BIM adoption and implementation in the civil and transportation infrastructure sector: analysis of governmental roadmaps and action plans

The adoption of Building Information Modeling (BIM) is accelerating in the global transportation and civil infrastructure sector. This research aims to identify and prioritize essential strategic actions proposed by public agencies for successful BIM deployment within this sector. The results can guide organizations in developing strategic documents based on an in-depth analysis of governmental roadmaps for BIM adoption and implementation. A four-staged content analysis approach–data collection, processing, analysis, and synthesis–was used to identify common actions supporting BIM adoption. A corpus of BIM adoption or digital transformation roadmaps in transportation and civil infrastructure was compiled. Based on the analysis of 20 documents, 640 actions were identified, rationalized and categorized into six key areas: 1/Management and coordination, 2/Mobilizing and developing skills, 3/Policies, contracts & legislation, 4/Processes, methods & workflows, 5/Documentation and standardization, 6/Digital ecosystem. Each action was further categorized into 19 sub-categories, highlighting key actions areas for BIM adoption in the sector as well as global trends around specific types of actions undertaken. This research is one of few efforts to map and analyze government roadmaps for BIM implementation, emphasizing the specific actions required to achieve this goal.