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A great challenge for road authorities is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their core processes by improving data exchange and sharing using new technologies such as building information modeling (BIM). BIM has already been successfully implemented in other sectors, such as architecture. But the civil infrastructure sector still lags behind. This paper reports the core findings of the research undertaken in an FP7 project called V-Con, Virtual Construction for Roads. In this EU-funded project, BIM technologies are being implemented at road authorities. Typical interest areas of the road authorities are the programming phase, in which requirements management and systems engineering play a key role, as well as the use and maintenance phase, in which asset management is essential. These processes require special attention in information management for road authorities. Furthermore, road authorities are interested in standardized “as designed” road information. IFC would be a good standard for this, but there is no “IFC for roads” yet. But road authorities are also interested in information about the context of the road, as usually defined in GIS. So GIS should be linked to the envisaged system as well. Finally, it was observed that there is a need in the infrastructure sector for so-called concept libraries, libraries with objects and concepts that can be located and managed on different levels (from project-specific to national and global). It was found that the support of such libraries requires changes in the way information modeling and exchange is commonly approached. The new approach is called “distributed modeling” and will be elaborated in this paper |
