While focusing on sustaining existing traffic networks and road management, the emergence of multimodal transportation, changing travel patterns, and autonomous vehicles presents an opportunity for public works agencies to reenvision their communities. GIS and street maintenance software offer a lens to see and better understand gaps in service, improve road safety, prioritize improvements, model circulation, and deliver infrastructure that is resilient and equitable.
Public works agencies must understand current conditions to better prioritize road and bridge management. With GIS, agencies can analyze travel patterns, shifting lifestyles, and future trends such as autonomous vehicles to target problematic infrastructure spots before it's too late. Help residents understand why and where you are investing their tax dollars.
Public works agency staff must step out of repair-and-rebuild mode. They must rethink their capital improvement plan. Sensors, artificial intelligence, drones, and driverless cars will affect everything we plan and build. GIS allows agency leaders to be forward-thinking and build infrastructure that is ready to support the technology of tomorrow.
With GIS, you can capture and analyze accurate traffic crash data. Historical records help you understand where accidents have occurred in the past and what measures you can take to prevent them in the future. GIS gives you effective ways to communicate safety plans, show the impact of safety improvements, and increase the public's confidence.
Communicate road closures, preventative maintenance, capital projects, and new traffic patterns with the public to build confidence that you have made the most strategic and cost-effective decisions regarding the public's tax dollars. Provide tools that allow residents to voice their concerns, submit 311 service requests, or provide feedback.
Map and monitor your streets and roads to understand the exact location of utilities for construction or permitting. Better supervise vegetation management within your rights-of-way. Create situational awareness of right-of-way permits, work orders, road closures, and construction projects in real time.
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Easy-to-read dashboard grants support for internal decision-making processes and creates transparency with the public.
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Washington, DC, uses ArcGIS Hub to create a consolidated home for information on current and upcoming road safety projects.
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With the help of GIS, Louisville, Kentucky receives $21 million in federal funding to improve road safety for all.
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GIS streamlines sidewalk inventory and aids in data modeling for future cost scenarios.
Explore ArcGIS Solutions and product offerings that enhance streets, roads, and bridges.
This ArcGIS extension provides the network-based spatial analysis tools to plan routes, calculate drive times, and locate facilities.
Integrate data from multiple linear referencing system networks to get a comprehensive view of roadways.
Maintain an authoritative inventory of roads, intersections, and physical road characteristics and track legal agreements.
Inventory signs, signals, streetlights, and other visible assets in the public right-of-way.
Maintain an inventory of road closures and communicate closures and detours to travelers.
Analyze crash data and identify streets and intersections where concentrations of serious and fatal crashes occur.
Develop winter weather response plans, monitor winter weather operations, share road status updates, and track vehicle locations and materials.
Index the geographic extent of record plans and drawings and provide access to a catalog of source documents in the office or the field.
