Electronic Railroad Inspection Database System for Military Facilities

Abstract

The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) executes inspection programs as part of the U.S. Army Transportation Infrastructure Inspection Program (ATIIP). These inspections, monitoring, and assessment programs include airfields, bridges, dams, railroads, waterfront facilities, and ranges. To date, the process for these inspection programs has been manually intensive, time consuming, and difficult to scale. The ERDC is bringing digital business and spatial data collection methods to its inspection program for the militarys railroad infrastructure. By combining GPS and GIS technologies into a mobile data collection solution, added efficiency and data quality have been brought to the field inspection workflow. This modernization effort also results in streamlined data processing and reporting. These improved processes will lead to higher quality data, better analysis of the new richer data content, and better decisions made by the end-users and stakeholders.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2020
Accession Number
AD1109407

Entities

People

  • Anthony J. Falls
  • Caleb Carter
  • Chad A. Gartrell
  • Judy Reagan
  • Lora L. Johnson
  • T. J. Beasley

Organizations

  • Engineer Research and Development Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Commerce
  • Data Processing
  • Databases
  • Digital Data
  • Efficiency
  • Engineers
  • Information Systems
  • Infrastructure
  • Inspection
  • Military Facilities
  • Mobile Devices
  • Standards
  • Storage
  • Test Facilities
  • Transportation
  • Transportation Infrastructure

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Hydrologic Risk Analysis and Mitigation.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Space