Abstract
Abstract. The heterogeneous character of information models results in communication barriers between subsystems in railway organizations dealing with Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Geographic information systems (GIS). The integration of information is a promising way to bridge the heterogeneity of information models and satisfy the need for a more efficient communication. Integration efforts exploited in expert literature are often referenced using umbrella terms like “BIM-GIS Integration” or “GeoBIM”, although dealing with different challenges and addressing different purposes. This paper highlights the need for a differentiation between integration efforts covered by the umbrella term “BIM-GIS integration”. For this, a new approach for the categorization of information integration efforts was developed based on a literature research. Afterwards, challenges concerning information integration efforts in the field of “BIM-GIS Integration” were exploited and assigned to the respective categories to illustrate the importance of differentiation between heterogeneous information integration efforts.
Highlights
1.1 The need for efficient, lateral communicationOrganizations are highly specialized due to the division of labor (Smith 2010) and the increasing complexity of tasks an individual has to carry out (Bar-Yam 2002)
This paper addresses solely the step problem identification and its communication to provide an understanding of integration efforts concerning the keyword “Building Information Modeling (BIM)-Geographic information systems (GIS) Integration” as basis for the further research investigation
There are two major findings: First, there is the need for a common understanding of the concept information integration referenced by the keyword “BIM-GIS Integration”
Summary
1.1 The need for efficient, lateral communicationOrganizations are highly specialized due to the division of labor (Smith 2010) and the increasing complexity of tasks an individual has to carry out (Bar-Yam 2002). The increasing complexity of the demands of the environment lead to more complex task specifications accompanied by a higher specialization, whereby the demand for intradisciplinary solutions remains present. This need for more efficient, lateral communication runs counter to the communication barriers caused by the heterogeneous character of information models. This kind of communication barriers need to be bridged to unfold synergetic effects between subsystems and satisfy the increasing demands of the environment of organizations
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