QuickChat: How Digital Technology Delivers Transformative Infrastructure Projects

Dec. 4, 2024
Learn how cutting-edge digital transformation is reshaping transportation infrastructure and tackling the industry's biggest challenges.

In this QuickChat, Gavin Jenkins, senior managing editor of Roads and Bridges, interviews Bill Panos, senior director of transportation at Bentley Systems. The discussion focuses on digital transformation in transportation and how technology in infrastructure projects improves safety, mobility, and project delivery. Panos shares his extensive background in the public sector, having led the Departments of Transportation in North Dakota and Wyoming.

Panos explains that transportation agencies have long embraced technology, but the combination of computing power, sensing, and algorithms is now pushing the sector into a new era. Bentley Systems transportation solutions help both public and private sectors identify and implement the right technologies to enhance efficiency and sustainability. He also addresses challenges in digital transportation innovation, including how to determine where technology adds value and how to effectively apply it to specific projects while managing complexity.

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