GIS for Transportation
 

Safety and Security

GIS technology can be used to analysis, report, and share up-to-date information quickly with multiple agencies.

click to see enlargement Many states use GIS to analyze crash records and identify safety trends.

Highway agencies have also taken on a key role in emergency management by planning and supporting critical functions such as evacuations due to severe weather and natural disasters as well as terrorist and other criminal threats.

click to see enlargement GIS is an excellent tool for modeling the effectiveness of existing lighting plans and designing new layouts.

The analytical capabilities of GIS support a variety of tasks.

  • Crash location and reporting
  • Incident and response management
  • Accident analysis and "hot spot" identification
  • Safety engineering and capital improvement
  • Construction site management
  • Vulnerability assessment
  • Evacuation planning
  • Flood and snow emergency operations
  • Hazardous material tracking
  • Bridge rating and oversize truck permitting
  • Lighting and visibility

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