Applying Building Information Modeling to Road Pavements Management

An efficient transport infrastructure system is essential for the social and economic development of a territory. It has become clear that the demographic increase and changes in the habits of the populations should be supported by a development of transport systems, often inadequate to the growing demand for mobility. Therefore, it was necessary to use technologies that would allow the design, management and monitoring of transport structures in an effective manner to ensure adequate levels of service and safety. In more recent times, this need has led to the development of new methodologies as Building Information Modeling (BIM), which is decisively influencing the construction sector, allowing for better results from an economic, management and performance point of view. The digitization of civil manufactures has changed the approach to design and in particular the use of BIM for infra-structures has led to changes of an instrumental nature in the processes related to all phases of design and construction. This paper presents a new BIM procedure to support the management phases of a road infrastructure. It has been defined an informative model which can interface the three-dimensional model of a road pavement with a set of information related to monitoring activities.