| dc.description.abstract | Taiwan is a mountainous country. The density of highway in Taiwan gradually approaches to become saturated. The pavement conditions continue deteriorating due to heavy traffic volume, temperature variation, and intensive rainfall which cause cracking, bleeding, rutting, and potholes on pavements. From now on, the road policy should change from new construction to maintenance and management. In the future, road development should emphasize sustainable planning and management, instead of rapid construction.
In Taiwan, the related pavement management systems implemented in a single highway authority often have varioussystem architechtures. Besides, pavement management dataare often not integrated and therefore cannot be directly applied to each system. Due to these challenges in Taiwan, this study aims at developing an integrated national pavement management system (NPMS) platformThis study uses the concept of cloud computing to integrate network-level and project-level pavement management systems which are already implemented in different authorities. Meanwhile, this study develop a “dynamic segmentation” function for pavement evaluation; which is able to automatically generate a private cloud system at a fixed- networking service and then analyze the data through “grid calculation” in this NPMS platform.
All pavement evaluation information is assigned into each segment or block, then following their attribute or property to generate a grading system, and displayed on different GIS layers. The GIS layers process the multi-layer and multi purpose analysis in this NPMS platform. In the future, the public and road authorities will clearly understand the pavement conditions while they click the pavement section from the Internet. This integrated platform serves as a common platform in Taiwan for pavement management. In addition, this platform has performance evaluation function, which stores all relevant data of pavement management in Taiwan. | en_US |