Farallon Geographics provides a wide range of GIS and Location Technology services including: Mapping, Geodatabases, Spatial Information Management, Enterprise Mashups, Spatial Databases, LSR, Pavement Management, Utility Networks, Parcel Management, GPS Data Collection, Training, Asset Management Integration

Enterprise GIS for Pavement Management

Executive Summary

Problem

Pavement, traffic and location data are usually managed in unrelated systems, creating duplicated and inconsistent data. They use different referencing systems, making it difficult to understand the relationships between pavement attributes and street locations and networks.

Solution

An enterprise GIS linked to a PMS is an efficient means to query data and display trends and patterns to track pavement condition, and allocate funds effectively. It can integrate diverse data (e.g. existing conditions, accident histories, economic needs, hazardous materials shipment and vehicle volumes) with accurate locations.

Pavement Management collects data using many referencing systems and formats

Pavement management decisions need to integrate diverse spatially referenced data, including condition surveys, pavement width, number of lanes, construction history, skid resistance measurements, traffic counts, bridge conditions, sign inventories, and construction and maintenance records. These data are usually unrelated to each other, duplicative, and inconsistent. Understanding the relationships between these pavement attributes and the street locations and networks is further complicated because they use different referencing systems such as milepost, reference post, state plane, or latitude / longitude.

Enterprise GIS to analyze, predict, and budget highway, street, and road pavements

Farallon Geographics helps cities and counties to implement enterprise GIS asset tracking systems to manage the monitoring and maintenance of their pavement network systems. These spatially-enabled pavement management systems (PMS) allow management, engineers and the public to use a web-based map interface to identify problem pavement areas in near real-time.

Real-time view of pavement condition index values in ArcGIS coming directly from StreetSaver 8.0 without any export or data translation

Identify problem pavement areas in real time

Investing in a GIS pavement management system will pay for itself many times over through reduced repair costs, optimized maintenance schedules, and interagency coordination (e.g. making sure that newly paved roads are not immediately torn up by sewer or cable maintenance crews). But for a PMS to maximize impact and yield the highest return on investment, the system must be easily accessible and understandable to all users including maintenance crews, and departmental staff: Planning, Public Works, Transportation and Finance.

Farallon is the first company to integrate ESRI, Intergraph and Oracle GIS software with MTC's StreetSaver v.8 pavement management system, allowing the dynamic segmentation of pavement data in real time from an enterprise geodatabase. This allows immediate views of the relationship between pavement condition information and actual locations on a map.

Example integrations with StreetSaver v.8 include: ESRI's ArcGIS 8 and ArcSDE 8; ESRI's ArcGIS 9 and ArcSDE 9; Intergraph GeoMedia 5 running on Oracle; and Oracle Spatial

GIS-PMS for Asset Management and Compliance

The GIS-PMS serves as a sophisticated asset management system. Traditional asset management systems are not suited to handle geographic assets, which have been managed alphabetically or in arbitrary groups. But geographic assets such as pavement networks and utilities are best managed by a system that relates assets through maps.

A GIS-based PMS also provides for easier compliance with recent accounting rules that require government entities to present a set of financial statements with a "net asset" focus. Long-term fixed assets such as pavement assets were previously expensed and not capitalized on balance sheets. The GIS-PMS allows the agency to not be required to depreciate pavement assets. Depreciation is required if proper maintenance activity cannot be demonstrated.

Farallon GIS - Pavement Management Systems Solutions

The Farallon team has exceptional experience in the development of GIS street data, including planning, data modeling, data development, and integration with enterprise applications including:

Pavement management systems
Real-time dynamic segmentation of GIS data for PMS
E-911 computer aided dispatch
Geocoding
Routing/Nnetworking
Document and asset management

Farallon is an official MTC P-Tap Vendor P-TAP provides Bay Area jurisdictions with assistance and expertise in implementing and maintaining a Pavement Management Systems. P-Tap vendors provide this expertise.

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