Publications / 2005 Proceedings of the 22nd ISARC, Ferrara, Italy

Towards Automated Total Process in Road Construction

Rauno Heikkilä, Mika Jaakkola
Abstract:

Information technology can be generally understood as techniques and methods needed for creating, processing, refining, transferring and utilizing information through different working processes of construction. For managing information process different measurement, software, modeling, information communication as well as numeric control technologies are needed on the operational level. A visionary model of automated total process for future road construction is introduced. The main parts of the model have been tested by several different R&D projects carried out in Finland 2001-2004.

Keywords: Construction, Total process, Information technology, automation.