ASCE’s new Standard Guideline for Recording and Exchanging Utility Infrastructure Data (the utility “as-installed” standard) is about to roll out. The standard provides a framework for improving management practices of public rights-of-way (ROW), especially considering changes in our midst with regard to electric and autonomous vehicles becoming more prevalent, 5G small cell installation, and smart city/road initiatives. These technologies will be vying for space in an already congested and mostly unknown underground landscape. Currently, the lack of management of our ROWs underground has turned it into a confusing mess. Records are often non-existent or based on relative positions to features no longer present. There is tremendous potential to improve the efficiency and usage of our roadways for the future that is rapidly approaching. The challenges in maximizing the use of ROW for smart roadways and increased infrastructure needs are complex and dynamic. Critical to addressing one challenge is it to understand and manage the facilities that are currently underground and new installations that are taking place every day. Maximizing the value of mapping what’s below the ROW will only come through the use of standards and best practices within organizations that install utilities in the ROW and agencies that manage the ROW. Given the right policies, standards, collaboration, and management practices, today’s technologies can enable us to easily create a real-time 3D picture of buried utilities. During this session, presenters will discuss the new standard, new technologies for collecting utility location data, and provide a live example of what the Montana and Texas DOTs are doing to start to proactively manage their public ROW; especially the utility infrastructure within their ROW.