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Workshop 14 - Digital transformation in road infrastructure - Part 2

Friday, October 6 09:30 - 13:00
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

  • Session Introduction
    • Rade HAJDIN (Switzerland) - Infrastructure Management Consultants GmbH, member of PIARC TC 3.3 Asset Management
    Presentation Presentation (pdf - 376KB)

Presentations

  • Reasons for BIM Level 3 and beyond
    • Odilo SCHOCH (Swiss Federal Roads Office, Switzerland)
    Presentation Presentation (pdf - 1.9MB)
  • Now is the time to embrace the future of road inspection and maintenance planning
    • Jasper WOGNUM (Inspech, BrainCreators,, Netherlands)
    Presentation Presentation (pdf - 4.8MB)
  • BIM in Life Cycle Management
    • Markus STÖCKNER (Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
    Presentation Presentation (pdf - 1.6MB)
  • The MINnD French National Project about Interoperable information modelling for sustainable infrastructure
    • Pascal ROSSIGNY (Cerema, France) - Secretary 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

Break

Presentations

  • The Digitalization Journey of the US Highways Sector - A Historical Snapshot and Future Potential
    • Jaganath MALLELA (Ph.D., WSP, United States)
    Presentation Presentation (pdf - 1.6MB)
  • BIM for existing infrastructure: Challenges and Solutions
    • Rade HAJDIN (Infrastructure Management Consultants GmbH, Switzerland) - Member of PIARC TC 3.3 Asset Management
    Presentation Presentation (pdf - 2.0MB)

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