Projecting Infrastructure Renewal Needs and Future Asset Conditions
in the Context of Fiscal Constraints While Optimizing Strategic Goals
Robert L. Peskin
Senior Consulting Manager, Transportation, AECOM
Dr. Peskin will describe an analysis of long-term infrastructure renewal and replacement needs for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) from fiscal years 2011 through 2030. The presentation describes the assembly of the VTA asset inventory, the analytical tool applied to identify capital projects and project annual funding needs, performance measures that address the condition of assets, funding scenarios, and findings. Dr. Peskin will discuss the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) SGR model as the platform to project unconstrained SGR renewal and replacement needs and the impact on future asset condition resulting from different funding levels. The analysis provides insights into the dynamic between project priority score and future condition or age of capital assets, as well as insights into whether current priority scores would be sustainable over the long-term and result in an acceptable state of repair in future years.
Robert L. Peskin, PhD, is Senior Consulting Manager in the transportation consulting practice of AECOM, a global provider of professional technical and management support services to a broad range of markets, including transportation, facilities, environmental, energy, water and government. Dr. Peskin has 34 years of experience in the areas transportation financing, planning, and management. Dr. Peskin prepared the first-ever comprehensive projection of infrastructure renewal needs for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority in the late 1980s. He has subsequently performed similar analyses for the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, Miami Dade Transit. Through the application of the state-of-good-repair model prepared by AECOM for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, he is currently managing comprehensive infrastructure renewal examinations at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. Dr. Peskin earned a BS in Civil Engineering at the University of Maryland and MS and PhD in Civil Engineering from Northwestern University. He is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University. He chairs the Subcommittee on Transit Capital Replacement of the Transportation Research Board.