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Photo for visual interest. Infrastructure elements on the transportation right of way: roadway, signs and other roadside features, and aboveground as well as underground utilities.

Infrastructure elements on the transportation right of way: roadway, signs and other roadside features, as well as aboveground and underground utilities.

Infrastructure Management Program

Description

The mission of the Infrastructure Management Program (IMP) is to conduct leading-edge research and technology transfer in the areas of data inventory and maintenance, data modeling, data exchange and integration, and optimization of the project development process to address urgent infrastructure data management needs throughout the lifetime of transportation facilities. IMP spans the traditional areas of transportation planning, design, operations, and maintenance.

The Infrastructure Management Program is located in San Antonio, Texas, at the TransGuide Building (map).

Expertise

Human talent provides the foundation for the program through the collective experience, skills, and interests of researchers, support personnel, and students. Examples of focus areas for IMP researchers include the following:

  • development of geographic information system (GIS)-based data models to improve transportation infrastructure inventory and management;
  • application of Internet-based technologies to optimize transportation data exchange processes;
  • development of data models and processes to optimize utility coordination and utility conflict management and resolution;
  • development of techniques to optimize permitting processes at transportation agencies;
  • development of planning and operations applications of geo-referenced intelligent transportation system (ITS) data, including data imputation and aggregation;
  • development of data models to document and optimize critical areas in the project development process;
  • application of global positioning system (GPS) technology to transportation;
  • development of 3D and 4D (spatio-temporal) CAD- and GIS-based visualization techniques to assist in transportation analyses; and
  • development of techniques to model and visualize uncertainty in transportation infrastructure data.

Professional Organizations

IMP researchers participate actively in professional organizations through memberships, participation in committees, and/or paper reviews. Examples include the following:

  • American Society of Civil Engineers
  • Bureau of Transportation Statistics' Geographic Information Framework Data Contents Standards for Transportation
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • Institute of Transportation Engineers
  • Transportation Research Board
  • Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA)

IMP researchers have published in a number of peer-reviewed journals, including the following:

  • ITE Journal
  • Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Journal of Transportation Engineering
  • Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
  • URISA Journal

Cooperative Relationships/Sponsors

IMP has worked cooperatively with a number of agencies as well as other groups within the institute. Examples include the following:

  • Southwest Region University Transportation Center
  • Texas A&M University
  • Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi
  • Texas Department of Transportation
  • TTI Center for Transportation Safety
  • University of South Florida
  • West Texas A&M University
  • Instituto Mexicano del Transporte (IMT)

For More Information

Cesar Quiroga
Infrastructure Management Program
Texas Transportation Institute
Texas A&M University System
3500 NW Loop 410, Suite 315
San Antonio, TX 78229
ph. (210) 731-9938 · fax (210) 731-8904
c-quiroga@tamu.edu

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