Doing More With Less: Scaling DOT Maintenance and Performance-Based Budgeting in the Era of AI

Transportation agencies across the country are facing a convergence of crises: rapidly aging infrastructure, stagnant funding, and severe shortages of maintenance personnel. To survive, state and local Departments of Transportation (DOTs) are being forced to do "more with less," transitioning from reactive repair cycles to highly optimized, performance-based budgeting models. But there is a catch: you cannot accurately budget for what you cannot measure.

Traditionally, feeding these models required deploying manual patrols across thousands of miles of roadway—a process that is labor-intensive, expensive, and prone to subjective inconsistencies.

In this 45-minute executive panel (followed by a 15-minute Q&A), join Mark Pittman (Senior Director of Transportation AI, Bentley Systems), Rob Zilay (Dye Management), and Morgan Musick (Assistant Maintenance Management Engineer, ALDOT) as they discuss the next frontier of infrastructure asset management. We will explore the regional challenges DOTs are facing and dive into how strategic consulting and cutting-edge technology are converging to solve them.

The panel will highlight a groundbreaking initiative where ALDOT, supported by Dye Management, integrated Blyncsy’s crowdsourced dashcam AI to automate the inspection of critical safety assets like guardrails and signage across their 11,000-mile network. Attendees will learn how to overcome institutional inertia, address public privacy concerns, and leverage automated analytics to achieve 97% inspection accuracy at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods. Discover how shifting from historical precedent to empirical evidence is keeping road crews safer, optimizing taxpayer dollars, and ensuring funding goes exactly where it is needed to reach target Levels of Service.