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2000 TRB ANNUAL MEETING CALL FOR PAPERS
Asset Management and Administrative Reform: Lessons from Innovations in
Transportation and Other Infrastructure Sectors
The Transportation Research Board Committee on Strategic Management (A1AO7)
is calling for papers on asset management and administrative reform.
The last decade has unleashed an explosion of interest in and experience
with management and administrative reform in government agencies. U.S.
examples include the National Performance Review, Reinventing Government
initiatives, and the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993.
Similar public sector reforms are appearing in Korea, the United Kingdom,
New Zealand, Canada, France, Brazil, Australia and Sweden. A common theme of
these reforms is the use of the market as a model for political and
administrative relationships.
One of the key organizing concepts of administrative reform in
infrastructure organizations is "asset management," which refers broadly to
a customer focus and a systematic process for maintaining, upgrading and
operating facilities (some definitions extend to include investment tradeoff
analysis). Asset management initiatives underway in a number of agencies and
professional associations and asset management principles are widely used in
other infrastructure sectors (e.g., telecommunications and energy).
A broad range of papers will be considered, but they should have in common a
concern with approaches and means for integrating diverse perspectives in
decision-making. Of particular interest are papers on asset management
initiatives in both transportation and non-transportation organizations.
Accepted papers will be presented at the Annual TRB meeting, January 9-13,
2000, in Washington DC. At your option, you may submit an abstract for
committee review by June 15, 1999. Final papers are due to the
Transportation Research Board on or before August 1, 1999. For further
information or to submit an abstract, please contact:
Dr. Roy Sparrow
TRB Strategic Management Committee
c/o Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
New York University
4 Washington Square North
New York, NY 10003
TEL: 212-998-7505 or FAX: 212-005-3890
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Final accepted papers must meet TRB standards and go through a peer review.
To obtain a TRB form, please call Mary DeMinter at 202-334-3205. Forms are
also available on the internet using adobe acrobat at:
http://www.nas.edu/trb/meeting/index.com
Submit final papers by August 1,1999 to: TRB, 2101 Constitution Ave., N.W.,
Washington, DC 20418
Jonathan L. Gifford, Associate Professor of Public Management and Policy
Department of Public & International Affairs and the Institute of Public
Policy
George Mason University, Mail stop 3F4, Fairfax, VA 22030 (U.S.A.)
Tel: 703-993-1395; fax 703-993-1399; Internet: [log in to unmask]
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/pia/faculty/gifford/gifford.htm
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