(I'm early in this Work in Progress (feel free to send me links and info))
Dirt Lags Behind. Or does it?
Highway and Site Engineering are in the rearguard of industries moving to Digital Twins.
Earthwork, a major component of our work effort, is rather static.
How do we make the case to our agencies and to Engineering Procurement and Construction Companies?
Different Needs, Different Approaches...
Why: Owner Operators (Transportation Agencies)
Obviously, "digitizing dirt" will not be the digital adoption driver for DOTs.
Drivers for Adoption will lie along
- Reality Modeling - it's a core driver for Digitizing Assets. It also has a lot of enthusiasm and momentum.
- Non-dirt Asset Management: pavement conditions, Road Furniture
- Traffic Signalization and Equipment
- Resiliency
- Readiness
- Response
- Recovery
Why? EPC Companies
Lead your clients. Build credibility and trust as partner in the future.
Expand your Total Addressable Market. If you master this early, you can dramatically expand the scope of your services.
Going Digital in the Roadway Market
A good overview of Bentley's Forecast of the near-term Industry Future:
- The Future of Technology Keeping Pace with Industry Challenges and Trends: How to Accelerate Your Digital Advancement. Presented by Senior Vice President Dustin Parkman, it is hosted at Workcast.com. It is free, but registration is required.
- Dustin gave this at the 2018 OpenRoads Learn Conference. I remember most of it going over my head at the time. A few months later I presented it at AECNext in Anaheim in Spring of 2019.
Bentley does have solutions in place.
"Traditional" Road Assets
Linear Road Network Management
AssetWise ALIM Linear Road Network Management
Some videos (note these may be obsoleted)
- YouTube Channel: Bentley Transportation Asset Management (subscribe!)
Traffic Modeling
Bentley has acquired Citilabs - "bringing intelligence to movement"
Reality Modeling
This is big and it's probably the leading driver in the Digital Twinning of Roadway and municipal projects.
Bentley's ContextCapture is YUUGE!
- Bentley ContextCapture home page
- Designers, once they're worked with integrated reality models, will insist on them for all new projects. The good news is that they can literally take matters into their own hands with their cell phones: DIY: Reality Modeling
OrbitGT - a new Bentley acquisition - is a world leader in 3D Mapping
Simulation
Synchro integrates time (a primary differentiator from BIM) to your Civil design and construction processes.
