A synthesis study on collecting, managing, and sharing road construction asset data.

Details

• Creators:
  Cai, Hubo ; Yuan, Chenxi ; McClure, Timothy B. ; Dunston, Phillip S.
• Corporate Creators:
  Purdue University. Joint Transportation Research Program
• Corporate Contributors:
  Indiana Department of Transportation ; United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Asset management
  • Data collection
  • Inspection
  • Road construction
  • State departments of transportation
  • State of the practice
  • Surveys Data needs
  • information management
  • life cycle data sharing
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/IN/JTRP-2015/20
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.5703/1288284316005
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Final report
• Corporate Publisher:
  Purdue University
• Abstract:
  Accurate and complete construction records and as‐built data are the key prerequisites to the effective management of transportation ; infrastructure assets throughout their life cycle. The construction phase is the best time to collect such data. Assets such as underground ; drainage and culverts are visible and physically accessible only during construction. For assets such as guardrails, signals, and pavement, ; it is safer and more efficient to collect data during construction than after construction when the road segment is open to traffic.   ; The purpose of this project was to conduct a synthesis study to 1) assess the current status at INDOT regarding the collection of asset ; data during the construction phase and the use of such data in the operation and maintenance (O&M) phase, and 2) develop a ; framework for INDOT to leverage the construction inspection and documentation process to collect data for assets. Data needs during ; O&M were identified through rounds of meetings with relevant INDOT business units. The current practice in construction ; documentation was investigated in detail. A survey of state highway agencies (SHAs) was conducted to assess the state‐of‐the‐practice. ; A practical framework was developed to leverage the construction inspection and documentation practice to collect asset data that are ; needed in O&M. The framework uses specific pay items—construction activities that result in physical structures—as the bridge to ; connect plan assets (i.e. physical structures specified in the design documents) to their corresponding counterparts in the asset ; management systems. The framework is composed of 1) a data needs component for determining the information requirements from ; the O&M perspective, 2) a construction documentation module, and 3) a mapping mechanism to link data items to be collected during ; the construction documentation to data items in the asset management systems. The mapping mechanism was tested and validated ; using four priority asset classes—underdrains, guardrails, attenuators, and small culverts—from an INDOT construction project. The ; testing results show that the newly developed framework is viable and solid to collect asset data during the construction phase for O&M ; use in the future, without adding extra workload to construction crews. The framework can reduce/eliminate the duplicate data ; collection efforts at INDOT, leading to savings and efficiency gains in the long term.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  SPR-3707
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/30869/dot_30869_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 14.86 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:29ded617c03785f795ada3ea4c70fd15d732d2c876ce429cd3be846816564b2c51b879ce2dd14ee378d7cbef38fbe6eba5bf972ec5b7824727a9a9eca3261ab7