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63 Data Storage, Maintenance, and Access The nature of airport pavement condition data is evolving from hard copy reports, data tables, and printed graphics to data that are both generated and accessed via digital means. In the era of hard copy reports, the biggest challenge might have been locating a report on a bookshelf or in an organization's archives.
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64 Guidelines for Collecting, Applying, and Maintaining Pavement Condition Data at Airports information detailed below, including various considerations that airports can take into account when deciding how and where to store pavement data. Regardless of the method of storage, it is important to remember that technology can be quickly outdated.
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Data Storage, Maintenance, and Access 65 types of pavement condition data for a sample network of 4,000,000 ft2 of pavement. This shows that file sizes for data generated by older, established technologies (e.g., PAVER, FWD)
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66 Guidelines for Collecting, Applying, and Maintaining Pavement Condition Data at Airports accurate and timely edits may need to be made to the current dataset and a process should be established to manage the access to data. One benefit to external data storage is that it eliminates the agency's responsibility to maintain datasets.
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Data Storage, Maintenance, and Access 67 SaaS offerings may be a good option for storing pavement data, depending on the software functionality, the agency's needs, and the speed and robustness of its internet connection. The advantage of SaaS over cloud-based data storage is that it provides additional functionality, such as the option to view the data, maintain the data, and share the information with others within and outside of the organization.
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68 Guidelines for Collecting, Applying, and Maintaining Pavement Condition Data at Airports A larger problem is that each dataset collected may not be compatible with other data. For example, network-level pavement condition data, project-level deflection and coring data, and records of maintenance repairs may not be viewable on the same platform.
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Data Storage, Maintenance, and Access 69 Source: United States Geological Survey Figure 32. Vector and raster data in GIS layers.
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70 Guidelines for Collecting, Applying, and Maintaining Pavement Condition Data at Airports its revenue through better management of its revenue-generating spaces, and enhancing safety by keeping better track of its critical airside assets. Pavements are one such asset.
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Data Storage, Maintenance, and Access 71 • Data update cycles, • Access considerations, and • Security considerations. An effort should be made to work in either non-proprietary or industry standard data formats.
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Table 16. Summary of data storage characteristics.
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D at a St or ag e C on si de ra tio ns an d G en er al R ec om m en da tio ns Capital and Maintenance Budgets Requires an annual capital budget and maintenance budget as needed to store/manage data, and equipment can become obsolete or out of date more quickly, requiring upgrades. - Requires no capital budget and an annual maintenance budget with periodic cost increases to maintain or store data with little risk of obsolete equipment.
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