Technologies to Support Storage, Retrieval, and Use of 3-D Utility Location Data

Highway renewal projects depend on the availability of accurate underground utility records and information to support effective planning, design, and delivery. Providing the necessary underground utility information for road renewal projects requires a suite of innovative nondestructive technologies and methods and a decision support framework that can address the complexity of varying utilities, site soil, geology, and environmental conditions. Strategic Highway Research Program 2 (SHRP 2) Project R01, Encouraging Innovation in Locating and Characterizing Underground Utilities, provided the background and basis for a series of research and development projects that aimed to provide products to serve this highway renewal business need. This report presents information on a project undertaken to use 3-D utility location information for planning, design, and construction of highway renewal work and to develop long-term storage of the 3-D utility location information for use on future projects. Information on current practices and protocols for addressing aboveground and belowground utility location data was assembled from a literature search and a review of a number of selected projects. These findings, together with input from a workshop, the expertise of the project team, and the knowledge of current commercially available technologies and software, were used to develop a framework of policies, procedures, and systems to store, retrieve, and use 3-D utility location data in highway renewal projects. Brief commentary is provided on conceptual workflows and software, system, and administrative needs. A 3-D utility location data repository was developed to support the project. The repository, developed on a standard relational database product, was based on the federal Spatial Data Standards for Facilities, Infrastructure, and Environment database (SDSFIE 3.0). For this project, the SDSFIE data model was modified and extended to add additional features, to provide a richer set of definitions, and to permit 3-D spatial features storage. The repository can be used to support planning, design, and construction activity, as well as to store 3-D utility location information for future highway renewal projects. A limited pilot demonstration using the 3-D utility location data repository and commonly available software tools is documented. The demonstration using right-of-way utility information from a state highway renewal project discusses the uploading, using, updating, and storing of 3-D utility location data.

• Record URL:
  • https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/22231
• Availability:
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• Authors:
  • Gale, William
  • Hammerschmidt, Andrew
• Publication Date: 2015

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 307p
• Serial:
  • SHRP 2 Report
  • Issue Number: Report S2-R01A-RW-1
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Construction projects; Data collection; Data storage; Highways; Literature reviews; Mathematical models; Public utilities; Right of way (Land); Software; Technological innovations; Underground utility lines
• Identifier Terms: Strategic Highway Research Program 2
• Subject Areas: Construction; Data and Information Technology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01551394
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309274593
• Report/Paper Numbers: SHRP 2 Report S2-R01A-RW-1
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Jan 27 2015 11:23AM