Data Collection Challenges/Data Value/Data linkages (3 Levels: Capital, Project, and Asset Levels)

This session investigates costs and challenges associated with collecting transportation asset data, and data processing techniques to maximize the return on investment in data collection. The speakers explain how transportation agencies can extract the most value out of their data and reduce data collection costs by linking available big databases, managing and maintaining existing data, and improving data collection and QA/QC methodologies. 

Moderator(s): Salar Zabihi, Wallace Montgomery & Associates    

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• Matt Haubrich, Transportation Asset Management Administrator, Iowa Department of Transportation

How Innovation, Integration, and Investment Impacts MnDOT Asset Data

• Trisha Stefanski, Statewide Asset Management Engineer, Minnesota Department of Transportation

Latest Trends in Data Collection and Processing Technologies and Available Technology Transfer Avenues for Transportation Asset Management

• Nima Kargah-Ostadi, PhD, P.E., VP of Research, Callentis Consulting Group 

Bios

Matt Haubrich is the Transportation Asset Management Administrator at the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT). Haubrich currently serves as the Chair of the AASHTO Subcommittee on Asset Management, and is the AASHTO representative to FHWA’s Transportation Asset Management Expert Task Group (TAM ETG). He chairs the Implementation Subcommittee of the TRB Asset Management Committee (AJE30) and is a member of the Transportation Visualization Committee (AED80). Haubrich has been involved in numerous national conference planning committees and NCHRP panels, and is the US representative to the PIARC Technical Committee on Asset Management. Haubrich’s Bachelor of Science was in statistics, and he has earned master’s degrees in both business administration and business analytics. He has been with the Iowa DOT since 2010.

Trisha Stefanski is the Statewide Asset Management Engineer at the Minnesota Department of Transportation. She works in both Metro District Maintenance and the Asset Management Program Office, developing asset management practices that work to improve and enhance the delivery and cost effectiveness of services and systems at MnDOT. Nationally she is a member of TRB AJE30 Transportation Asset Management Committee and AKT70 Maintenance Management System Committee. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of North Dakota and a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota. She has more than 15 years of Professional Engineering experience in both the private and public sectors.       

Nima Kargah-Ostadi has more than 10 years of experience in transportation infrastructure asset management, applied statistics, data science, machine learning, and evolutionary computation. He has collaborated with FHWA and multiple State highway agencies in integrating the latest proven research in practice to improve their data-driven decision processes. He is a Member of the ASCE Highway Pavements Committee and the TRB Standing Committee on Pavement Management Systems. He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering and a doctoral minor in Computational Science from Penn State University. He is a registered Professional Engineer and a certified Project Management Professional.