FIELD EXPERIMENTS IN AUTOMATED MONITORING OF ROAD CONSTRUCTION

The growing need for better monitoring and control of road construction projects, together with rapid technological progress have led to a number of interesting developments, which are reviewed. The present paper describes the development of a real time monitoring model capable of measuring productivity and progress automatically. The model, which uses global positioning system for on-site automated data collection, was tested and validated on site. The results of the field experiments have indicated that the expected accuracy level can be assessed as 4-5% for unstructured activities and even higher for more structured ones, such as asphalt spreading. The paper concludes that it is possible to automatically measure the performance of earthmoving operations. Based on the results, it also highlights the needs for further research.

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• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

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• Authors:
  • Navon, R
  • Shpatnitsky, Y
• Publication Date: 2005-4-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 487-493
• Serial:
  • Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
  • Volume: 131
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0733-9364
  • EISSN: 1943-7862
  • Serial URL: http://ascelibrary.org/journal/jcemd4

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic data collection systems; Data collection; Field studies; Global Positioning System; Monitoring; Road construction; Technological innovations
• Subject Areas: Construction; Highways; I50: Construction and Supervision of Construction;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00989493
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 6 2005 12:00AM