reception and "show and tell" featuring the efforts of every state in attendance. This free flowing reception focused on materials that may or may not already be in the Document and Materials Library below.
For more information on this, please contact Jason Bittner at bittner@engr.wisc.edu.
Updates:
All presentations have been added to the Document and Materials Library. Links are provided from the program as well. The listserv is now available.
A brief summary is available here in PDF format.
Photos are available.