You’re on the right road with Intergraph® Transportation Solutions

Whether it’s making roads safer for the public or spurring economic growth with roadway enhancements, transportation agencies face the ultimate responsibility of maintaining our highway infrastructure system.

To keep traffic flowing safely along our nation’s highways, transportation agencies require a comprehensive view of roadway network data. Agencies needs to track, analyze, and review accurate infrastructure data, regardless of its source. A clear picture of your network supports better decisions, saves time and money, and most importantly, promotes safety, all the while protecting roadway infrastructure investments.

As geospatial technology plays an increasing role in managing our nation’s highway infrastructure, Intergraph® designed its geospatial transportation solutions to address the issues of data integration and many other business problems facing the transportation industry. Our approach of focusing on data integration while delivering modular applications for viewing, managing, and reporting roadway infrastructure data provides a cost-effective technology solution for the transportation industry. We deliver powerful and flexible applications that respond to specific business problems, such as multilevel linear referencing for enterprise data analysis, automated routing for oversized and overweight vehicles, and straight line diagrams that enable you to create and view roadway information that meets your needs.

Intergraph’s Transportation Solutions enable transportation agencies to more clearly, efficiently, and cost-effectively manage and protect their roadway infrastructure. Working with more than 40 transportation departments across the U.S., Intergraph solutions help streamline operations, maintain compliance with federal regulations, and improve safety and driving conditions for motorists by quickly addressing potential issues through faster, more informed decision making. Our open solutions integrate with commercial map providers, such as Microsoft®  Bing and Google, as well as commercial data sets, including NAVTEQ and TeleAtlas. Below are some examples of how Intergraph solutions keep transportation agencies on the right road.

Managing ever-changing data with MLRS

The Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) faced the challenge of integrating constantly changing data from many sources. NDOT wanted to build and maintain a new linear referencing system (LRS) to seamlessly manage and analyze all of its roadway information, including state and county data, regardless of the source or referencing method. Using Intergraph’s Multilevel Linear Referencing System (MLRS), NDOT built and maintains its MLRS data model and roadway data to streamline the LRS maintenance process. The MLRS eliminates the need for multiple data models, manual data conflation, and manages data translation between linear referencing methods on the fly. NDOT uses our MLRS as a location reference tool to manage its underlying network. In addition, NDOT can use MLRS to address reporting requirements of SAFETLU and other agencies in a more efficient and timely manner. The new system manages migrated linear data for every street, county, road, and highway in Nevada. (Watch Webcast).

“Through Nevada DOT’s close relationship with Intergraph, we’ve been able to address Nevada’s highway safety concerns in a cost-effective manner, while fulfilling our federal reporting requirements,” said Grahame Ross of the Nevada Department of Transportation. “Through our strong relationship with Intergraph, we will continue to build on our safety management system, ultimately saving lives and decreasing costs for taxpayers.”

Intergraph’s MLRS offers:
•    Stable linear datum
•    Event location stability
•    Temporal LRS analysis
•    Determining safe routes

Transportation agencies must also determine safe routes for oversized and overweight (OS/OW) vehicles traveling through their jurisdiction. For example, if an oversized vehicle carrying components of a windmill is too large for a particular bridge in your area, your agency must re-route it. It may take a Department of Transportation permitting agent many hours to research the potential roadway hazards for an OS/OW vehicle, which can result in significant delays for permit issuance. Intergraph’s Automated Routing for OS/OW Vehicles application integrates information pertaining to bridges, construction projects, turn movements, or other roadway infrastructure data with the network to safely and accurately route vehicles through the system. Its restriction management capabilities also enable you to account for temporary events, such as an accident or lane closure for repair work.

Our automated approach focuses on potential problems and hazards that would prevent safe passage of the vehicle. You can capture vehicle and load information during the permit request, compare it to network route restrictions, and determine if a safe route is possible for the vehicle. Our solution can also provide support to structural engineers and permit agents for making special notes about the route if needed. Once a safe route is determined, the solution provides detailed driving directions and map output for the permit department to ensure the carrier fully understands the route being permitted.

The Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) needed to improve its routing process due to a growing number of oversized/overweight commercial trucks traveling through the state. ODOT selected the Intergraph Automated Routing for OS/OW Vehicles application. It started implementing the system in 2010. “Intergraph was selected for the project for several different reasons,” said Jay Adams, chairman of the selection committee for OS/OW routing and permitting at ODOT. “All of the other companies we interviewed were looking at the same old solution. We were looking for something that hadn’t been done yet, something that was unique.” (Download case study).

Intergraph’s Automated Routing for OS/OW Vehicles offers:
•    Fast end-to-end route generation
•    Improved safety by ensuring trucks travel approved routes
•    Real-time restriction management

Viewing and Analyzing Roadway Information

To gain a complete picture of their network, transportation departments must collect and manage vast amounts of data about the characteristics and conditions of roads, bridges, and other infrastructure. With an abundance of data, your department needs the ability to view it in a useful way. Intergraph’s Straight Line Diagram (SLD) Web service creates SLDs on demand using your department’s most up-to-date information. You simply select a road, choose what data you want to review, and the Web service does the rest. Intergraph’s SLD Web service is much less labor-intensive compared to most existing methods, saving you significant time.

The Intergraph application allows you to control the portion of the road you want to analyze, and view data in a way that you can easily interpret and analyze. In addition, the ability to interact with Intergraph’s SLD makes it much more than just static information.

Intergraph’s SLD offers:
•    Easy methods to identify sections of roads to analyze
•    Tooltips for additional information
•    Access to multiple road characteristics

Safe, Reliable, and Efficient Transportation Networks

Intergraph has many years of experience in the transportation industry. We understand the issues and challenges you face on a daily basis to keep your highways safe and protect your infrastructure. Our comprehensive range of transportation solutions help keep people and assets moving safely and efficiently across the world. Road, rail, and transit agencies, as well as airports and seaports, use these solutions to secure, manage, and maintain their transportation networks, keeping them efficient, reliable and safe.

For more information on Intergraph’s Transportation Solutions, visit www.intergraph.com/transportation/solutions.aspx