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Automated Data and Feature Extraction from Bridge Plans (NCHRP IDEA 20-30/258)

Project Details
STATUS

In-Progress

PROJECT NUMBER

NCHRP IDEA 20-30/258

START DATE

01/01/25

END DATE

12/31/26

FOCUS AREAS

Infrastructure

RESEARCH CENTERS InTrans, BEC
SPONSORS

NCHRP Highway Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) program

Researchers
Principal Investigator
Behrouz Shafei

Structural Engineer, BEC

About the research

Work in Stage 1 of this research focused on developing the software features required to automatically identify, categorize, and report the engineering details that often need to be extracted from bridge plan sets. The extracted information was from drawings, tables, and text blocks. Now, in Stage 2, work will include extensive testing, assessment, and quality control of the developed software using a variety of bridge plan sets provided by the Iowa, Minnesota, and California departments of transportation (DOTs). This will help achieve a software that will be both robust and reliable.

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