Civil Information Modeling and Social Assessment for Sustainable Infrastructure Management

建筑信息建模（BIM）正在将建筑施工从一个基本上基于图纸的行业转变为一个基于共享计算机模型的行业。这项研究将有助于将这一变革性技术从建筑领域扩展到民用基础设施领域--民用信息建模（CIM）。首先，研究将开发数据表示模型，将资产管理信息纳入CIM，并将这些数据纳入国际数据标准。其次，这些数据将用于支持先进的决策支持分析和工具，帮助基础设施管理人员在有限资源的限制下，从广泛的基础设施开发、运营和维护行动中确定“最佳”行动方案（即最佳、最具成本效益、最可持续）。第三，将开发评估基础设施系统的技术、经济和可持续性绩效的技术，特别强调从最终用户和其他公共群体收集数据的工具（利用社会网络技术）。这些进步将有助于提供新一代的信息技术，帮助解决我们公共基础设施面临的重大挑战。

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is transforming building construction from an industry that is fundamentally based on drawings to one that is based on shared computer models. This research will help to extend this transformational technology from buildings to the field of civil infrastructure--Civil Information Modeling (CIM). First, the research will develop data representation models to incorporate asset management information into CIM and will contribute these to international data standards. Second, these data will be used to support advanced decision support analysis and tools that will help infrastructure managers to identify the “best” course of action (i.e. optimal, most cost-effective, most sustainable) from a wide range of possible infrastructure development, operations, and maintenance actions, given the constraints of limited resources. Third, techniques will be developed to assess the technical, economic and sustainability performance of infrastructure systems, with a particular emphasis on tools that collect data from end users and other public groups (by making use of social networking techniques). Together, these advances will help provide a new generation of information technologies that can help to address the significant challenges facing our public infrastructure.