Maintenance & Construction Management

Maintenance and Construction Management project sponsors may choose to consider the following functions when defining functional requirements for a specific project. A typical maintenance and construction management project is able to:

• include environmental sensors that measure weather conditions including temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, and visibility.
• collect current and forecast road and weather information from weather service providers (such as the National Weather Service and value-added sector specific meteorological services).
• assimilate current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information to support incident management.
• provide status information about scheduled winter maintenance activities including anticipated closures and impact to the roadway, alternate routes, anticipated delays, closure times, and durations. The information is provided to other management centers such as traffic, emergency, transit, traveler information providers, other maintenance centers, and the media.
• provide work zone activities affecting the road network including the nature of the maintenance or construction activity, location, impact to the roadway, expected time(s) and duration of impact, anticipated delays, alternate routes, and suggested speed limits. This information may be augmented with images that provide a visual indication of current work zone status and traffic impacts.
• provide status information about scheduled maintenance and construction activities including anticipated closures and impact to the roadway, alternate routes, anticipated delays, closure times, and durations. The information is provided to other management centers such as traffic, emergency, transit, traveler information providers, other maintenance centers, multimodal transportation providers, rail operations, and the media.
• manage maintenance and construction resource needs.
• receive dispatch and routing information.
• monitor and diagnose field equipment remotely to detect failures, issue problems reports, and track the repair of failed equipment replacement.
• provide the capability to expand to include new functions to monitor real-time maintenance and construction activities and provide the data to transportation agencies and traveler information providers.