LOCALIZED MOBILE DECISION SUPPORT METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING AND PERFORMING TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES
First Claim
1. A method of managing maintenance activities for one or more routes of a transportation infrastructure network at a localized level, comprising:
- simulating an impact of route-specific weather data on a local roadway, the route-specific weather data acquired from at least one remote server to a localized maintenance decision support environment that is proximate to or within a maintenance vehicle configured to perform a maintenance activity;
adjusting one or more simulation parameters to revise the simulated impact of the route-specific weather data on the local roadway, the one or more simulation parameters being user-adjustable in response to a simulation outcome and real-time road or weather conditions on the local roadway, the one or more simulation parameters including at least one of maintenance constraints and current conditions experienced on the local roadway; and
applying transportation infrastructure network information and maintenance vehicle data to revise the simulation of the impact of route-specific weather data on the local roadway to identify and generate one or more treatment recommendations to maintain the local roadway in response to the revised simulation.
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Abstract
Support for enabling maintenance decision-making activities within a transportation infrastructure network includes one or more methods, apparatuses and systems for localized assimilation, integration, and processing of both locally-generated and remotely-acquired road condition, treatment, and weather data within a mobile computing environment to improve the information available to manage maintenance decisions and performance. This maintenance decision-making support includes communication components and processing modules that integrate data from multiple external sources to locally simulate conditions on, and generate treatment recommendations for, local roadways and transportation network segments based on user-selected parameters.
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21 Claims
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1. A method of managing maintenance activities for one or more routes of a transportation infrastructure network at a localized level, comprising:
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simulating an impact of route-specific weather data on a local roadway, the route-specific weather data acquired from at least one remote server to a localized maintenance decision support environment that is proximate to or within a maintenance vehicle configured to perform a maintenance activity; adjusting one or more simulation parameters to revise the simulated impact of the route-specific weather data on the local roadway, the one or more simulation parameters being user-adjustable in response to a simulation outcome and real-time road or weather conditions on the local roadway, the one or more simulation parameters including at least one of maintenance constraints and current conditions experienced on the local roadway; and applying transportation infrastructure network information and maintenance vehicle data to revise the simulation of the impact of route-specific weather data on the local roadway to identify and generate one or more treatment recommendations to maintain the local roadway in response to the revised simulation. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An apparatus for managing maintenance activities for one or more routes of a transportation infrastructure network at a localized level, comprising:
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a mobile computing platform that includes vehicle-centric hardware and software components forming a localized maintenance decision support environment, proximate to or within a maintenance vehicle configured to perform or direct a maintenance activity relative to a local roadway; a plurality of modules configured to execute one or more data processing functions that model conditions on the local roadway in response to input data ingested from one or more external sources, the plurality of modules including; a road condition model configured for querying route-specific weather data relative to the local roadway and for simulating an impact of the route-specific weather data on the local roadway, and a treatment logic engine configured for identifying one or more treatment recommendations to maintain the local roadway in response to the queried route-specific weather data and simulated impact on the local roadway, transportation infrastructure network information ingested from one or more agency-specific servers, and maintenance vehicle data ingested from one or more maintenance vehicles capable of providing treatments to the local roadway, wherein the road condition model is further configured to generate one or more simulations in response to one or more simulation parameters representative of at least one of maintenance constraints and current conditions experienced on the local roadway, and one or more treatment recommendations to maintain the local roadway, following any one of a user request, a passage of a configurable length of time, or reception of a specific change of input data; and a touchscreen user interface enabling presentation of output data to a user of the mobile computing platform and input of the one or more simulation parameters entered by the user. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of localized analysis of roadway conditions for managing transportation infrastructure maintenance activities, comprising:
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integrating input data representative of weather conditions and maintenance activities for a local roadway into a plurality of data processing functions performed by one or modules in a localized maintenance decision support environment; modeling a road condition response to the input data representative of weather conditions and maintenance activities on a local roadway, the plurality of data processing functions configured at least to simulate an impact of route-specific weather data on a local roadway; evaluate an outcome of the simulated impact of route-specific weather data on the local roadway and apply one or more simulation parameters to revise a simulation of the impact of the route-specific weather data on the local roadway, the one or more simulation parameters being adjustable in response to the outcome of the simulated impact and real-time weather conditions on the local roadway, the one or more simulation parameters including at least one of maintenance constraints and current conditions experienced in real-time on the local roadway, adjust the simulated impact of route-specific weather data on the local roadway based upon the one or more simulation parameters by performing additional simulations, and apply transportation infrastructure network information and maintenance vehicle data to the additional simulations of the impact of route-specific weather data on the local roadway; generating output data that at least includes an identification of one or more treatment recommendations for the local roadway; and presenting the output data on a user interface to enable a determination of an appropriate maintenance response to the additional simulations and the one or more treatment recommendations. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21)
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