Building Smarter Cities via Intelligent Asset Management: South Carolina Case Study using IBM Maximo Application

Description: Bridges serve as vital hubs in the national economy, facilitating the movement of goods and vehicles. South Carolina has nearly 9,455 bridges, and 8.7 percent are currently classified as structurally deficient [ARTBA, 2021]. A total of 89.4 percent of structurally deficient bridges are located on interstate highways and other critical roadways that connect major airports, ports, railroads, and truck terminals [ARTBA, 2021], posing a threat to the transportation of people and goods. Intellectual Merit: The research goal is to develop a cost-effective approach to monitor the road conditions by cloud-based collaborative monitoring using in-vehicle smartphones which could be from any general public vehicle users. Broader Impacts: This project aims to reduce the cost of road condition monitoring by providing a very cost-effective way with a minimum investment of equipment and labor, significantly improve the safety of transportation systems, especially the multimodal connected and automated transportation systems, by providing timely needed road condition monitoring, and create a smartphone-based road condition dataset to benefit the research society.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $101143
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551747117

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Center for Connected Multimodal Mobility

  Clemson University
  Clemson, SC  United States  29634

  University of South Carolina, Columbia

  502 Byrnes Building
  Columbia, SC  United States  29208

  Benedict College

  1600 Harden Street
  Columbia, South Carolina  United States  29204
• Managing Organizations:

  University of South Carolina, Columbia

  502 Byrnes Building
  Columbia, SC  United States  29208
• Project Managers:

  Ziehl, Paul

• Performing Organizations:

  University of South Carolina, Columbia

  502 Byrnes Building
  Columbia, SC  United States  29208

  Benedict College

  1600 Harden Street
  Columbia, South Carolina  United States  29204
• Principal Investigators:

  Comert, Gurcan

  Huynh, Nathan

  Ziehl, Paul

• Start Date: 20210901
• Expected Completion Date: 20220902
• Actual Completion Date: 20231114
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Asset management; Bridges; Cloud computing; Condition surveys; Cost effectiveness; Monitoring
• Geographic Terms: South Carolina
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01838171
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Center for Connected Multimodal Mobility
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747117
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Mar 6 2022 3:01PM