The Year in Infrastructure 2008 - (Page 71) InnovatIon In MIlItary InstallatIons, CaMpuses, and aIrports City of Chicago O’Hare Modernization Program Chicago, Illinois, United States Delays at chicago’s O’Hare Airport impact the national Aviation System, inconveniencing air travelers and economically impacting the airlines that operate at the airport. The O’Hare Modernization Program is Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley’s plan to reconfigure outdated intersecting runways into a modern parallel runway configuration. The O’Hare Modernization Program includes constructing a new runway, relocating and extending existing runways, and a creating a terminal and gate facility on the west side of the airport. The program will reduce delays from an average of 24 minutes per flight to less than six minutes per flight. The improvements will save air passengers and the airlines $750 million a year in reduced delays, create 195,000 jobs, and generate an additional $18 billion in economic activity annually. Project challenges include an aggressive implementation schedule; coordination with multiple federal, state, and local agencies; and building one of the largest construction projects in the country at one of the world’s busiest airports, all without impacting existing airport operations. With more than 40,000 MicroStation design files to date, ProjectWise has streamlined the coordination of design information among consultants working on interdependent projects, maintained control over base data, and organized file management for projects without limiting access to project teams. FinALiSt ALSO NOMINATED IN SpEcIAL cATEgOry: cONNEcTINg prOjEcT TEAMS SpEc EcIAL cATE cONNE p OjE TEAMS jEc Parsons Brinckerhoff SR75/282 Transportation Corridor Project Coronado, California, United States the Sr75/282 transportation corridor Project will relieve regional traffic congestion that occurs within Coronado, Calif., between the San Diego Coronado Bridge and the Naval Air Station North Island (NASNI) entrance. The preferred alternative must take traffic safely to the main entrance and entry control facility for NASNI and the western terminus of the project. The corridor encompasses two of the most traveled streets in San Diego County, accommodating between 80,000 and 90,000 trips every weekday. Increasing commuter, cross-town, and internally generated traffic have overwhelmed the capacity of the corridor, leading to congestion and safety problems between the bridge and NASNI and on parallel and crossing arterials and local streets. Effective resolution of the bridge-to-NASNI traffic congestion is vital for resolving other traffic challenges in Coronado. Using Bentley products enabled the project team to develop and share information internally for improved coordination and efficiency. Bentley Descartes provided the ability to overlay aerial images on the designs. MicroStation with a Google plug-in created a KML-file format that enabled the draping of the design within Google Earth. The exhibits these tools created allowed the project team to illustrate the identified design alternatives to stakeholders and eliminate challenges to the progress of the project. THE YEAR IN INFRASTRUCTURE 2008 FinALiSt ALSO NOMINATED IN SpEcIAL cATEgOry: SuSTAININg Our SOcIETy SpEc EcIAL cATE Su c cIET 71
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