Using the Custom Outline Builder

The custom TAMP outline builder allows you to customize the structure and contents of your TAMP outline. The process for creating a custom outline is simple.

1. You start with the minimal MAP-21-compliant outline. The Basic TAMP Outline should reflect the minimum requirements established by MAP-21. This outline contains the following sections:
   1. Introduction
      The introduction section of your TAMP orients your reader to the purpose, goals, and contents of the document. It includes an overview of your agency’s mission and goals, and a high-level description of your agency’s assets and their role in serving your customers, serving the economy, and creating vital communities.
   2. Inventory and Condition
      The Inventory and Condition section of your TAMP provides an overview of the assets your agency is responsible for, and a high level description of the current conditions of those assets (e.g. materials, components, age, condition rating, and replacement value).
   3. Objectives and Measures
      The Objectives and Measures section of your TAMP provides an overview of the measures that you are using to track and manage your assets’ performance.
   4. Performance Assessment
      The Performance Assessment section of your TAMP describes how your agency is doing with respect to measures, objectives and level of service goals that relate to asset management.
   5. Lifecycle Planning
      The Lifecycle Planning section of your TAMP describes your agency’s process for management of the lifecycle of your assets.
   6. Risk Management
      The Risk Management section of your TAMP will discuss the concept of risk, how your agency has incorporated it into TAM, and the ways in which the consideration of risk informs maintenance practices, asset replacement or rehabilitation, and emergency response.
   7. Financial Plan
      The Financial Plan section of your TAMP includes details of the funding available for TAM activities, and the how it has been programmed, to date.
   8. Investment Strategies
      The Investment Strategies section of your TAMP describes the process by which your agency translates your data, objectives, measures and policies into decisions about how to spend its constrained resources.
   9. Process Improvements
      The Process Improvements section of your TAMP provides a description of any methods in which your agency is engaged that are designed to measure, and provide input for improvements, to your TAM practice.
2. Then you select the additional sections that meet your agency’s requirements. The additional sections include:
   1. Regulatory and Legislative Requirements
      The Regulatory and Legislative Requirements section of your TAMP provides an overview of those state and federal requirements that impact aspects of your TAMP.
   2. Data Management
      The Data Management section of your TAMP is an overview of how your agency acquires, updates, processes, stores and reports asset data.
   3. Levels of Service
      The Levels of Service (LOS) section of your TAMP describes the capacity at which each of your assets are operating. The measurement used to express LOS is directly linked to, and expressed consistently with, your performance measures.
   4. Future Demand
      The Future Demand section of your TAMP paints a picture of how, and by how much, your state expects to grow at a given point on the horizon (e.g. twenty years out).
   5. Current Methods and Tools
      The Current Methods and Tools Section of your TAMP describes the set of tools your agency uses to conduct your asset management activities, support your decisions, and provide the analysis needed for all reporting requirements.
   6. Environmental Sustainability
      The Environmental Sustainability section of your TAMP provides an overview of your agency’s efforts toward incorporating environmental concerns, conditions, and impacts into your transportation asset management processes.
   7. Asset Valuation
      The Asset Valuation section of your TAMP provides a description of how your agency determines the value of your assets. It also includes the current, estimated value of each of your assets.
   8. Communication and Reporting
      The Communication and Reporting section of your TAMP describes the methods by which your agency provides relevant TAM information to partner agencies, stakeholders, and customers.
3. Next, you have the option of adding agency-specific criteria that will be reflected in the guidance and references that accompany your outline.
4. Finally, you submit your response and receive your outline by email.

Additional detail on the basic TAMP outline is available here.