Overview of Data Management Technology for Transportation Infrastructure based on BIM

The application of BIM (Building Information Modeling) technology in the field of transportation infrastructure digitization is the current development trend. However, the practical implementation of BIM in transportation infrastructure faces challenges such as inconsistent data standards, low information transfer efficiency, and fragmented information across different life cycles. This paper summarizes the current status and hot spots of BIM data management research through an in-depth literature review, analyzes the problems and shortcomings of existing different forms of BIM data management technology, and a prospect for its future development was proposed in the discussion. The study shows that the file-based BIM data management solutions can hardly meet the BIM data access requests of today’s transportation infrastructure conveniently, securely, and efficiently, and the management solutions based on a single type of database can hardly have good performance while compatible with BIM data of multiple structures due to the heterogeneity of data sources. Therefore, future BIM data management must be based on unified data standards (such as Industry Foundation Classes), combined with NewSql-related technologies to achieve high-performance and highly scalable BIM data management to share and exchange data more conveniently and efficiently.