ROUTING LARGE VEHICLES ON INDUSTRIAL CONSTRUCTION SITES

Citation
K. Varghese et Jt. Oconnor, ROUTING LARGE VEHICLES ON INDUSTRIAL CONSTRUCTION SITES, Journal of construction engineering and management, 121(1), 1995, pp. 1-12
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Construcion & Building Technology","Engineering, Civil","Engineering, Industrial
ISSN journal
07339364
Volume
121
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
1 - 12
Database
ISI
SICI code
0733-9364(1995)121:1<1:RLVOIC>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
This paper describes the development of a prototype system for plannin g access routes for large vehicles within an industrial construction s ite. Access planning is an important consideration in the development of an effective project-execution plan. But conventional planning tool s do not facilitate effective planning. The primary objectives of this work are to define a structured process for planning access and to au tomate the tedious and difficult tasks within the process. Concepts fr om the areas of information representation, geometric reasoning, and a rtificial intelligence are found to be applicable for automating route -planning tasks. The implementation of these concepts to develop the r oute-planning system is achieved by using the expert system Nexpert Ob ject and the geographic information system Arc/Info in conjunction wit h the computer-aided design (CAD) package Microstation, the spreadshee t Excel, and custom programs.