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Transportation Asset Management Case Studies
Life-Cycle Cost Analysis: The Georgia Experience

Table of Contents

• Note From the Director
• Note to the Reader
• Executive Summary
• 1. Agency Facts
• 2. Setting the Stage
  • 2.1. What Did Georgia Have?
  • 2.2. What Did Georgia Want?
• 3. How Did Georgia There?
  • 3.1. The LCCA Process
• 4. Where Is Georgia Today?
• 5. What Has Georgia Learned?
• 6. What's Next?
• List of Figures
  • Figure 1: A ridge route in rural Georgia.
  • Figure 2: Rush-hour traffic on Georgia 400.
  • Figure 3: Wildflowers along I-75 in Bartow County.
  • Figure 4: The user costs analysis input sheet, one of numerous customized spreadsheets developed by GDOT to conduct an LCCA.
  • Figure 5: Project Development Framework.
  • Figure 6: Aerial view of downtown Atlanta, including Turner Field.
  • Figure 7: The total score breakdown per decision factor from Georgia's LCCA on I-85.
• List of Tables
  • Table 1: The decision matrix for Georgia's LCCA on I-85.

FRONT COVER PHOTO: The I-285/I-85 Interchange in Atlanta, better known as 'Spaghetti Junction.'

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