Automated Data Collection for Reservoir Regulation
Various regulation changes in the Lake Winnebago basin have been proposed regarding the protection of wetlands and assurance of adequate outflows for water quality. To implement these...
Real-Time Monitoring and Flood Forecasting in Harris County, Texas
A new automated flood warning system is now serving the 2,700,000 residents of Houston, Harris County, Texas. Real-time rainfall and river level data from more than 90 sensors are automatically...
How to Make Automated Transportation Profitable!
The paper discusses an approach to analyzing why past systems attracted investors. It suggests, first; remember why the auto and truck have captured the bulk of the market. Second; accept...
The H-Bahn, a Fully Automatic People Mover System
The H-Bahn suspended cabin system is the contribution of the Siemens - DUEWAG joint development venture towards solving the problem of economical public transportation. This track-bound...
Encouraging and Controlling Use of Automation
Judicious use of automation can greatly enhance the productivity of an engineering staff. Integration of multiple computing processes with technology such as plotting, digitizing, total...
Automation of Booster Pump Stations
Several techniques have been used to automate booster pump stations for irrigation conveyance systems. These pump stations typically must supply pressurized water for a wide range of flow...
Automated Maintenance at Mendocino Transit
The Mendocino Transit Authority has been using the Fleet Controller, a vehicle maintenance cost control micro-computer program, for nearly a year. This paper describes the set-up and daily...
Portable Micros in Transportation Data Collection
The use of mainframe, mini and microcomputers has become widespread among transportation engineers and planners as a means of improving the comprehensiveness and accuracy of data analysis...
Control of Construction Equipment Processes
Transportation projects have long involved some of the most equipment-intensive field construction operations. They are already benefitting from automation in concrete batch plants, slip-form...
Automated Control and Robotics for Construction
This paper addresses the potential for automated process control and robotics for remote, large-scale field operations such as those on construction engineering projects. Combining selected...
Techniques for Automating the Process of As-Built Reconciliation
The approach utilizes an electronic digital 'ruler' capable of measuring distances to 100 feet with a resolution of 1/100 of a foot. This ruler interfaces to...
Automated Analysis Model Generation
The state of development of the capabilities needed to automatically link the geometric definition of a CAD system to finite element analysis is discussed. Areas considered include fully...
Automated Walking Cycle for Swinging Ladder Dredge
The unique application of a Swinging Ladder Dredge to perform maintenance dredging in the cooling canal system of the Turkey Point Power Plant demanded the design of a semi-automated dredge...
Dredge Automation: The State-of-the-Art
Automated control systems are being developed and applied to enhance the productivity and cost-effectiveness of dredges. Referring particularly to hydraulic type dredging plants, the functions...
A New Laser Range/Azimuth Position Fixing System
The ATLAS POLARFIX is an entirely new dynamic position-fixing system for short-range, large scale surveys. It is a range/azimuth laser-based system using only a single shore-based tracking...
Standard Hydrologic Exchange Format (SHEF) for Automated Data Transmission
The Standard Hydrologic Exchange Format (SHEF) is a standardized system of encoding data transmissions for both manual and automated processing. SHEF features include (a) readability by...
The Night the Computer Stole the Engineer's Brain
The computer was supposed to be the engineer's servant. But somehow he'd become the robot-like slave of the computer, doing little more than feeding in input...
CE Computing Basics: Highway Vertical Profile Program
A program is explained step-by-step which can reduce the computation time involved in writing a highway vertical profile computation program. The program is written in BASIC. Once the...
Surveying Takes Another Giant Step Forward
The introduction of short-range electronic distance measurement in 1971 revolutionized surveying. Thousands of surveying and engineering firms across the U.S. today routinely use EDM for...
Automated Hydrography for Channel Dredging
After studying both non-line of sight and microwave systems of over-water distance measurement, one of the latter was selected for checking dredged channel depth on the Delaware River....
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