RIMS Forum - 20 March 2013 Ken Mitchell - Opus Innovation Award Finalist

1. RIMS Conference 2013
Innovation Awards
Putting dTIMS outputs in front of Asset
Managers:
Improved accessibility in favourite format
Presenter:
Ken Mitchell
Opus International Consultants - Napier
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2. The Challenge…
 Traditionally dTIMS outputs have been difficult to
translate back to the roading network at a project
level.
 How to provide accessible treatment forecasts
 GIS outputs are developing but a simple
accessible output was required to indicate where
optimised decision making could make a difference
in Road Network Asset Management
 How could we do it better?
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3. The Situation…
 Traditionally dTIMS outputs have focussed on
network level outputs and summaries
− Reseal /Rehab/AC 10 year averages
− Condition trends : e.g.: PCI, SCI, Roughness etc.
− Investment patterns linked to FWP/Trigger and
optimised treatment forecasts
 Translating this back to the project level of the
network the analysis was performed on has been
limited.
 What could we do?
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4. The solution - Iteration 1
 Extract dTIMS budget scenario treatment forecast outputs and
work on more accessible formats for the analysis results.
 Trial an excel format that Asset Managers easily access and use to
and see results at a treatment length level. Not Rocket Science
 V1: Basic sorted excel sheet, some conditional colour
 V2: A slightly smarter version with more filtering, summary network length
“..engineers love excel…..” Anon
 Intention: Keep it simple and accessible.
 Client: Wairoa District Council
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5. The solution - Iteration 1 v1
-Simple searchable, sorted, colour coded excel.
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6. The solution - Iteration 1 v2
-filtered, sorted, colour coded, summarised excel.
Clients: Wairoa DC and Wellington CC
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7. The solution - Iteration 2
 Use Excel and conditional colour for PCI (Pavement Condition
Index) condition comparison between budget scenarios.
 Intent:
 Show the difference between the current non-optimised FWP
and the investment limited optimised treatment forecast.
 Make it easy to see relative differences in condition (Green is
good, Red is Bad)
 Client: Wairoa District Council
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8. Iteration 2a: PCI Rainbows
Conditional Formatting, Sorting, Stats Highlight
Not Pretty, But you see the difference
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9. The solution - Iteration 3
 Use Excel Pivot tables to allow asset
managers to drill down into
summarised treatment and
investment forecasts to Road,
Treatment length, Hierarchy level
 Issue: You need a certain level of
excel knowledge to be comfortable
using these?
 Client:
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10. Iteration 3: Pivot tables:
filtered, annual summary, easy search
 This is not very difficult to achieve and simple to use once you
know how…
 allows rapid drilldown and summarisation
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11. Iteration 2-3: Putting it on a Map
dTIMS output to RAMM GIS
 Wellington City has taken the data a step further and created a
RAMM user defined table (UDT) based on these model outputs
 In UDT form it is viewable as a layer in RAMM GIS.
 Putting the data in a spatial format will be native in dTIMS v9 but
that is still a bit further down the track for NZ
 RAMM GIS is evolving and you need to keep and eye on the
releases. Look for it on your RAMM Apps page.
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12. Taking it a step further:
 Kirsten Brown, WCC Asset Data Analyst
 “I created the UDT to help identify roads/sections for our reseals
programme. The initial list comprises all roads that have at least one
section recommended by TSA or dTIMS for the next year, excluding
those with reseal jobs on them in the current year.
 The engineers visit each road to choose which roads/sections to reseal.
The TSA and job data is in RAMM as well as all the other data the
engineers require (seal age, length, type, carriageway hierarchy,
footpath and kerb & channel condition).
 By adding the dTIMS data I was able to write a single RAMM SQL that
identified the roads to check and produced a results set with all the
required data in it.”
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13. WCC RAMM GIS Layer
Yellow =
Reseal, Pink =
AC
Normal RAMM
filtering
Filtering changes
display
transparency
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14. RAMM GIS Layer View with Filter
• Contextual data can also be displayed.
• Layers from other sources also able to be
displayed
• Comes with your RAMM database
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15. Summary: Keep it Simple & Effective
 Target turning data into  Thanks to
usable information  Wairoa District Council
 Look at what you can do and  Wellington City Council
try and keep it simple where
possible.
 Use tools that people can
tolerate easily if required
 Build on what works and
adapt as new tools develop
and people want more.
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16. Thank You
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