Reducing operating expenses by 78%

Automated road condition check in Dubai

Automated System A comprehensive program to automate the performance of the road network.

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The Roads and Transport Authority in Dubai has developed the automated system for assessing the condition of roads and managing their maintenance, in order to achieve the relevant strategic objectives.

The system achieved a rationalization in operating expenses equivalent to 78% of the value of the annual maintenance work, by following smart software in the optimal planning of maintenance work demonstrated by the new system compared to the traditional method in this field.

The system is considered a comprehensive program to automate and govern the evaluation of the performance of the functional and constructional pavement condition of the road network through software applications, such as automated pavement management systems.

Hamad Al Shehhi, Director of Roads Maintenance and Facilities Department at Traffic and Roads Agency, said that the system is the digital (electronic) version of roads with artificial intelligence techniques in applying the strategies and policies of the authority and maintenance management to assess the road network and choose the optimal type of maintenance within the allocated budgets for the maintenance of the road network.

He added, "The development is subject to great challenges in view of the continued expansion of the network through the construction of new roads, represented by the exposure of the network to various factors that lead to the emergence of some damages due to its obsolescence due to environmental factors or operational loads."

Al-Shehhi emphasized the provision of a software mechanism to achieve the transition to the digital version of the roads, which programmed the identification of annual maintenance needs and their implementation based on the planning carried out through these modern systems, to please and satisfy road users first and rationalize operating expenses secondly.

He stated that the system was developed to work on distributing the budget among the network maintenance activities in order to ensure that it maintains its quality in an optimal manner and makes the best use of the available budget.

He explained that the automated system for assessing the condition of roads and managing their maintenance is a smart and technical system with laser scanning techniques to configure the digital version of roads and to verify the life cycle of paving assets and their maintenance in the Department of Road Maintenance and Facilities. Parts of the road network within the system have a fixed digital label in the system database, which represents the smallest part that can be used in planning maintenance work, as the network has been divided in the digital version of the roads into parts not exceeding 100 m track, and this is to raise the data accuracy by 99% by raising the reliability index The accuracy of the data and its compliance with the sites to more than 97%, the accuracy of locating damages on the network through automatic detection of damages, the accuracy of determining the optimal type of maintenance on the network, and the rationalization of operational expenses by performing maintenance on sites that have the optimal priority for maintenance, while making the most of the budget available,Thus, it became possible in the system to obtain an inventory of road lengths data according to their functional importance as highways, main and internal roads, as the digital version of the roads helps in this automatically.

Al-Shehhi concluded by emphasizing the economic feasibility of developing the digital version of the roads and smart maintenance management systems to maintain the network, which are summarized in a number of benefits: keeping pace with the industrial revolution in the application of digital technology to create the digital version of the roads, and achieving rationalization in maintenance spending.

The Automated System for Road Condition Assessment and Maintenance Management is an intelligent system with laser scanning techniques.

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