e-Ticketing:
The Digital Road Ahead
Matthew Valle
VP Industry Relations, HaulHub | Public Engagement Lead, National Construction Materials e-Ticketing Task Force
CalAPA “Tech Tune Up” Educational Workshop Orange County
5 April 2022

Once a Leader in Innovation,
Construction Is Now a Distant Follower
Source: Stanford University
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Land assembly and
automation for scale
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Advances
Entirely new concepts of flow
Modularized and
standardized designs
Aggressively automated to
increase production
Utilized scale advantages
and cutting-edge logistics to
provide affordable goods to
the masses
Limited improvements in
technological capabilities,
production methods,
and scale
Construction Has Some Catching Up to Do

The Journey to Digitize Construction is Long and Hard

Quickly Growing Ecosystem of Solutions

Federal Support for Digital Delivery
● Bipartisan Infrastructure
Law- H.R. 3684

BIM for Infrastructure

Current EDC Round
43+ State DOTs Moving ahead with e-Ticketing as an
initiative in 2021
● THE most adopted EDC Initiatives EVER
● Everybody agrees, paper is a real pain
Immediate value in:
● Transparency Across Stakeholders
● Risk Reduction from Engineers Moving Around
Construction Operations to Collect Paper Slips
● Data standardization to build future e-Construction
efforts

Industry Rally for Practical e-Ticketing
●Source NAPA Annual Business Meeting Presentation, Scottsdale, AZ 23 Jan 2022
Digital Construction is defined as
commercially proven digital technologies and
processes for management of construction
and engineering activities, including systems
for infrastructure project procurement,
planning and coordination, construction,
digital as-builts, e-Ticketing, operations and
maintenance, modernization and
management, asset management systems
for machines, site equipment, and personnel.

What Exactly is an e-Ticket?
● From FHWA’s website:
Providing all stakeholders with an electronic means to produce, transmit,
and share materials data and track and verify materials deliveries enhances
safety, streamlines inspections, and improves contract administration
processing. Using electronic ticket exchanges enables access via mobile
devices and simplifies handling and integration of material data into
construction management systems for acceptance, payment, and source
documentation.

What an e-Ticket Isn’t?

As an Industry, We’ve Been Here Before…
• Electronic Bidding Now the Norm
• Needed to Change Mindset and Perceptions
• It’ll be hard
• We don’t have the software or hardware
• Our competitors will see our bids
• We can’t teach our estimators how to do
this, they’ve done it the same way for
too long
• Most States now thriving with electronic
bidding and the benefits it brings

Construction Materials Undergoing a Similar Process…
Look Familiar???

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For Producers with IT Resources not Using HaulHub
Asphalt
Plant 1
Asphalt
Plant 2
Asphalt
Plant n
Ready-mix
Plant 1
Ready-mix
Plant 2
Ready-mix
Plant n
Quarry 1 Quarry 2 Quarry n
e-Ticket
PORTAL
Consolidated
Asphalt Point
of Sale Data
Consolidated
Ready-mix
Point of Sale
Data
Consolidated
Aggregate
Point of Sale
Data Contractor Aggregate
e-Ticketing Vendor
Contractor Ready-mix
e-Ticketing Vendor
Contractor Asphalt e-
Ticketing Vendor
Applying Ingenuity to “Solve” e-Ticketing
• Silicon Valley Doesn’t
Necessarily Understand
Construction
• The best ideas on how to do
this come from innovative
contractors, producers, and
owners
• Everyone in this room has a
voice and can help shape the
future of construction
• The landscape a connected
construction is rapidly changing

States Are Moving Rapidly

DelDOT Took the Bull by the Horns
Industry Partnering
• Keep it Simple
• Weekly Tactical Discussions
• Connection Options by Sophistication

Happening in Indiana…
Project Overview:
• Project Owner: Indiana DOT
• General Contractor: Phend & Brown
• Completion Date: May 2023
• Amount: $21.2 M
• Project Scope: 13.7 Mile asphalt resurfacing and bridge
replacement on US 30 in Kosciusko County Indiana

Collaboration between producers, contractors, public agencies and technology vendors is paramount
for success
INDOT’s e-Ticketing Portal
Ready-Mix Producer for US 30 Project
GC and Asphalt Producer
GC’s e-Ticketing and TMS Provider
Ready-mix producer’s telematics and
e-Ticketing Provider
A Collaborative Effort

Happening in Vermont…
Project Overview:
• Project Owner: Vermont Agency of Transportation
• General Contractor: Pike Industries
• Completion Date: Fall 2022
• Amount: $19.1 M
• Project Scope: Resurface VT 113 in Chelsea, Vershire, West Fairlee and
Thetford, beginning at the VT 110/113 intersection and extending easterly
14.824 miles to the intersection of VT 113/244
The Challenges and Lessons Learned:
Rural Vermont with Limited to No Cell Coverage
Looked at various connectivity solutions
• WiFi hotspots along corridor
• Starlink
Solution to provide hybrid solution to sync field info
to cloud

It Makes Business Sense in California
• One of the last Part of Granite’s Process
not Digital
• Initial Pandemic Push
• 700k Ton Sacramento Project
• 8x8 room with 4’ high stack

Keys to Success
• Keep it Simple
• Collaborate (Owners, Contractors, Suppliers, Technology Partners)
• Iterate and Innovate
• 2-Way Street

Unlocking the Data
There is a lot of Value to Private Sector:
- Field crews can see live loads off the scale (Paving guys LOVE THIS)
- Real Time Yield Check
- Project Managers can track materials for estimates w/o tracking down paper slips
The Value to you:
-You’re are now easier to do business with
-Streamline payments
- Reduced Administrative burden
- Keeping Folks out of Harms Way
- Tap into insights never before available
Photo's courtesy MassDOT and Alabama DOT

The Coming Challenge
• 41% of the Workforce set to retire in the next decade
• New Graduates looking to tech companies
• Fortunately, STEM in high school provides a great foundation for
success in the era of high-tech construction

Getting Going

WHAT’S AHEAD IN 2022?
Caltrans is moving towards an all-electronic ticketing program which will eliminate paper tickets associated with Hot Mix Asphalt to eventually include Aggregate and Ready-Mix
tickets. As the construction industry seeks innovative ways to enhance productivity, reduce environmental impacts and become safer, we look forward to working with our trusted
contractors and supplier/producers to facilitate the digital transformation of the industry.
Caltrans e-Ticketing Factsheet
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR CALTRANS CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL SUPPLIERS?
We are offering the following three options to help make this transition as seamless as possible*:
For Producers with existing e-Ticketing Solutions
corey.casey@dot.ca.gov (209) 607-8789
Producers will POST data to an API with an authorized user key. HaulHub will publish technical documentation for your use.
For Producers with Internal IT Resources
Option 1
Option 2
Option 3 For Producers with Limited to No IT Resources and no e-Ticketing Solution
Your current e-ticketing vendor will POST data to an API similar to the one above
Caltrans have secured basic IT services to get your operations up and running at no cost to you. One software license per Supplier/Producer will be
provided. This assumes that your ticket data is centrally located in one database. If your plant systems are not consolidated into one central database,
you might require additional IT services.*
For More Information Contact:
*Disclaimer: Producer/Supplier assumes all costs associated with modernizing their systems to
meet this requirement beyond what is outlined in option 3.

Currently Connected Producers
• Teichert
• Granite (All Regions)
• Graniterock
• George Reed
• Matich Corporation
• Griffith Company
• Bowman Asphalt
• Knife River

How to Get Going
● Available on all Caltrans projects
● Draft Change Order to include e-ticketing on
contract
● Notify Contractor of desire to use e–ticketing
● For more information visit:
• www.haulhub.com/cal-trans2021/

Task Force Leadership

Getting Involved & Learning More
e-TicketingTaskForce.org

e-Ticketing Change Order Memo