DelDOT receives $4 million from the Federal Highway Administration’s Advanced Digital Construction Management Systems grant program.
That program is run by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration, and works to digitize and innovate everyday processes in transportation infrastructure.
Delaware was one of 10 states to receive funding through this initiative.
DelDOT will primarily use the money to automate data collection processes at road project worksites.
DelDOT’s C.R. McLeod says their current practices aren’t as efficient as they could be.
“Let’s say we pave a road and a couple months later we notice that the asphalt is getting really bumpy and it’s failing. Right now, we have to do a lot of forensics with the engineers to go in to see that, for example, maybe there’s something wrong with the mixture. And it’s a pretty time consuming endeavor to figure out what exactly happened and why it is happening,” he said.
Source : DPM
