ERASME - AN EXPERT SYSTEM FOR PAVEMENT MAINTENANCE. PROCEEDINGS OF STRATEGIC HIGHWAY RESEARCH PROGRAM AND TRAFFIC SAFETY ON TWO CONTINENTS , GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN, 27-29 SEPTEMBER, 1989. HIGHWAY OPERATIONS. CONCRETE AND STRUCTURES

ERASME (French acronym for highway maintenance assisted by a multi-expert system) assists the operator in the diagnosis and the design of the pavement works for a homogeneous section; it reproduces the thinking of a specialized engineer trying to understand the problem; it is able to explain its questions and to justify them for the user. After a diagnosis stage, ERASME establishes work solutions. For an identical diagnosis it proposes several alternatives that will meet with the requirements as established by the user. Within ERASME, the problem of road maintenance has been broken down into a score of more specialized subproblems, such as fatigue, frost, traffic structure adequacy. For each of these sub-problems, a search within the lab network identified the specialist with the most expertise, and his knowledge has been modelled into the expert system. ERASME is linked with software used in the field of road maintenance and it takes advantage of all the advanced technologies in the field of artificial intelligence. It has been tested since June 1989 by some 10 pilot users and the goal is to have its use expanded to about one hundred work locations during the coming two to three years.

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  Swedish National Road and Traffic Research Institute

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• Authors:
  • JOUBERT, P
  • Allez, F
• Publication Date: 1990

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 31-47
• Serial:
  • VTI Rapport
  • Volume: 349A
  • Issue Number: 349A
  • Publisher: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
  • ISSN: 0347-6030

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Computer aided design; Computers; Highway maintenance; Pavement maintenance; Planning
• Old TRIS Terms: Computer planning systems
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Pavements; Planning and Forecasting; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00493951
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Swedish National Road and Traffic Research Institute
• Report/Paper Numbers: 352A, HS-040 865
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 30 1990 12:00AM