Research of Automatic Progress Report Generation for Railway Construction Projects in China

Abstract

The rapid construction of railways in China has posed tremendous challenges for managing railway construction projects, especially their progress. Frequently changed schedule, complicated contents, and error-prone data have practically hampered the efforts to automatically generate progress reports on railway construction projects within the country. In this paper, we set out to explore the linkages among current data from Chinese railway construction units on inspection lots, construction drawings, and construction schedules, which are used to establish an engineering quantity computation model and automatic project progress report model. An automatic progress report generation system for railway construction projects was developed to generate a wide range of standard progress reports. Practical applications showed that the proposed system offers an alternative to hardware-based methods of progress report generation and can significantly improve the accuracy of data and the quality of management regarding project progress.