Dubai Municipality

Pavement Management System (DMPMS)

AgileAssets Pavement Manager® was implemented for Dubai Municipality in years 2001 – 2003. Dubai Municipality manages 4000 km Road Network which includes a mixture of Urban and Rural roads.

Challenge:

Dubai Municipality has historically used manual pavement surface distress data collection and 19 distresses were collected. Several problems were identified by Dubai Municipality and AgileAssets regarding the pavement surface distress data collection.

• There were too many distresses to collect
• Field data collection was inefficient and time consuming

Dubai Municipality performs the following data collection:

• 50% network surveyed each year
• Each PM section is divided in 100m long sample units
• 30% sample units are surveyed at Rural network
• 100% sample units are surveyed for Urban – Arterials, Locals, Collectors

The challenge was to first identify the representative and a reasonable number of distress types and second to make the data collection and data entry efficient.

AgileAssets Solution

AgileAssets conducted sample surveys to identify which distresses are frequent and which are not. Six years of historical distress data was reviewed. A total of nine distress types were retained for Dubai Municipality PMS.

In order to overccome the inefficiencies of traditional paper pencil walking surveys which required field data to be manually entered into the system by technicians, AgileAssets looked to tablet computers for direct field data entry.
An improved data collection software application was developed to record distress data in the field. Data transfer interfaces were utilized which allowed for the uploading and downloading of data between the tablet computers and the PMS database server. The software window screen and the tablets implemented in Dubai are shown here.

Results:

• PMS project won the award in the “Distinguished Technical Project” category in the Dubai Government Excellence Program Awards in 2003.
• Dubai Municipality was able to significantly reduce the data collection and data entry resources by adopting a new data collection technique with the help of AgileAssets.

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