BIM Application Approach on Highway Maintenance and Management

Traditional highway maintenance and management systems treats its own main functions and pays less attention to design, and construction stages. This results in weakening of the whole engineering cycle efficiency. With the rapid development of building information modelling (BIM), there comes a natural application in highway maintenance and management area. This paper presents an approach to rebuilding a highway information model in Autodesk suites and proposes a method to implementing BIM technique to highway maintenance and management. Result shows that a highway BIM model could be rebuilt efficiently and could be used as a tool for highway maintenance and management. In addition, requirements of modeling a highway and essential points to manage the operation of highway on a BIM-based platform are put forward. It could also be concluded that BIM technology will be further used in the whole engineering cycle in highway engineering.