GIS for Transportation Infrastructure Management
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The document discusses the role of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in managing transportation infrastructure by enhancing decision-making through visualization of assets and data integration. It emphasizes GIS's ability to streamline the planning, design, construction, and maintenance phases of transportation projects, improving operational efficiency and safety. Furthermore, the document highlights how GIS can facilitate better communication among stakeholders, support environmental considerations, and aid in rights-of-way management.
GIS for Transportation Infrastructure Management
- 1. GIS for Transportation Infrastructure Management
- 2. GIS for Transportation Infrastructure Management Being able to visualize your assets and the surrounding environment when you build, upgrade, or repair transportation infrastructure helps you prioritize your work and make the right decisions. A geographic information system (GIS) software platform will allow you to do all this and much more. With Esri’s GIS technology, you can build dynamic and rich mapping applications that will keep everyone—from the project team and government officials to field staff and the public—in the know. Maintain transportation infrastructure data from disparate systems and varying organizations with GIS. What Is GIS? GIS integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information. GIS technology allows you to view, query, and understand data in many ways. You’ll see relationships, patterns, and trends in the form of GIS-based maps, reports, and charts. GIS helps you answer questions and solve problems. When viewed in the context of geography, your data is quickly understood and easily shared. GIS technology can be integrated into any enterprise information system framework.
- 3. GIS—The Complete Platform Esri’s GIS technology integrates with project management software, financial and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, and leading-edge maintenance and work order management programs to enhance productivity and help solve complex problems for your organization. The integration of project management software, project financials, and GIS provides a powerful way to manage the delivery of major infrastructure projects. GIS can provide a single point of entry for all transportation-related documents and files. GIS Supports the Transportation Infrastructure Life Cycle Environmental Throughout the transportation infrastructure Management life cycle, Esri’s GIS technology helps you Design Construction create a seamless flow of information from one stage to the next. With GIS, information from your planning process can be brought Asset and Planning into the design process and easily carried over Maintenance Transportation into other areas such as as-built drawings, Management Infrastructure operations, and maintenance. Gains in both Life Cycle employee productivity and transportation Operations system performance are made possible by Rights-of-Way Management the unique ability of GIS to integrate with a wide variety of technologies. Transportation Security organizations benefit by making use of Safety Management the resultant information throughout their enterprise for better decision making.
- 4. Transportation Infrastructure Life Cycle Paired with capital investment prioritization models, GIS can help transportation planners determine the best mix of new projects and maintenance activities to most cost-effectively meet future demands and maintain their infrastructure. Planning Transportation agencies face an enormous challenge in keeping their infrastructure operating smoothly and efficiently. The world’s leading travel demand forecasting packages are integrated with GIS technology, helping transportation professionals conduct the complex analyses GIS is the commonly accepted framework for georeferencing CAD data. required to plan the transportation systems of the future. Increasingly, transportation planners are integrating land-use, environmental, and Design greenhouse gas considerations, along with energy consumption factors, into their planning Transportation engineers are discovering the advantages processes. In doing so, they have discovered that of integrating GIS into their design processes. By bringing GIS can bring all these factors together in the type imagery, elevation, and environmental information into the of comprehensive planning models that will be CAD environment, engineers can continue working with familiar required to help effectively plan the future. software while gaining access to important GIS data. Design files can be brought into a GIS and linked to financial software for better labor and materials and total project cost estimation. With these types of capabilities, GIS is an essential component of the engineering information systems of the future.
- 5. Environmental Management Transportation infrastructure management requires careful consideration of the environment. GIS is uniquely capable of assisting transportation professionals in understanding these issues and selecting the most environmentally sensitive solutions. With GIS, you can understand the impact of land-use decisions and evaluate smart-growth alternatives. GIS integrates environmental factors with land-use, housing, and employment density analysis to help communities address growth issues. The ability to visualize alternatives on a common platform allows parties that differ to reach a consensus when dealing with environmentally sensitive matters. GIS can be used to develop complex, multicriteria models to help define an optimal transportation alignment, accounting for soils, slope, and other environmental constraints. Construction Management When integrated with construction management and financial software, GIS can help track the performance of one or multiple infrastructure projects. GIS makes a wealth of information, such as schedules, estimates, and contracts, easily available from a spatial interface. For project tracking, GIS can help organize all relevant information, from survey data, soils, and geotechnical studies to planning, environmental studies, and engineering drawings. Having quick and easy access to data during construction can greatly increase efficiency and reduce time spent searching for needed information. This type of project transparency and reduced risk can GIS makes crucial information easily available to project staff using a browser interface. lead to a greater return on investment.
- 6. Transportation Infrastructure Life Cycle Operations The demand for operational efficiency and increased safety in modern transportation systems requires access to detailed and real-time information. GIS provides management solutions that integrate data from all aspects of your operations. GIS can track and analyze assets over space and time and provide insight through visualization of information via maps and easy-to-understand reports. GIS gives you the ability to integrate disparate information sources into a common operational picture of all your facilities and transportation systems, with greater power to control your operations and positively impact your bottom line. Aerial and digital photographs, surveys, and satellite imagery can be stored and combined with GIS to provide a comprehensive asset and maintenance management solution. Security Management Comprehensive transportation facility protection requires Asset and Maintenance the cooperation and close coordination of various Management agencies and the integration of different technologies and information sources. GIS integrates multiple sources GIS integrates asset mapping with project management of information, displays them on a map or satellite image, and budgeting tools so that construction and maintenance and delivers the resultant situational awareness on a expenses can be accounted for and centrally managed. secure network. You can combine real-time tracking of A GIS-based maintenance management system promotes assets and vehicles with sources such as live closed-circuit efficient scheduling of activities and tracking of work television cameras to deliver a real-time security view of tasks, personnel, equipment, and material usage so your transportation facilities. These capabilities make GIS managers can track and report maintenance activities. an essential technology for managing a transportation Simultaneously, field-workers can record information, security framework. perform inspections, and locate assets with GIS-equipped mobile devices. Deficiencies identified in the field during inspections can automatically prompt the GIS to generate new work orders for maintenance and repair. GIS enables a shared common operational picture of transportation hubs and facilities, which promotes interagency communication and coordination of action.
- 7. Safety Management Accurate records of accident locations frequently hold the key to improving safety for motorists, freight carriers, railways, and pedestrians. GIS maps can display crash records paired with spatial analysis of congestion, construction zones, and weather, making obvious what can easily be missed in simple tabular data. Spatial analysis, combined with statistical and business intelligence tools, can help pinpoint the root causes of accidents and determine effective countermeasures. Departments of transportation can identify trends, such as increases in oversized vehicle traffic, permit violations, and general commercial traffic route information, using GIS tools—all leading to significant improvements in transportation safety. Combining digital maps with up-to-date data from accident and moving violation databases can speed up the recognition of troublesome hot spots. Rights-of-Way Management From property acquisition for new alignments to the disposal of unneeded properties, understanding the extent of your rights-of-way is a task enhanced by GIS. By linking parcel, survey, and assessor information, GIS can give rights-of-way managers GIS links imagery and data to utility, landscape, and maintenance schedules for complete rights-of-way management. a better understanding of their properties and a better way of analyzing which properties may no longer be required. GIS can capture the location of the various utilities within the rights-of-way, simplifying future construction and relocation Read case studies, explore options, activities and preventing unforeseen construction accidents. and connect with an expert at Rights-of-way leases can be managed by a GIS esri.com/transportation. linked to a database-driven lease management solution for more effective property management.
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