Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute

Matunga, Mumbai.

GIS based Road Construction

Presented by
NINAD D. SAWANT
142030016
M. Tech. (Construction Management) 1
 INTRODUCTION
 Roadway construction planning processes involve a large
amount of information regarding design, construction
methods, quantities, unit costs, and production rates.

 GIS is a strong tool for integrating and managing various

types of information such as spatial and non-spatial data
required for roadway construction planning.

 The roadway design process has been improved greatly by

using CAD/CAE tools. Therefore most design data are
created and stored electronically.

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 However, the digitized design data is not been fully utilized

for construction planning purposes.

 The proposed system supports the roadway construction

planning with Information Integration , Spatial Analysis
and Visualization functions.

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 GIS SYSTEM
 Inspite of the major technological changes in construction
industry, it still remains highly labor intensive,
decentralized, and dependent on uncertain economic and
working environments.
 As far as roadway construction is concerned, it is basically
a linear type of repetitive project involving number of
activities & equal number of crews working on it.
 Huge amount of information regarding design, construction
methodology to be followed, quantities, unit costs &
production rates.etc is to be continuously processed &
refined with time.
 Doing this manually by conventional methods is time
consuming & cumbersome as the size of the projects today 4
has increased
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 Geographic Information System is a computer based tool

which can be used for
 capturing

 storing

 analyzing

 querying

 displaying the geographic information.

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 OVERALL STRUCTURE
 Two dimensional CAD drawings are converted to several
shapefiles which are a type of GIS formatted-files according
to geometry such as points, lines, and polygons.
 The converted shapefiles contain spatial feature attribute
table with the conventional feature attributes and the shape
features.
 The spatial feature attributes are integrated with the non-
spatial attributes including construction information such as
activity assemblies, unit costs, and production rates.
 The system then generates a table containing the quantities,
the costs, the activity lists and their durations.

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 This table can be transferred directly to a commercial
scheduling software.
 After detailed scheduling based on the data in the table with
a scheduling application program, the date information is
returned to the system and connected to the corresponding
construction elements by the system.

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CLASSIFICATION OF ELEMENTS

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 The roadway construction is composed of three work

sections,
Pavement
Earthwork
Drainage
 The construction elements of the work section are classified
and stored in separate shapefiles according to their
geometry.
 The tables contain both the conventional feature attributes
such as object id, area, and length etc. and the shape
features such as the coordinates of the shape components.
 The non-spatial attribute tables are composed of ‘Activity
Assembly’ for each construction element, ‘Unit Cost’, and
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 OTHER SYSTEM FEATURES

 Modularized construction
 Visualization of Activity Sequences
 Using aerial photographs
 Operation Level Planning
 Temporary Road Design

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 CASE STUDY
 A 30 km long stretch of Pen –Panvel section of NH 17
which was being four laned from Pen to Indapur, Raigad
district, Maharashtra.

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 The application was developed in GIS software Gram ++.To
begin with, the original CAD file was converted into a
bitmap image.
 The geographical co-ordinates of the stretch were known
and entered in the software.
 This image was then imported to the input output module of
Gram ++.The entire map was then digitised to get a replica
of the same in gram++.
 Different layers of work were formed so that information of
varying nature can be linked to them.
 The basic operations were then carried out in the vector
analysis module.

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 The desired database was then created by using add field and
modify field to database options available in Operations
menu of vector analysis module.
 It may happen that we need to add certain non-spatial data
which cannot be added in the database.
 Queries are then run to get the desired information out of the
database and images attached as a map.

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 RESULTS
 Fig below shows us the result of the query run to display
sections of road wherein the work completion in % is less
than 50.This can help the planning personnel to know the
current status of an activity. At the same time, he may take
the necessary step to accelerate the work if required.

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o Fig below shows us the child map attached to the

database and vector file which gives us all the details
related to section

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 REFERENCES
 “GIS Based Roadway Construction Planning” By Gawade
Prathamesh, Mhaske Sumedh.

 “Gis-based Roadway Construction Planning” By Sanghyeok

Kang , Jongwon Seo.

 “Applications Of Gis In Transportation” By Gary S. Spring.

 “National Highway Alignment Using Gis” By T.Subramani ,

S Nanda Kumar.

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Thank you

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