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Data Integration for Asset Management - Status
Report
Roemer Alfelor Office of Asset Management Federal
Highway Administration

• 5th National Transportation Asset Management
  Conferences
• Atlanta, GA - Sept. 30, 2003
• Seattle, WA - Oct. 21, 2003

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Role of Data Integration in AM
What is Data Integration?
Process of combining or linking two or more data
sets from different sources to facilitate data
sharing, promote effective data gathering and
analysis, and support overall information
management activities in an organization.
(Source Data Integration Primer, FHWA Office of
Asset Management)
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Role of Data Integration in AM
Communication Requirements

• Transmits information quickly and
• effectively
• Allows vertical/horizontal flow of data
• Uses comprehensive information
• Provides common, consolidated data
• to all users

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Role of Data Integration in AM
Benefits

• Accessibility/Availability/Timeliness
• Quality/Consistency/Redundancy
• Comprehensiveness
• Integrated Decision-Making
• Reduced Storage Requirements

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State of Practice in US

• Comprehensive AM uncommon
• Agencies have different DI requirements
• Many need more info, guidance
• What data? What aspect of AM?
• How? Which technology?
• Success Stories and Lessons Learned
• Measures of Success
• Technical and Organizational Challenges

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Data Integration Challenges

• Legacy Data/Systems The Stovepipes
• Integration Architecture/Strategy
• Data Interoperability/Standardization
• Data Management Technology
• Location Referencing
• People/Organizational Culture
• Integrated Decision-Making

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FHWA Activities
Review of Data Integration Practices

• General literature review
• Detailed review of 27 agencies
• 24 State agencies
• 3 Local Agencies
• Professional groups
• Innovative data integration
• strategies
• Case Study Recommendations

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FHWA Activities
Data Integration Case Studies

• Completed
• Michigan DOT
• To Follow
• Arizona DOT
• Colorado DOT
• New York State DOT
• Pennsylvania DOT
• Virginia DOT
• etc.

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FHWA Activities
Asset Management Data Collection Guide

• FHWA Contract with VDOT
• AASHTO-AGC-ARTBA Task Force 45
• Guide will contain
• Data Dictionary for AM Data
• Data Collection/Processing Methods
• Data Integration Requirements
• Project will also develop Strategic Plan for AM
  data collection research

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FHWA Activities
State Working Group

• State and Federal Representatives
• Alaska Michigan Ohio
• Kansas Mississippi S. Carolina
• Illinois Montana
• Maine New York
• Developed Long-Term Research
• and Technical Assistance Plan

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Relevant Activities/Events

• TRB Data Integration Workshop
• January 11, 2004 (Washington, DC)
• Conferences/Meetings
• GIS-T
• AASHTO/TRB Committees and Task Forces
• NCHRP Project 20-64
• XML Standard for Transportation Data Exchange
  (forthcoming)
• MRUTC Pooled Fund Studies
• Development of an Integrated Data and Information
  Management Approach

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Contact Info
Roemer Alfelor 202-366-9242 E-mail
roemer.alfelor_at_fhwa.dot.gov Website
http//www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/
asstmgmt/diindex.htm
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