ABSTRACT

Connectivity refers to the ability of civil engineering system components to transmit/receive data for making strategic, tactical and operational decisions towards enhanced efficiency, effectiveness, and lower costs to the system stakeholders. Automation is the capability of a system or its component to carry out control functions or decisions that are traditionally done by humans. As the benefits of these two technologies become increasingly apparent in various civil engineering disciplines, it seems useful to measure such impacts to generate information for evaluating the feasibility of past or prospective future applications related to connectivity and automation (C/A) or for comparing alternative C/A applications. This paper discusses some constructs for measuring the benefits or effectiveness (MOEs) of C/A applications. An MOE expressed in terms of an appropriate system performance indicator (SPI) can help ascertain the extent to which a C/A application has accomplished or is expected to accomplish its specified goals or to compare the efficacy of alternative C/A applications. This paper identifies a number of SPIs, and establishes a number of MOEs for measuring the effectiveness of C/A applications in terms of the relevant SPIs. The paper provides illustrations to the concepts discussed in the context of highway transport.

摘要

连接性是指土木工程系统组件传输/接收数据以制定战略、战术和运营决策的能力，以提高效率、有效性和降低系统利益相关者的成本。自动化是系统或其组件执行传统上由人类完成的控制功能或决策的能力。随着这两种技术的好处在各种土木工程学科中变得越来越明显，衡量这些影响以生成信息以评估与连接和自动化 (C/A) 相关的过去或未来应用的可行性或比较替代方案似乎很有用C/A 应用程序。本文讨论了一些用于衡量 C/A 应用程序的收益或有效性 (MOE) 的结构。以适当的系统性能指标 (SPI) 表示的 MOE 可以帮助确定 C/A 应用程序已完成或预期完成其指定目标的程度，或比较替代 C/A 应用程序的功效。本文确定了一些 SPI，并建立了一些 MOE，用于根据相关 SPI 衡量 C/A 应用程序的有效性。本文对在公路运输背景下讨论的概念进行了说明。并建立多个 MOE，以衡量 C/A 应用在相关 SPI 方面的有效性。本文对在公路运输背景下讨论的概念进行了说明。并建立多个 MOE，以衡量 C/A 应用在相关 SPI 方面的有效性。本文对在公路运输背景下讨论的概念进行了说明。