GIS Forum: Building a Bridge to a Safe, Secure, and Prosperous Tomorrow

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GIS Forum Building a Bridge to a Safe, Secure,
and Prosperous Tomorrow

• US Chamber of Commerce and
• US Department of Commerce19 October 2006

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Agenda

• GIS Uses within Transportation
• Barriers
• Technical Challenges
• Future Opportunities

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Traditional GIS Use in Transportation

• Single mode focus
• Mapping and spatial analysis
• Emergency Response
• Construction and Maintenance highways, airport
  improvement, public transit
• Improve safety highway/rail grade crossings,
  environment surrounding pipelines
• Environmental identifying most appropriate
  routes for new roads National Environmental
  Policy Act (NEPA)

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Traditional GIS Use in Transportation

• Transportation Planning
• Aeronautical Charting
• Research program to validate commercial remote
  sensing products and spatial information
  technologies for application to national
  transportation infrastructure development and
  construction.

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Moving Away from Tradition

• Greater focus on multimodal issues
• Developing a national integrated transportation
  infrastructure for passengers and freight
• Intermodal connection data do not exist
• Proprietary information

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Barriers

• Programs are functionally purposed little
  sharing, many stovepipes
• Sustained funding
• Data sharing
• Web Access to data
• Separate agency missions require different data
  attributes for same data roads Mailing
  address versus Linear Referencing

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Technical Challenges

• Technical expertise and capacity
• Lack of recognized and accepted standards
• Use of Land-based sensors for critical
  infrastructure, traffic flows, and bottlenecks

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Future Opportunities

• Improve data and application sharing through
  leveraging Geospatial Line of Business Activities
• Issues are not technical issues deal with
  coordination and cooperation
• Identify providers at the appropriate level
  authoritative sources
• Develop partnerships to recognize these
  authoritative sources

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• Thank you
• Carol Brandt
• Geospatial Information Program Manager
• Carol.brandt_at_dot.gov
• 202.366.6662