Subsurface Analysis Planning Tool for Cost Reduction, Rapid Emergency Evaluation, And Data Support for Rural Service Areas

Transportation professionals often make important decisions about system dependability, project design, and emergency response with limited time and data. This is particularly true as it relates to the underlying soil, rock, and groundwater conditions that directly affect the design and repair of critical infrastructure. Typically, designers and engineers rely on drilling boreholes and performing in-situ tests to characterize subsurface conditions and associated problems for applications ranging from bridges to roadways to stream crossings to landslides. Unfortunately, these exploration techniques are expensive, time-consuming, inherently risky, and often accompanied by significant lead times. Further, the complex nature of this data can be very difficult to interpret and the uncertainty difficult to quantify. This research project will leverage investments from CLiP, Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) SPR786, and SPR808 to improve GOSEP algorithms for predicting subsurface information for planning and emergency response, with a focused aim for extrapolation improvement in rural, data sparse regions. This project also aims to expand the GOSEP database and thereby its capabilities by adding more geotechnical data and parameter datasets as well as by improving the OCR borehole log scanner for archived handwritten borehole logs.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Contract Numbers:

  SPR 897

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Start Date: 20250930
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Algorithms; Boreholes; Databases; Geotechnical engineering; Rural areas; Subsoil
• Geographic Terms: Oregon
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Geotechnology; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01995052
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Oregon Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: SPR 897
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jul 8 2026 5:34PM