摘要: |
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) faces signifi cant workforce challenges, particularly in the districts, where the testing and inspection workload is increasing. TxDOT is looking for more effective ways to manage their testing, inspection, and measurement workload. Other states are facing similar challenges and have taken actions to implement procedures to reduce their workload. Such procedures include increasing contractor testing and inspection responsibilities, outsourcing testing and inspection to third parties, creating extensive training and certifi cation programs, and modifying their specifi cations to minimize time intensive testing and measurement. Accordingly, there is a need to summarize the best practices from those DOTs that have already instituted successful programs to reduce the inspection workload. The results could potentially aid TxDOT in addressing their specific workload challenges. |