| dc.description.abstract | It has been more than 6 years since the Public Construction Commission
rolled out the road-smoothing project in 2008. The quality of pavement works is
indeed improved these days. However, no significant breakthrough is made in
terms of the integration of pavement maintenance. The studies on the pavement
management system are mostly function-oriented, but the system is less than
effective in applications as the fundamental problem still remains unsolved.
Facing the “post-road-smoothing project era,” government agencies have to deal
with the constant changes in the outside world and consider whether the workers,
budgets, IT equipment, management system are fit for the future. It is necessary
to examine the strategies for system management in order to cope with new
coming challenges.
Unlike previous studies focusing on the development of single systems,
this study was intended to focus on the idea of pavement maintenance
information management center and develop an information management
system that meets the needs of a management center. The service-oriented
approach (SOA) was introduced to develop a pavement maintenance
information management platform that improves the integration and
convergence of information. Pavement information was put together and
converted into 3D graphic presentation to support time history presented by
tracking back along timeline. Road inspection tours and maintenance actions
were well documented for further analysis. On the other hand, a logic method
was adopted for the establishment of an expert system for pavement
maintenance knowledge; i.e. pavement maintenance models were standardized
to allow engineers to learn and search for tools for decision making. This expert
system serves as a tool for pavement guides, training programs and knowledge
mining in order to encourage the learning behaviors of engineers. It contains
well-preserved knowledge that is digitalized to pass down and provides
assistance in maintenance management works for the pavement maintenance
information management center mentioned above.
The maintenance engineers of government agencies no longer have to
fight alone. In the existing organization, the pavement maintenance information
management center runs the operation pattern management in concentrated
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teams. Government agencies are allowed to stay on top of road conditions
within the regions of individual jurisdiction, use the converged information for
decision analysis, allocate maintenance resources in an appropriate way, and
thus improve the quality of pavement maintenance. | en_US |