Development of priority based statewide scour monitoring systems in New England (PDF file)

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• Creators:
  Di Stasi, Jeffrey M ; Ho, Carlton L.
• Corporate Contributors:
  University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Transportation Center
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Real time information
  • Geographic information systems
  • Websites (Information retrieval)
  • Bridges
  • Decision support systems
  • Internet
  • Monitoring
  • Prototypes
  • Scour
  • Warning systems
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Connecticut ; Massachusetts
• Corporate Publisher:
  Connecticut Transportation Institute
• Abstract:
  A project was funded by the New England Transportation Consortium to research the creation of a scour monitoring system ; that would assist in the allocation of resources during potentially destructive flood events in New England. Emphasis was placed upon ; the adoption and use of existing tools and infrastructure to accomplish these tasks. A web-based approach using a spatial decision ; support system (SDSS) would be adopted for development of the monitoring system. A SDSS is a platform independent software ; application that can be used as both a decision and research tool. The versatility of the model enables discretion to be used, which ; emphasizes the importance of engineering judgment with respect to the analytical method used to evaluate scour potential in this ; system. ; Potential components of the system are identified and reviewed, such as existing scour analyses, instrumentation, and ; automated gages. Internet websites are discussed in detail to familiarize DOTs with sources of available real-time weather products ; pertinent to the assessment of scour conditions. A GIS is created for each New England state to geographically integrate bridge, dam, ; and gage infrastructure in order to recognize the relation between them. Various scour models are presented along with methods for ; determining hydraulic input parameters to be entered into the models. The framework of a conceptual scour monitoring system is ; outlined and a potential scenario is used to illustrate the operation of the monitoring system for real-time warning and assessment of ; scour conditions. The sum result of these tasks was the development of a prototype real-time scour monitoring and assessment tool ; that integrated web-based assessment tools, geographic information systems, and Internet resources.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/14808/dot_14808_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1009.53 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:363a3f395081abe4caf5fca12fbd5ed10cbe3685beaa6a31ca415c83e42961d4