Encouraging Innovation in Locating and Characterizing Underground Utilities (2009) / Chapter Skim
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4C H A P T E R 1 IntroductionBackground to the Report This report has been prepared as part of a study funded by the second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) , which is in turn funded by Congress to provide a targeted, short-term research program addressing key issues in highway transportation.
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5or increasing the geographic extent of those methods. It can mean changing the timing of methods to obtain better results.
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6earlier -- around 1910 -- providing a more highly developed problem but also the opportunity to be at the forefront of the development of technological and administrative developments that could be used throughout the rest of the world. The length of the total utility network (using the assumptions applied in Table 1.1)
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7Several advances are evident that can make utilities easier to locate -- such as, permanent utility marking systems and field-deployable global positioning system (GPS) -geographical information system (GIS)
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88. The total number of gas services in the United States, according to reference 7, is 63,523,945.
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