摘要: |
Development of the Ontario Bridge Management System (OBMS) began in 1998 and proceeded into the first steps of implementation in 2000. Implementation began with the bridge inspection and data management features, which are used heavily by inspectors in ministry regional offices as well as by consultants. Analytical features of the software, to be used by headquarters and regional offices, were completed in 2002, and their implementation is now under way. OBMS was designed with equal priority given to project-level and network-level functionality, but the implementation process has tended to favor the project level so far. Innovative features for navigating the data about each bridge, including photos, documents, and commentary, were completed first and have been well received in conjunction with a new element-level bridge inspection manual. The inventory is fully populated (except for smaller culverts) with a first round of inspections. The system's project-level decision support features have very flexible scoping rules, Markovian deterioration models, and a costing procedure based on the ministry's highway cost estimation system. Engineers can modify the scope and cost of a project, and predicted performance measures will be updated automatically. The OBMS network level is a graphical tradeoff analysis in which the manager can experiment with funding levels and performance targets and view immediate answers to such questions as: how much does it cost to achieve a given standard of performance, or how much performance can be purchased for a given investment?. |