The development of transportation systems is a wildly evolving topic. Understanding the movements made by vendors of with new technology, transportation agencies, and political bodies is critical to sustaining continual success in your current market.

Over the past decade, we have provided valuable research reports on emergency management, highway asset management, roadway products, and roadway work vehicles to our clients.

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) especially has been a topic of great interest to NEXCO and our clients. With a contemporary, global view of these topics, we provide clients with opinions on their strategic questions. Stay proactive in the developments of transportation technologies and policies as a recipient of our ongoing research efforts.

Feasibility studies and eventual market entry success starts with an understanding of baseline regulations laid out by governing agencies. To smoothly navigate cross-border activity in vastly different political environments, NEXCO serves clients in researching procedural standards in the civil engineering and transportation markets. For example, the standards for repairing pre-stressed concrete bridge members.

Many potentially beneficial startup technologies fail in early stages of their implementation due to legal and regulatory boundaries. In the US, individual States can act almost as individual countries when it comes to the standards that are set for engineering projects. Japanese regulations can be very difficult to understand from an outside perspective.

As an engineering firm that has navigated through the complexities of international regulatory differences in utilizing foreign technology, NEXCO is adept in summarizing what it takes to help you achieve your business goals.

NEXCO originally entered the US market in 2011, and have since studied what it takes for an engineering company to make it in the US. Combining our knowledge of the transportation market, standards of operation, and client analysis, we serve clients from Japan who wish to start their business in the States.

Our introductory services include consultation on strategic matters, logistics, market tendencies, past experience with clients, and basic legal requirements. In addition, we have a team of graphic designers and marketing specialists who can help design your corporate image through your website, handouts, document templates, and other branding materials.

The US is a great, complex mix of cultures, languages, and worldviews. It cannot be easily understood from one single angle. Knowing how to promote your services and products in a diverse way to reach a diverse audience is a necessary element to initial success. Because there is no one guaranteed method for US market entry, allow us to offer the insight you will need to get started.

The integration of visual recordings into modern structural practice is a monumental achievement for the field of civil engineering. By taking pictures with resolution high enough to maintain historical records of surface conditions, we can gain better understandings of life cycle predictions. This works by comparing the visual records from one year to the next, and calculating the total change in crack propagation.

To collect and maintain valid data sets, the data integrity of each scanning procedure must be upheld. Knowledge about lighting conditions, camera settings, shooting angle, photographic image correction all play into the creation of a valid data set.

By capturing visual images, there are many birds killed with a single stone. For example, a visual image set can serve as a reference for an IR data set. At the same time, it can be used for crack detection. Also, it becomes a perfect legal reference for post-construction, as the condition of the structure can be tracked accurately over time since its birth.

In fact, visual imaging kills so many birds with one stone, it would not be practical to list them all here, but hopefully you get the picture (pun intended). Join us to learn how you can make use of this continually developing technology for your inspection work.

NEXCO-West USA provides technical training in the use of NDE technology for structural inspections. Invest in your most valuable resource, human capital, by participating in our two week technical sessions, or our long term job training programs.

By participating in the combined IRT and HD technology course, trainees will get insight on the advantages of using non-direct and rapid scanning methods for structural inspection. They acquire knowledge about our software packages, IrSUITE, JeSUITE, and Kuraves, as well as the various sensors on the market available to them.

Field training takes place with trained instructors at places with known surface and sub-surface deficiencies. Trainees will get first-hand experience in not only finding this data, but capturing it in a way that is conducive to building scaled deficiency maps.