Case Study: Iowa improves pavement management and budgeting with Deighton Associates’ dTIMS

Iowa boosts dTIMS license requests 50% with Deighton Associates

The customer, Iowa, a predominantly rural state, faced significant challenges in managing its vast network of secondary and city roads. With tight budgets and a lack of resources, many local agencies relied on inefficient, ad-hoc methods for pavement management. Deighton Associates provided its dTIMS software as a tool to help these agencies objectively analyze infrastructure needs and optimize the use of their limited revenues.

Deighton Associates' solution was implemented through the Iowa Pavement Management Program at Iowa State University, which centralized support and provided dTIMS licenses, training, and templates to local agencies. This approach enabled a move away from subjective methods to a performance-based budgeting system. The results were a 50% increase in new dTIMS license requests, with more agencies effectively using the tool to forecast investments and engage stakeholders.

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