Deighton Associates Limited, developer of the dTIMS (Deighton Total Infrastructure Asset Management System), is delighted to announce that we have been awarded the contract to supply the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans), in partnership with the Vermont Agency of Administration (AOA), and the Department of Buildings and General Services (BGS) heretofore referred to as “Vermont” with an Asset Management Information System (VAMIS). The solution will provide Vermont with sound maintenance, preservation and rehabilitation strategies and the ability to schedule, track, and manage its investment decisions. The project commenced during the last quarter of 2019.
The VAMIS solution will greatly increase Vermont’s ability to make risk based, performance based, and data driven decisions. Having key information and data available to use and to share on a network level will enable Vermont to manage its assets holistically and proactively.
Deighton Director of Business Development, Gary Ruck, said
"Deighton has been working in partnership with VTrans since 1994. This relationship has brought forth an asset management system that supports economic growth and empowers prosperity. With the VAMIS solution, Vermont will again push the boundaries of asset management and continue to take a leading role in innovative asset management technology.”
The VAMIS solution will benefit Vermont in the following areas:
Cost savings:
Through development of a common asset registry that serves all stakeholders and maintains the system of record for all asset data
Through identifying and performing the right treatment on the right asset at the right time
Through the development of an optimized Life-Cycle Cost Analysis allowing Vermont to get maximum life out of every asset
Through a corridor view of all asset needs to ensure coordinated efforts while minimizing undue service delays
Enhanced Customer Service:
Through the establishment of an enterprise central data registry for public and secured viewing
Through increased accessibility to data
Through increased transparency and accountability in objective decision-making
By promoting the use of current and valid data throughout Vermont
Risk Reduction:
By having readily accessible asset data and information, which greatly reduces the financial and operational risks by providing the ability to track effort, time and dollars spent on each asset
By enabling Vermont to examine future life cycle costs, which increases the quality of its asset management decisions
Compliance:
- Maintaining alignment and compliance with newly established federal transportation performance rules required to maintain minimum bridge and pavement condition levels on the National Highway System.
The dTIMS Enterprise Suite is a solution with an open framework that can be configured according to the specific requirements of any agency and include all asset classes. For Vermont, this will include: pavements, bridges, large and small culverts, buildings, signals, rock slopes, guardrails, stormwater, retaining walls, rumble strips, signs and more.
dTIMS is the primary system used by 24 State DOTs in the United States and national agencies throughout the world. Deighton is a strong advocate of compiling best practices garnered from its experience of working with many State DOTs and using this information to the benefit of Vermont both in terms of an expedited schedule and to produce a state-of-the-art asset management system.