Requirements, Model and Prototype for a Multi-Utility Locational and Security Information Hub

Even if they are hosted in sophisticated Geographic information Systems (GIS) systems, the asset management systems maintained by various utilities are often plagued by information incompleteness and inaccuracy. The locational information is often based on approximate design data that differ from actual "as-built" drawings that may not be even be held by such utilities owning and maintaining underground lifeline infrastructure systems (water, wastewater, electric/power, gas, stormwater, and communications networks). This project lays the foundation for building and exchange hub for locational and security data and risk assessment of potential excavation work. It acts primarily at 2 stages: upstream of the mark-out process, as a decision to support tool to help streamline, improve and guide the mark-out to gain and preserve information gained from such field verified data, and added intelligence to each utility asset management system related to the potential proximity of other utilities, and possible criticality of proposed construction activity in a given site that puts at risk key assets.

• Record URL:
  http://www.utrc2.org/research/projects/multi-utility-locational-and-security-information

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $51948.00
• Contract Numbers:

  49997-28-25

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  University Transportation Centers Program
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  University Transportation Research Center

  City College of New York
  Marshak Hall, Suite 910, 160 Convent Avenue
  New York, NY  United States  10031
• Project Managers:

  Eickemeyer, Penny

• Performing Organizations:

  New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)

  Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
  University Heights
  Newark, NJ  United States  07102-1982
• Principal Investigators:

  Karaa, Fadi

• Start Date: 20140301
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20150831
• Source Data: RiP Project 36163

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Asset management; Data collection; Decision support systems; Excavation; Information management; Risk assessment; Underground utility lines
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Security and Emergencies; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01563669
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: University Transportation Research Center
• Contract Numbers: 49997-28-25
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: May 20 2015 1:01AM