Best practices of MDOT's survey operation, organization and technology implementation.

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• Creators:
  Sulbaran, Tulio ; Strelzoff, Andrew
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Southern Mississippi. School of Construction
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Surveying
  • Global Positioning System
  • Best practices
  • Technological innovations
  • Robotics
  • Electronic equipment
  • Computer aided design
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/MS-DOT-RD-12-222
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Mississippi
• Corporate Publisher:
  Mississippi. Dept. of Transportation
• Abstract:
  A critical activity performed by employees of the Mississippi Department of Transportation is surveying. ; Surveying in some instances needs to be performed in hazardous environments such as rugged terrain and ; high-speed traffic. New surveying technologies (i.e.: Global Positioning System) are increasingly being ; adopted by surveying units of departments of transportation around the nation, because it has demonstrated ; increased efficiency and cost savings in topographical surveys Uddin 2008, Hall 2006, Krugler, 2006, ; NCHRP2004, MDOT2002. ; MDOT employees use a wide range of surveying methods and technologies throughout the state. Surveying ; operations vary within MDOT from manual conventional surveying technology requiring large numbers of ; field personnel to GPS and robotic technologies that are faster and require fewer employees to deploy. The ; technology, methodology, standards, quality controls and delivered results of these surveying operations ; need to be catalogued and evaluated to determine the best operational approach to use for the range of ; surveying operations employed by MDOT. ; In addition, surveying at the district level within MDOT is organized in many different ways. For ; example, in some districts surveying teams are centralized with most jobs filled by the main office while in ; other districts surveying tasks are spread among numerous field offices. These organizational strategies ; need to be studied to determine the most efficient organizational model/process for MDOT surveying ; operations. ; Some MDOT locations have embraced modern surveying technologies such as GPS RTK systems, robotic ; total stations, automated field data collection and CADD modeling procedures with great success. Others ; have been slower to adopt the newest technology and have had less success in field deployment. A study is ; needed to determine the best adoption strategies including potentially targeted training, field demonstration, ; new equipment, phase in strategy and computerized work flow for most effectively rolling out new ; surveying technologies (ex: GPS) to all MDOT districts. ; The overall goal of this project was to evaluate the surveying processes throughout MDOT to move toward ; providing electronic 3D surveys, improve accuracy and increase efficiency in MDOT survey efforts. This ; goal was achieved by targeting each district office to determine: (1) Best operational approach to use a ; range of surveying technologies, (2) Most effective organizational model/process to best utilize the newest ; surveying technologies; and (3) Best roll-out strategy which will help MDOT districts move to the most ; efficient surveying technology.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/28841/dot_28841_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 8.48 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:910af7a9a07a8f6236ab357800f7765a9f16dd25279d9b7242f589013ee03f47