METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROTECTING UNDERGROUND UTILITIES FROM EXCAVATION DAMAGE BY ASSESSING RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH LOCATE REQUEST TICKETS
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May 8, 2017
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Jun 25, 2009
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Methods and apparatus for protecting underground utilities from accidental excavation damage by assessing risk associated with a locate and/or marking operation to detect and/or mark a presence or absence of underground utilities in an excavation area. A locate request ticket generated by a one-call center and describing a locate and/or marking operation is electronically parsed to extract ticket information, and the extracted ticket information is rendered in a standardized computer-readable format (e.g., XML or other standardized format that may be processed by various software components). Historical damage reports for underground facility infrastructure, and/or historical records of previously completed locate request tickets, are retrieved based on the formatted extracted ticket information. A statistical analysis of the historical information is performed to assign a risk designation to the locate request ticket, which facilitates clearing the locate request ticket and/or dispatching a locate technician to perform the locate and/or marking operation.
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