uGRIDD is on Passenger Transport: "WMATA Metrorail Using ‘Big Data’ to Install Cellular Service"
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“In the U.S., mobile LiDAR mapping technology had not been used in tunnels on any known project more than five miles in length,” Falken said. Metrorail engaged Maser Consulting, P.A., an engineering firm specializing in geospatial services, to test the mobile technology on a five-mile section.
The demonstration was successful. Next, the engineering firm made the “big data” readily available to Metrorail engineers and the cellular companies using uGRIDD infrastructure data management service, which allows users to view, measure, extract and download information in a secure server environment...
* Metrorail LiDAR display showing cable placement and data extraction tool in uGRIDD uPANO
Description: “With the LiDAR data stored on uGRIDD anyone can zoom down a 360 degree LiDAR depiction of a rail line and find the data you need. It avoids time intensive and costly field work,” said Jim Harper, CTA chief engineer for infrastructure.Harper believes that asbuilt dimensions of the CTA rail infrastructure provided by LiDAR will help to create a good capital asset inventory of the system, improving capital asset management and application of CTA’s limited capital improvement funds. .... ...
Description: “With the LiDAR data stored on uGRIDD anyone can zoom down a 360 degree LiDAR depiction of a rail line and find the data you need. It avoids time intensive and costly field work,” said Jim Harper, CTA chief engineer for infrastructure.Harper believes that asbuilt dimensions of the CTA rail infrastructure provided by LiDAR will help to create a good capital asset inventory of the system, improving capital asset management and application of CTA’s limited capital improvement funds. .... ...
Description: When digital data began to “come of age” as the dominant information management paradigm of our computerized age, archivists and librarians were at first elated by the possibilities. It seemed that clunky, bulky indexing methods based on card files and bound ledgers were a thing of the past, and that the retrieval of stored information would soon be nearly frictionless. It’s true that much of that vision has been realized—digital data has, by and large, proven to be a better way of storing and managing vast amounts of information. ...
Description: Most surveyors and, more specifically, owners and managers of survey firms, would say that our work is project-based—that is, we tend to speak of the “Jones Boundary Survey” or the “Smith Construction As-Built” when we divide up our workdays. And of course this is a natural and smart way to organize infrastructure work; project-based workflows have been around for a long time and are responsible for the Pyramids, the Moon landings, and just about everything in between those two milestones....
Description: Long-term archiving of infrastructure project data has been a vexing challenge for owners, operators, contractors and other project stakeholders. Paper--in the form of plans, calculations, quantity sheets, schedules, punch lists, spreadsheets, maps, etc.--is difficult to index and manage physically, degrades over time and can be tedious to consult. Consequently, there have been few successful attempts to store all relevant paper data in one physical location, using one indexing system. Instead, professionals archive only the information pertaining to their project role...
Description: In the world of infrastructure projects, surveyors have a very interesting and important role. They are often the first infrastructure professionals to spend significant time on the project site identifying project boundaries and establishing controls for all subsequent work. While doing their highly specialized work, surveyors develop the most accurate and useful site information available. And in recent years, assuming they’re working with laser scanners, imaging total stations, ground penetrating radar, GNSS equipment and the like, surveyors are also using some...
Long-term archiving of infrastructure project data has been a vexing challenge for owners, operators, contractors and other project stakeholders. Paper—in the form of plans, calculations, quantity sheets, schedules, punch lists, spreadsheets, maps, etc.—is difficult to index and manage physically, degrades over time, and can be tedious to consult. Consequently, there have been few successful attempts to store all relevant paper data in one physical location, using one indexing system. Instead, professionals archive only the information pertaining to their project role...