March/April 1998

Vol 61, No.4

U.S. Department of Transportation

Federal Highway Administration

  
Articles  
Public Roads: 80 Years Old, But the Best is Yet to Come

Celebrate International Highway Transportation Safety Week 1998

Wealth of Information Presented at Superpave Conference

AASHTO's SiteManager Tames Contract Documentation

Intermodal ConnectorL NHS Catches up to the 1990's

The ITS Joint Project Office: Structuring the Future

ISTEA's Tribal Technical Assistance Program Legacy

Pride and Partnership: Completing the Interstate H-3

Highway Financing

HIPERPAV: A User-Friendly Tool to Help Us "Build It Right"


Departments

Editor's Notes

Along the Road

Internet Watch

Recent Publications

Conferences/Special Events Calendar

NHI Update

Public Roads (ISSN 0033-3735; USPS 516-690) is published bi-monthly by the Office of Research and Development, Federal Highway Administration(FHWA), 400 Seventh Street SW, Washington, DC 20590.

Contact Editor
Bob Bryant

Assistant Editor Kandace Studzinski

Distribution Manager Judy Dakin

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 AASHTO Brings Software Together Under the Trns•Port Name

SiteManager is the latest addition to the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials' (AASHTO) Trns•Port (Transportation Software Management Solution) family of software. Trns•Port is the new name for the BAMS (Bid Analysis Management System) line of software programs. BAMS began with a single program, also called BAMS, that allowed highway agencies to analyze bids for collusion. As additional features were added, the BAMS name came to refer to a collection of programs for managing highway construction projects. The original BAMS software is now just one part of the Trns•Port family of software programs.

Several Trns•Port products are available or under development:

  • CES (Cost Estimation System), for preparing preliminary and item-level project cost estimates.
  • PES (Proposal and Estimates System), for use in the preletting phase of a bid.
  • CAS (Construction Administration System), for managing contract information from award to final payment.
  • LAS (Letting and Awards System), for helping highway agencies to advertise and process proposals, track proposal holders, review bid information, and award contracts.
  • BAMS/DSS (Decision Support System), for bid monitoring and evaluation, vendor analysis, and as-bid to as-built analysis.
  • Estimator, for providing cost estimates using cost-based and bid-based techniques.
  • Expedite, an electronic bidding system for providing secure online communications for bid items.
  • SiteManager, a contract management system. SiteManager is bigger than all the other Trns•Port products combined.