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Workshop 14 - Digital transformation in road infrastructure - Part 1

Thursday, October 5 14:30 - 18:00
Chair: Rade HAJDIN, Infrastructure Management Consultants GmbH, member of PIARC TC 3.3 Asset Management, Switzerland
Room: Club A, 1st floor

For many road authorities todays digital technology provides a wide range of opportunities to improve the planning, design, construction and asset management of their road network. For instance:

  • Artificial intelligence enables the planner to automatically investigate a number of maintenance scenarios and choose the optimum one,
  • Building Information Models provide a digital model a (part of) the road consisting of objects with their specific properties and relationships,
  • Scanning techniques enables the planer, designer and contractor to obtain the latest information of the existing road and its environment and
  • Common data environments and semantic techniques assist the asset manager to make the road data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable

However, it is evident that digital assets are also assets and need to be managed appropriately in order to be able to benefit from it at the fullest. It is fair to say that the digital transformation of infrastructure in every phase in its lifecycle has (just) started.

This session showed the audience what can be expected from further future digitalisation focusing on paths that different road agencies and consultants are taking toward fully digitalized Asset Management.

  1. Welcome and session introduction
  2. Presentations
  3. Questions and answers
  4. Presentations
  5. Questions and answers
  6. Panel discussion
  7. Final conclusions
  8. Organization

Welcome and session introduction

Presentations

  • Infrastructure Asset Management using BIM-based Information Containers
    • Markus KÖNIG (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) - Chair of Computing in Engineering
    Presentation Presentation (pdf - 1.9MB)
  • AI in Corridor
    • Tuomo PALOMAA (Ramboll, Finland) - Computational Design Lead
    Presentation Presentation (pdf - 2.0MB)
  • Digital Twin for Highway Maintenance, Disaster Prevention and Safety in Urban Area
    • Hiroshi DOBASHI (Shutoko Technology Center, Japan) - Vice President
    Presentation Presentation (pdf - 5.0MB)
  • IABSE T.G 5.6: An Overview of current state of BIM for existing bridges
    • Matias VALENZUELA (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile) - Member of PIARC TC 4.2 Bridges
    Presentation Presentation (pdf - 802KB)

Questions and answers

Moderator: Rade HAJDIN, Infrastructure Management Consultants GmbH, member of PIARC TC 3.3 Asset Management, Switzerland
Co-moderator: Pascal ROSSIGNY, Cerema, secretary of PIARC TC 3.3 Asset Management, France

Break

Presentations

  • An Implementation of ICT to an Expressway Construction Work looking forward to the Maintenance Phase
    • Naoki ISHIKAWA (Japan) - Deputy Manager, Service Area Section, East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd. (NEXCO-East)
    Presentation Presentation (pdf - 3.1MB)
  • BIM as leverage towards Digital Asset Management today and the Digital Twin of tomorrow
    • Natasha BLOMMAERT (Belgium) - Agency For Road and Traffic and Member of PIARC TC 3.3 Asset Management
    Presentation Presentation (pdf - 2.2MB)

Questions and answers

Moderator: Rade HAJDIN, Infrastructure Management Consultants GmbH, member of PIARC TC 3.3 Asset Management, Switzerland
Co-moderator: Pascal ROSSIGNY, Cerema, secretary of PIARC TC 3.3 Asset Management, France

Panel discussion

Moderator: Rade HAJDIN, Infrastructure Management Consultants GmbH, member of PIARC TC 3.3 Asset Management, Switzerland
Co-moderator: Pascal ROSSIGNY, Cerema, secretary of PIARC TC 3.3 Asset Management, France

• What should be the role of PIARC regarding the topic “Digitalisation”?
• Who is the steering the digitalisation in road asset management?
• What is the role of government in the digitalisation?

Final conclusions

Organization

Session Organisers: Rade HAJDIN and Benno KOEHORST

Session Secretary: Nikola TANASIĆ