Legal Issues Surrounding the Use of Digital Intellectual Property on Design and Construction Projects. Legal Research Digest 58.

摘要

State highway departments and transportation agencies have a continuing need to keep abreast of operating practices and legal elements of specific problems in highway law. This report continues NCHRP's practice of keeping departments up-to-date on laws that will affect their operations. The development of building information models (BIM) on construction projects has increased over the past decade, and use of BIM on highways, bridges, and complex interchanges is on the rise. Some of the beneficial uses of BIM on transportation design and construction projects include acting as a repository for project information, comparing various scenarios, evaluating impacts of changes on budgets and schedules, visualizing complex geometry, considering environmental impacts of various design options, and more.