Infrastructure Digitalization: Information Models, Smart Sensing and New Technologies towards a Digital Infrastructure

Dear Colleagues,

During the last decade, remote sensing technologies such as laser scanners and satellites have been used to develop infrastructure-related applications from 3D point clouds and 2D imagery. Geometric and semantic information can be automatically extracted, saving costs in intensive tasks such as infrastructure inspection and inventory, and improving decision making in terms of the structural health assessment and maintenance management.

IOCI 2022, in its digitalization session, will promote contributions reaching beyond using infrastructure data (typically remotely sensed) to develop new methodologies and applications in the context of a digital, accessible and interoperable transportation infrastructure.

With a special focus on road and railway infrastructure, this Special Issue aims to collect new knowledge on the following main aspects:

• Digital twins for infrastructure digitalization; this aspect covers:
  • The 3D parametrization and modelling of linear infrastructures and their assets, covering different combinations of geometry and information levels.
  • Efficient and user-friendly visualizations of sensed infrastructure feeding the digital twin with real-time data.
  • Usage of digital engines to develop digital twins and their exploitation for infrastructure-related simulations. Gamification and applications with a focus on final user engagement.
• Sensing and actuation technologies for infrastructure health monitoring.
• Infrastructure diagnostic and prognostics: predictive models.
• Model definition and updating: special focus on the interoperability and the standardization of the infrastructure models.
• Infrastructure safety assurance.

Dr. Mario Soilán
Dr. Ana Sánchez-Rodríguez
Guest Editors

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• infrastructure digitalization
• digital twins
• remote sensing of the infrastructure
• structural health monitoring
• smart infrastructure inspection and maintenance