Monitoring highway assets with remote technology.

Details

• Corporate Creators:
  Dye Management Group, Inc.
• Corporate Contributors:
  Michigan. Dept. of Transportation
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Asset management
  • Remote sensing
  • Benefit cost analysis
  • Data collection
  • Laser radar
  • Aerial photography
  • Inventory
  • Highway facilities
  • Monitoring
  • Data quality
• Publication/ Report Number:
  RC-1607
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Michigan
• Corporate Publisher:
  Dye Management Group, Inc.
• Abstract:
  The purpose of this research was to evaluate the benefits and costs of various remote sensing ; technology options and compare them to the currently used manual data collection alternative. ; The DMG’s evaluation was used to determine how useful and feasible it would be to perform ; inventory collection of the Michigan Department of Transportation’s (MDOT’s) twenty-seven ; high/medium priority assets. DMG performed a pilot project; using several selected routes in ; MDOT’s Southwest Region, to evaluate different remote technologies and to provide ; recommendations for how best to implement the most viable of these technologies as data ; collection tools and data centralization methods. ; Results and recommendations include: ;  Remote technologies are capable of gathering highway asset data on most MDOT assets. ; Notable exceptions include assets not readily visible from the roadway (e.g. culverts). ;  LiDAR technology, while useful in the appropriate application, produces a level of detail ; beyond that necessary for the assets identified under this study and was not considered a ; cost-effective alternative. ;  Mobile imaging technology offers an opportunity to effectively gather highway asset data ; while decreasing worker exposure to traffic, increasing data accuracy and quality, speeding data collection, and reducing overall costs relative to manual data collection methods. ;  DMG recommends that MDOT outsource data collection using mobile imaging technology ; to a vendor that can handle a project of this magnitude.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  2012-0636
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/27844/dot_27844_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.99 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:adf44ad1a34af2d6d397dc7177b55316e250c73cfd30c7f3947b7122334a0f8b