| EPSRC Reference: |
EP/C014707/1 |
| Title: |
Mapping the Underworld: Knowledge and Data Integration |
| Principal Investigator: |
Cohn, Professor AG |
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| Department: |
Sch of Computing |
| Organisation: |
University of Leeds |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 July 2005 |
Ends: |
30 June 2009 |
Value (£): |
158,437
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Acoustics |
Construction Ops & Management |
| Ground Engineering |
Information & Knowledge Mgmt |
| Instrumentation Eng. & Dev. |
Pavement Engineering |
| Urban & Land Management |
Water Engineering |
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| Construction |
Environment |
| Transport Systems and Vehicles |
Water |
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Every year, in excess of four million holes are dug in the nation's roads to repair leaks, provide connecting services to new premises and to lay new cables and pipes. Although recently installed assets may have been well mapped, location data on older services can be very poor, in some cases even non existent (except perhaps knowing the location of the terminating points). Some of the holes are unnecessary (dug in the wrong place owing to insufficientor wrong data), some cause third party damage to other underground services (or even first party damage!). More importantly, there are also considerable indirect costs owing to disruption on the roads caused by works, waste, and pollution. This project will investigate the construction of a unified database of all the location data from the various various utilities. Constructing such a unified database will be a challenge owing to the current state of the records, which are frequently innacurate, incomplete and sometimes not available in digital form.
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| Organisation Website: |
http://www.leeds.ac.uk |