Transportation agencies may have their own goals for establishing or expanding their own Advanced American Innovative Transportation Materials (AAITM, formerly LCTM) programs. For some transportation agencies, those goals are directly aligned with the AAITM Program goals, while for others the goals are focused on co-benefits of using AAITM and from participating in the FHWA Program.
A co-benefit is...
A co-benefit is an outcome that simultaneously meets several interests or objectives resulting from participation in the AAITM program. Examples include
- achieving cost savings
- conserving finite resources
- introducing material performance testing, benchmarking, and specifications
- improving environmental impacts