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Risk Assessment, Identification and Notification (RAIN) System - a GIS Based Tool for Construction Maintenance, Condition Assessment, Pavement Management and Transportation Safety Duration: July '08 - June '09 The current state of the nation's transportation infrastructure and the ever present threat of a natural or manmade disaster, demands that there be a comprehensive approach for metorpolitan safety, security, management, maintenance and mobility. Developing an integrated GIS-based data acquisition and analysis system will provide a means for protecting, maintaining, and reporting on the critical network necessary for the daily movement of goods and persons througout the country. A Risk Assessment, Identification and Notification (RAIN) System, is proposed that will identify high-risk areas, classify pavement problems, optimize maintenance schedules, improve interagency coordination, and disseminate notification messages to vehicles approaching these zones. A number of ongoing efforts have been directed towards the creation of inspection techniques and procedures for interstate and highway infrastructure, and these techniques and tools are well documented in the civil engineering literature. However, there remains a critical need for the development of a GIS-based mapping and analysis tool for pavement management, construction maintenance, permitting, vehicle routing, condition assessment, and risk assessment at state and federal levels. |
Project Objectives Objective 1: Identify vital data for security, construction, pavement management and maintenance as related to transportation systems Objective 2: Data acquisition Objective 3: Data Analysis Objective 4: Risk Assessment Objective 5: Develop Risk Notification Message Dissemination Protocol (RNMDP) Objective 6: Simulate and evaluate RNMDP Objective 7: Field test RNMDP Objective 8: Integrate RNMDP into RAIN Objective 9: Deliver prototype to IMTrans Final Report |
PI: Dr.Gordon W. Skelton |
