Roads Stream

Sarah JonesGI Manager

LandScope Engineering

LandScope Engineering• Integrated survey and geospatial engineering services• Multi disciplinary, multi dimensional approach• Laser Scanning since 2007• Mobile Mapping since 2010• Sonar underwater inspections since 2013

How asset location intelligence is driving highway efficiency gains

Setting the Scene• What is good asset management planning?• Key drivers• What is common practice today?

Mobile Mapping Solutions• Tools and technology• Innovative modelling for asset inventory

Case Study - Oxfordshire County Council• Fit for purpose solution• Efficiencies

Good Asset Management• Whole asset life cycle

– Asset Maintenance and Improvement– Asset Value

• Clear evidence for investment need– Complete and accurate asset inventory– Fit for purpose data

• Efficient highway service delivery– Targeted investment– Smarter working– Best use of resources and funds

Identify Need

Design and Development

UseMaintenance

Disposal or Renewal

DfT Element 2 funding – to improve asset

inventory data.

Public Accounts Committee – Fifteenth Report Maintaining Strategic Infrastructure : Roads September 2014

Highways Authorities criticised for not knowing enough about local road assets and 45 authorities were criticised for not having completed asset management plans (early 2014).

80% of an organisations data has a location

element. But do we really know where it is?

Gearing up for efficient highway delivery and funding – January 2014

Funding eligibility in 2015 - driven by efficiencies and good practice.

The highways sector must continue to generate ideas and tools to ensure its services meet challenging demands.Phil Brennan, Association for Public Service Excellence

Gearing up for efficient highway delivery and funding – January 2014

DfT encouraging local authorities to build up their asset inventory and analysis capabilities.

Ignite ideas

- Transformational change

- Innovative measures

- Greater Efficiencies

Common Practice Today

Lists• Often paper based• Sometimes disparate • Partial cross referencing• Limited spatial intelligence • Subjective interpretation• No visualisation

• Fully digitised datasets• Uniform open data formats• Unique ID for data integration• Fully geo-referenced in 3D• Imagery and overlay driven• Intuitive “StreetView” interface

Efficiency Drivers

Common Practice Today

Legacy Data• Approximate locations • Some data duplications• Often limited capture processes

– Techniques and technology – Incomplete due to inadequate

resource provision

• Accurate positioning intelligence• Detailed and correct inventory• Mobile Mapping

– Rapid, accurate, no site visits– Scalable, repeatable, multiple in-

house extractions from single campaign

Efficiency Drivers

Common Practice Today

Data Maintenance • Often undefined leading to

data potentially being…– Out of date

– Unusable

– Unreliable

Data Maintenance • Planned approach efined leading

to potential data issues such as– Repeatable campaigns, repeatable

accuracies achieved– Highly intuitive interface, open

formats, system integration– Imagery providing “real world”

verification

Efficiency Drivers

Plan

Collect

Process & Verify

Delivery

Integrate &

Augment

Analyse

Maintain & Update

Common Practice Today

Data Accessibility and Sharing• Often depts working in silo• Possible duplicated data• Data unavailable across systems• Some restrictions with mobile

and desktop data deployment

• Shared and combined data model• Update schedule – “only once”• Platform and format independent• Data available – desktop, browser,

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Efficiency Drivers

Common Practice Today

Integration and Interoperability• IT Infrastructure limitations• System compatibility issues

with legacy systems• Issues feeding into existing

workflows

Integration and Interoperability• Remote serving cost efficiencies• Platform and format

independent• Seamless integration to existing

back office systems

Efficiency Drivers

autoMAP Mobile Mapping provides a means of facilitating highway asset management

Asset Intelligence Gathering• Accurate and detailed inventory of highway assets• Enabling asset evaluation and assessment• Providing full visibility of the network

Mobile Mapping SolutionsRapidly and simultaneously acquires high accuracy point cloud

data and high resolution panoramic imagery.Methodology is • Accurate

– 3D positioning technology

• Safe– Removes survey personnel from the carriageway

• Efficient– Rapid acquisition– One campaign feeds many

• Cost Effective– Removes need for traffic management or road closures

Tools and Technologies• Topcon IP-S2 Compact +• Orbit Geospatial Technologies

Data Outputs• High Density LiDAR• High Resolution Imagery

Innovative Modelling for Asset Inventory• Fit for purpose solution

– Orbit Asset Inventory Management– Point, click and map technology– Intuitive user interface – Google ‘StreetView’

• Evidence based modelling– Justify need for investment– Strong case for funding eligibility from 2015 onwards

• Asset Inventory Analysis (encouraged by the DfT)– What assets you have– Where are they located– What condition the assets are in

Case Study Oxfordshire County Council

Oxfordshire is a Local Authority which has stepped up to the challenge • Shared vision• Requirements analysis• Defined model • Accurate fully geo-referenced dataset • Scalable – future extraction potential • Integration into existing back office systems

AcquisitionLiDAR point cloud and imagery for 5000km road network

Project Planning• Trajectory accuracy• Route optimisation• Weather• Survey conditions e.g. leaf cover v leaf fall• Point cloud noise e.g. parked cars

Full Detailed Asset Inventory• Scalable and Repeatable

– New assets, new types– Targeted acquisition campaigns, redrive circa. 5 years– New requirements and future in-house extraction potential

• Use of Orbit Asset Inventory Management • GIS based• Feature Extraction ‘Point and Click’• Attribution• Asset Data Volumes

– Drainage (points) – Pedestrian guardrails (lines)– Verges (polygons)

Theme Number of Records

Drainage gripskerbslottedopen channelother

73845049

604694935102

Drainagegully standardgully side entryoffletcatchpit or soakawayother *

1286239616710846

9521001110647

Noise Fencing 4

Non illuminated Traffic Signs 50753

Pedestrian Guardrails 3227

Safety Barriercorrugated beamopen box beamwire ropeother

2131670524

9928

Verges 70891

Verge Marker Posts 14153

gully standardgully side entryoffletcatchpit or soakaway

Data Sharing• Asset inventory utilised across the organisation

– Operational and Administrative (Field and Office based)– Desktop and Mobile deployment– Multi-disciplines (Drainage, Highways, Bridge Inspection, Planning, Land and

Highway Records)

• Encourages collaborative working• Encourages transparency• Reduces cost of developing and maintaining valuable data resources

Data Accessibility• Integration

– Bentley EXOR– Concepts-online – Other cross-departmental datasets – Inspire – metadata

• Interoperability - API– Web and Mobile deployment

How asset location intelligence is driving highway efficiency gains

Reduction in site visits Gully cleaning improvements

Grounds Maintenance Contract – verge grass cutting

Development of and maintaining shared datasets

Improvements to “customer led” reporting Orbit roll out – saving through application

Legacy data v autoMAP data

Traditional data collection v mobile mappingSmart scheme design

Remote site visualisationData confidence = data reuse

Highways Maintenance – CVI, DVI

How asset location intelligence is driving highway efficiency gains

Database reconciliation – highway records, land ownership, bridge asset planning

Highway Topographical MappingBridge Inspections

Contract Tendering - BOQ

Soft Estate Management

Enabling mobile working for field maintenance crews

Planned preventative measures rather than reactive “worst first approach”

Accurate measurements from the photographic domain

Full and detailed asset inventory – decision making tool

Prioritisation schedule for works

Concluding Outcomes..• Leveraging technology for Local Government

– Use of innovative tools– Mobile deployment options– “smarter working”

• Empowering OCC– Accurate, reliable data – identifying asset locations– Develop strategic asset management plans

Asset whole life cycle costsFunding model and allocation