Transition Plan for AASHTO
Appendix A
May 2000

INITIAL OBJECTIVES (AS OF 1996)

Mission
To provide a clearinghouse to share and deliver information and technical assistance in identification, prevention, and rehabilitation of alkali silica reactivity to the public, private, and academic sectors of transportation.

Goals

1. Establish a mechanism for gathering and disseminating ASR information and providing technical assistance.
2. Increase awareness of ASR information.
3. Complete research and evaluation, and develop guide specifications.
4. Continue implementation of current and future ASR technology.
5. Expand on implementation of ASR technology.

Strategies

1. Gather and evaluate ASR information.
2. Package information.
3. Evaluate options for dissemination of information.
4. Identify and qualify resources, partners, and media for providing technical assistance.
5. Provide opportunity for short term and long term training.
6. Develop and implement a marketing communications plan.
7. Develop a feedback plan.
8. Set target dates for completing research, evaluations, and guide specifications.
9. Identify benefits and establish life cycle costs by utilizing value engineering.
10. Maintain management commitment and financial support.
11. Incorporate findings of continued and completed research and evaluations, and implement into revised specifications and ASR information database.
12. Complete and analyze round-robin testing program.
13. Provide for a partnership with industry.

Action Plan

1. Roger Surdahl will utilize FHWA resources, if necessary, to help assure that all Lead State team members are accessible by Internet by March 1997.
2. Claudio Manissero and Roger Surdahl will send articles and bibliographies to Margo by February 17, 1997.
3. Margo Thomson will categorize the bibliographic information by source and topic by July 21, 1997.
4. Moy Biswas will develop an electronic database of the ASR information by key words from a standard format by October 20, 1997.
5. The lead states on Team ASR will set target dates to complete research, evaluation, and guide specifications and will send this information to Margo Thomson by September 27, 1996.
6. The individual Team ASR members will compile a list of people, equipment, materials, literature, videos, slides, photos, computers, and available money which can be used to provide technical assistance and send it to Claudio Manissero by October 21, 1996. Claudio Manissero in turn will compile this list and return it to the Team ASR members for review by November 11, 1996. The final product is envisioned as a directory of resources made available to the public. The means of publication has yet to be decided.
7. Margo Thomson will start working with the help of the other Team ASR members, on evaluating options for disseminating the information by June 1997.

ASR Lead State Team (as of 1996)