The Proactive Infrastructure Monitoring and Evaluation (PRIME) System: Technology Demonstrator for Remote Monitoring of Transportation Earthworks

拟议的项目旨在通过一个经济上可行的监测和预警系统PRIME改变当前的资产管理做法，该系统产生近实时信息，为一系列基础设施不稳定问题提供决策支持和“解决方案”。该项目旨在展示和验证新开发的地球物理监测技术，以提高脆弱铁路和水资源的恢复能力运输土方工程基础设施面临环境风险，如极端天气和洪水。这项新技术可以将有关土方工程内部状况的近实时信息直接传输给岩土工程资产所有者，从而可以在早期阶段识别边坡破坏过程，从而可以在对基础设施干扰最小的情况下规划低成本的预防性干预措施（而不是高成本的更新和补救灾难性的故障，这可能是高度破坏性的-特别是对铁路行业来说，由于与延误相关的经济处罚）。为了响应行业合作伙伴的指导，我们的目标是通过在更大范围的运营环境中测试该方法来进一步展示和验证PRIME概念，包括铁路路堤和运河网上的挡水结构。这将使项目团队（资产所有者、管理者和研究提供者）能够考虑一系列实际部署选项，展示自适应智能监控方法，进行成本效益分析，并通过利用本项目下开发的案例研究成果和相关创新B项目期间进行的研究，正式评估PRIME的技术就绪程度。该项目的总体目标是向利益攸关方提供必要的证据，证明PRIME可作为一种经济上可行的监测、预警和决策支持系统（即“解决方案”），用于解决一系列基础设施不稳定问题。

The proposed project seeks to change current asset management practice with an economically viable monitoring and early warning system, PRIME, that produces near-real-time information to provide decision support and 'solutions' for a range of infrastructure earthwork instability problems.In particular, this project aims to demonstrate and validate newly developed geophysical monitoring technology as a means of improving the resilience of vulnerable rail and water transportation earthworks infrastructure to environmental risks, such as extreme weather and flooding. The new technology could stream near-real-time information on the internal condition of earthworks direct to geotechnical asset owners - thereby allowing slope failure processes to be identified at an early stage so low cost preventative intervention can be planned with minimal disruption to infrastructure (rather than high-cost renewal and remediation of catastrophic earthwork failures, which can be highly disruptive - particularly for the rail industry due to financial penalties associated with delays).In response to guidance by the industrial partners we aim to further demonstrate and validate the PRIME concept by testing the approach in a greater range of operational settings, including a railway embankment and a water retaining structure on the canal network. This will allow the project team (asset owners, managers and research providers) to consider a range of practical deployment options, demonstrate an adaptive intelligent monitoring approach, undertake a cost benefit analysis, and formally assess the Technology Readiness Level of PRIME by drawing upon the outcomes of the case studies developed under this project and the study undertaken during the related Innovation B project. The overarching aim of the project is to provide the necessary evidence to the stakeholders that PRIME is applicable as an economically viable monitoring, early warning and decision support system (i.e. a 'solution') for a range of infrastructure earthwork instability problems.