GEOTECHNICAL ASSET MANAGEMENT (GAM)
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Transportation Asset Management (TAM) is a “strategic and systematic process of operating, maintaining, upgrading and expanding physical assets effectively throughout their life cycle. It focuses on business and engineering practices for resource allocation and utilization, with the objective of better decision making based on quality information and well defined objectives.”
Geotechnical Asset Management (GAM) applies these principles to geotechnical assets such as rock and soil slopes, embankments, retaining walls, rockfall mitigation installations, etc. TRB’s Geotechnical Asset Management Subcommittee AKG00(1) was formed to “encourage research on GAM topics and to facilitate a free flow of information” related to GAM. The GAM Subcommittee provides a forum for sharing and developing research needs and providing information about GAM and its role in the broader aspects of TAM. |
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