Tracking and forecasting performance of earthmoving operations using GPS data

CME 2007 Conference - Construction Management and Economics: 'Past, Present and Future'

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1377-1388

  Alshibani, Adel ^a   Moselhi, Osama ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive; Cost; Earthworks; Equipment; Forecasting

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE; EARTHMOVING OPERATIONS; EARTHWORKS; LABOUR-INTENSIVE; MONITORING PROCESS; PROTOTYPE SOFTWARE; SPATIAL TECHNOLOGIES; TRACKING AND FORECASTING;

BUDGET CONTROL; CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; COSTS; DATA ACQUISITION; EARTHMOVING MACHINERY; EQUIPMENT; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84877636829     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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