June 2026

$140.2 Billion and Counting: Why Your EAM System Is Now Your Most Important SGR Compliance Tool By: Bill Carrick The Number Every Transit Asset Manager Needs to Explain The FTA’s State of Good Repair National Backlog Analysis, released in January 2025, put the nation’s transit infrastructure repair deficit at $140.2 billion. That figure represents a […]

Right Part, Right Time, Right Cost: How AI Is Finally Solving MRO Inventory’s Decades-Old Balancing Act By: Bill Carrick Picture this: a turbine at a natural gas peaker plant trips offline on a humid July afternoon. The maintenance team identifies the culprit within the hour — a failed bearing on a critical cooling fan. The

8,116 Electric Buses. A New Asset Class No One Planned to Manage. By: Bill Carrick The Charging Infrastructure Blindspot As of July 2025, 8,116 full-size zero-emission buses had been funded, ordered, delivered, or put into service at transit agencies across the United States — a 16 percent increase year over year. Add nearly 1,400 smaller