Leveraging Digital Transformation for Effective Right-of-Way Management

We’re all familiar with how digital transformation is revolutionizing our industry, but many organizations have yet to recognize the opportunity digitization presents to managing and communicating disruptions to public rights-of-way. Right w, in planning, managing, and reporting on road disruptions, there’s little consistency in procedures among state departments of transportation, local road authorities, and contractors. Operations are typically siloed, administrative delays are common, and inefficiency creates a fractured disruption lifecycle, making right-of-way management extremely challenging. From requesting road space and permitting processes to the approval of traffic activity and public engagement, broken workflows result in significant lost dollars on both sides of the public-private landscape. The current environment is a catalyst for strained cross-sector relationships, a lack of collaboration, poor work zone visibility, increased safety risks, and a deteriorating driver experience. This session will educate attendees that it doesn’t have to be like this. Offering insight from 12 years of experience operating the de-facto work zone and MoT collaboration platform for 350 road agencies, utilities, and contractors in the UK, speakers will discuss their recent experience rolling out a digital Plan Share solution for Florida DOT to transform how work crews, contractors, DOT districts and central agency teams plan, coordinate, and communicate lane and road closures.
At the conclusion of this session participants will be better able to:
• Identify how real-time planning, coordination, and communication tools can transform how their organization manages disruptions to the right-of-way, including between teams, suppliers/supply chain, and drivers via navigation app integrations.
• Evaluate where processes or workflows are fractured within their own organizations and create and apply strategies discussed during the session to address those issues.
• Promote cross-sector or regional collaboration, and develop workflows that reduce the time, effort, and money spent on permit applications, while increasing approval rates.