Article from issue CAD & GIS for roads. — 2014. — No.1(2)

BIM for the road industry: anything new or are we already dealing with it?

DOI: 10.17273/CADGIS.2014.1.2

  • A.V. Skvortsov, Dr.Sc., Professor, professor of TSU (Tomsk, Russia), chief executive officer (CEO) of IndorSoft LLC (Tomsk, Russia)

The article discusses the evolution of computer-aided design, which led to the emergence of such modern concepts of lifecycle management as PLM and BIM. It shows the inability of direct application of these concepts to the road industry because of differences in the structure of road life cycle as well as the nature of data models. It also describes the already existing approach based on GIS and CAD technologies developed by IndorSoft. This approach covers design and operation of the road within the whole life cycle and in many respects conforms to the declared aims of the future "BIM for infrastructure" concept developed by international consortium buildingSMART.

Keywords

BIM, building information modelling, information modelling, road information modelling, CAD, computer-aided design, computer-aided road design, road design, highway engineering, GIS, geographic information system, GIS for road and highway management, technical regulations, roads, highways, road infrastructure

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