1. Increased Service Levels: Improved preventative maintenance ultimately prolongs equipment life, enhances public safety, and decreases long-term costs.
2. Mitigated Staffing Challenges: An augmentation partner helps address major staffing issues like employee turnover, sick days, and other unforeseen absences.
3. Reduced Overhead Burdens: Experience a reduction in both short-term and long-term overhead costs.
4. New Team Paradigm: Fresh perspectives and innovative solutions are brought to the table, fostering a more dynamic problem-solving environment.
5. Promotes Accountable Workmanship: Dual teams encourage honest and well-managed work, reducing complacency.
6. Access to Specialized Resources: Gain access to a contractor's extensive inventory of specialized equipment and in-stock materials.
7. Enhanced Training and Support: Benefit from more robust training; technical, safety and customer service practices, including cross-training opportunities with a larger staff.
8. Technology Agnostic Approach: Access a contractor's test laboratory and equipment, allowing for a technology-agnostic approach that keeps you informed on emerging technologies and equipment.
9. Greater Flexibility and Scalability: Improve your ability to handle emergency situations and other unexpected scenarios with greater flexibility and scalability.
10. Reduced Liability: Minimize your agency's overall liability.
Whatever the state of your current traffic signal and ITS maintenance program, augmentation might be an approach to consider for finding unrealized costs-savings, while improving the overall performance of your program.
