If necessity is the mother of invention, frustration must be its father. For civil engineer Javier Devesa, a highway construction project manager in Washington, D.C., his frustrations with manually planning and filing lane closure requests with the DOT have inspired him to invent a better way.
The result is Nodum, a software service launched Aug. 12 that is designed to help general contractors optimize lane closures—streamlining planning and minimizing duration. It also is aimed at DOTs to help them accomplish projects with less traffic aggravation, and at the public, to help drivers and logistics managers not only avoid detours and closures, but to see where and when they are planned in the future.
