Enhancements to highway construction scheduling expert system.

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• Creators:
  Slattery, Dianne K. ; Slattery, Kerry T.
• Corporate Creators:
  Missouri State University. Dept. of Technology and Construction Management
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration ; Illinois. Dept. of Transportation
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Road construction
  • Construction projects
  • Construction scheduling
  • Data mining
  • Data analysis
  • Expert systems
  • Software
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-ICT-15-011 ; UILU-ENG-2015-2012
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Illinois
• Corporate Publisher:
  Illinois Center for Transportation
• Abstract:
  This research was performed to enhance the software tool (Illinois Construction Scheduling Expert ; System, ICSES) developed in Phase I of this project (ICT project R27-86) by mining data collected on ; IDOT construction projects and differentiating production rates based on project type and size, and training ; for IDOT engineers on effective use of the expert system tool. The researchers obtained Illinois ; COnstruction Record System (ICORS) data from each district and assembled a statewide database of ; more than 4,000 projects completed from 2003-2014. Rich production rate data was extracted from the ; ICORS files by analyzing the resident engineers’ daily diaries and other historical records and processing ; this data for use in the ICSES software. The results of the data analysis give the scheduler templates of a ; variety of highway construction projects with the controlling items associated with those projects and the ; order in which the activities typically occur. The ICSES software was updated based on the results of the ; analysis of the ICORS data. Templates were modified and/or added in the existing Excel-based database. ; Production rates currently given in the Construction Daily Production Rate table (Bureau of Design and ; Environment Manual, Table 66-2.B) were updated based on analyses of data generated by the research. ; Users of ICSES are given information to assist in development of a schedule and engineers’ estimate of ; time based on project parameters.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  R27-135
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/29382/dot_29382_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.19 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:1d45f4dd113d94746dcfc4ffc902ca280a2a0e80afea4843e3a137a62cdae2c2