Talks and Publications

A selection of talks, articles and related items. This is not a complete list.

Books

• Legacy: A Decision-Maker's Guide to Infrastructure. With Ruth Wallsgrove. 2025. https://talkinginfrastructure.com/legacy-a-decision-makers-guide-to-infrastructure/
• Building an Asset Management Team. With Ruth Wallsgrove. 2020. PDF (proceeds donated): https://talkinginfrastructure.com/resources/

Articles

• "Decisions that Last." Assets magazine, Institute of Asset Management, July 2025. Listed in the IAM Case Study Library under asset management decision making. https://publications.cplone.co.uk/portfolio/IAM/202507/0010.html
• "What Could Possibly Go Wrong, and the Undo Button." Talking Infrastructure, July 13, 2024. https://talkinginfrastructure.com/2024/07/13/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-and-the-undo-button/

Conference talks (a selection)

• "40:40 Vision: The Biggest Challenge Ahead for Asset Management." IAM North American Conference, 2024.
• "Leadership Commitment." TRB Conference on Transportation Asset Management, Boston, session "The Role of the Asset Management Champion and Their Team", July 11, 2023. https://trb.secure-platform.com/a/solicitations/98/sessiongallery/schedule/items/1563/application/9388
• "Leadership Commitment: Lessons Learned." Keynote, IAM North American Conference, 2022.
• Session speaker, IAM Virtual Global Conference, 2022.
• "The Criticality of Good Asset Planning in a Time of Increasing Uncertainty." CEATI 5th Asset Management Conference, 2021.
• "The Story of Asset Management, So Far." IAM North American Conference, 2021.
• "On Beyond Building the Asset Management Team." IAM North American Conference, 2020.
• "Building an Asset Management Team." FTA Multimodal Transit Asset Management Roundtable, July 2019. https://www.transit.dot.gov/TAM/SGRroundtables/2019MM/RTD_BuildingTeam
• "RTD's Asset Management Story So Far." Eno Center for Transportation, Multi-Agency Exchange (MAX) on asset management, 2018. https://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/MAX-AM-2018-RTD-v2.pdf
• "Creating FTA Required Targets." FTA Transit Asset Management Roundtable, August 29, 2017. https://www.transit.dot.gov/SGRroundtables/2017/Creating_Targets
• "Asset Management Risk 101." FTA Transit Asset Management Roundtable, 2017. https://www.transit.dot.gov/sites/fta.dot.gov/files/docs/regulations-and-guidance/asset-management/64776/riskanalysisrtd.pdf
• "Information into Action: Putting the Asset Information to Use." FTA State of Good Repair Roundtable, 2016.
• "Battery Electric Bus Fleets: Whole Life Cost and Utility Coordination." CEATI International (year not listed on the source resume).

Webinars (Federal Transit Administration)

• "Maintaining MomenTAM." FTA TAM webinar, March 31, 2021, with Casco Bay Lines. Recording, slides and transcript: https://www.transit.dot.gov/TAM/SGRroundtables
• "Workforce Planning and Development." FTA TAM webinar, February 12, 2020, with LA Metro. Recording and transcript: https://www.transit.dot.gov/TAM/SGRroundtables

Podcasts and audio

• Thinking Infrastructure Aloud: the Waves of Asset Management, a three part conversation with Penny Burns and Ruth Wallsgrove, Talking Infrastructure, July 2020.
• Part 1, How the Waves of Asset Management Build on Each Other: https://talkinginfrastructure.com/2020/07/08/waves-1-how-the-waves-of-asset-management-build-on-each-other/
• Part 2, Alignment and Purpose: https://talkinginfrastructure.com/2020/07/20/waves-2-alignment-and-purpose/
• Part 3, Asset Managers and the Future: https://talkinginfrastructure.com/2020/07/27/waves-3-asset-managers-and-the-future/

Mentioned in

• "About Time: Future Us." Talking Infrastructure, January 15, 2024 (on RTD's use of premortems, red teams and long term cost analysis). https://talkinginfrastructure.com/2024/01/15/about-time-future-us/
• "Waves Plus." Talking Infrastructure, September 23, 2021 (Lou's "up and out" framing of Wave 3). https://talkinginfrastructure.com/2021/09/23/waves-plus/
• IAM Recommended Books lists Building an Asset Management Team. https://theiam.org/knowledge-library/recommended-books/
• Trapeze Group case study on RTD's enterprise asset management system, quoting Lou (vendor publication). https://trapezegroup.com/case-study/rtd/

Speaking

I speak on asset management leadership, building asset management teams, infrastructure decision making, and asset management at small scale. The items above are a selection, not a complete record of every talk. Contact