Automated Route Optimization Planning for Maryland Condition Assessment

Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration (MDOT SHA) conducts an annual condition assessment that covers one third of the highway system. The routing of the sampled half-mile roadway segments is done manually. Many labor-hours are spent that could be better used to improve the timely-reporting of programs, such as, fiscal, targets, maintenance planning, tangible results, along with analysis like life-cycle analysis. The research is to develop a stand-alone geographic information systems (GIS) tool to route the condition assessment trips using a simple sampling process. Ideally, it could also be applied to salt routes, ARAN truck routing, and CHART patrol routing. Incorporation into the MDOT SHA Enterprise GIS will be considered.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $166589
• Contract Numbers:

  SHA/TU/2-1

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration

  707 North Calvert Street
  Baltimore, MD  United States  21202
• Project Managers:

  Xiang, Hua

• Performing Organizations:

  Towson University

  Towson, MD  United States  21252
• Principal Investigators:

  Lu, Kang Shou

• Start Date: 20180123
• Expected Completion Date: 20200229
• Actual Completion Date: 20200401

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced traveler information systems; Evaluation and assessment; Geographic information systems; Highway maintenance; Optimization; Routing
• Identifier Terms: Maryland State Highway Administration
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01658831
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Maryland State Highway Administration
• Contract Numbers: SHA/TU/2-1
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Feb 1 2018 9:11AM