Area C – Store, Integrate, and Access Data – Guidebook for Data and Information Systems for Transportation Asset Management

Area C – Store, Integrate, and Access Data

Structuring, integrating and providing access to data to support TAM operations, management and reporting needs.

Improvements in this Area are aimed at managing asset data in an efficient manner and integrating data across systems supporting different assets and different asset life-cycle phases and agency business processes.

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Sections

C.1

Databases

Making data available across the enterprise while eliminating redundant information is critical to driving efficiency and reliability.

Moving from paper-based data to fully integrated databases requires planning and critical thinking about how and where data will be stored, and how different databases will be linked to each other.

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Response Templates

C.1.a – Efficient Storage
C.1.b – Database Linkages
C.1.c – Document Linkages
C.1.d – Data Storage Capacity

C.2

Asset Life-Cycle Data Integration Workflows

Through technology advancement, it is now possible for data to persist across the asset life cycle – from planning through to design and delivery and ultimately through to operations and maintenance.

Integrating workflows between phases of the asset life cycle is critical to unlocking the value that is amassed through these phases.

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Response Templates

C.2.a – Asset Management Data to Project or Work Order
C.2.b – Project Planning to Project Development
C.2.c – Project Development to Project Delivery
C.2.d Project Delivery to Asset Management Data

C.3

Other Data Integration Workflows

Information contained in agency financial, traffic monitoring, transportation modeling, and environmental systems support asset risk analysis and prioritization, and improve TAM treatment selection and decision-making.

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Response Templates

C.3.a – Financial (Revenue, Budget, Expenditure) Data
C.3.b – Demand and/or Utilization Data
C.3.c – Environmental Data

C.4

Data Access

Data access must be carefully planned to balance agency business needs and public accountability with the need to protect data integrity and mitigate risks of data misuse or misinterpretation.

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Response Templates

C.4.a – Field Access to Data
C.4.b – Public Access to Data
C.4.c – Access Security

Case Study

Mobile LiDAR and BIM/CADD Integration

Utah DOT

This project exemplifies the value of leveraging asset inventory and condition data into the project delivery phase. This project also shows that investments in one asset life-cycle stage can pay dividends in another, the additional returns on investment by looking at the larger life cycle viewpoint can be considered to aid justification of new data and digitalization projects.

This case study demonstrates how a specific DOT could advance this element from practice level 3 to practice level 4, by implementing improvements for asset life-cycle data transfers automation.

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