KYTC GIS: Grabbing Low Hanging Fruit

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KYTC GIS Grabbing Low Hanging Fruit

• Will Holmes
• Office of Information Technology
• Engineering Web Branch
• GIS Team

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Overview

• What is GIS?
• Basics of GIS.
• What is available in the Cabinets data now.
• Why should you care?
• What it is doing for others in the Cabinet.
• What it can do for you.
• Why should you REALLY care?
• Where are we headed?

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What is it? The Basics.

• GIS is bringing your data along with anyone
  else's to the where of your problem.
• It lets you cross-reference your data with other
  relevant data in a spatial context.
• Its not just maps.
• Its information in spatial relationships with
  other information.

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An Early KYTC GIS
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Integrating Many Data Sources
Flood Zones (FEMA)
Aerial Photography (COT-DGI)
Wetlands (EEC)
City Boundaries (Sec. of State)
Sewer Lines (KIA)
Hospitals (Private Sector)
Landfill (DoWM)
Industry (Econ. Dev.)
Roads (KYTC)
Farm Soils (USDA)
Schools (Edu.)
SYP (KYTC)
Streams (DoW/USGS)
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KYTC Agencies We Support
State Highway Engineers Office
Maintenance
Program Management
Highway Design
Planning
Traffic
Structural Design
Roadside Environment Branch
Transportation Systems
Bridge Design Branch
Tech Support Branch
Aviation
Data Management
Geotech Branch
Estimating Branch
Bridge Preservation Branch
Rural and Secondary Roads
Modal Programs
Development Branch
Environmental Analysis
Operations Pavement Branch
Drainage Section
Special Programs
Archaeology Section
Permits Branch
Location Section
Ecology Section
Traffic Operations Center
Highway Safety
Environmental Coordinators
Districts 1 - 12
Cultural Historic Section
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Spatial Integration Weaves Systems Together
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Why do this?

• When you are analyzing a problem
• It has a WHERE component.
• You naturally map differing information onto the
  location and then analyze it.
• Why not let a tool do that for you so you can
  focus on the details, rather than the processing?

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What is available to help you now?

• Lots of Data
• GIS Help Desk
• GIS Help Web Site
• GIS Training
• Web Based Tools
• Internet Mapping Sites
• Focused on specific jobs in the Cabinet.
• Desktop GIS Tools
• Basic GIS Software
• Many job-specific GIS Templates

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A Card Catalog for GIS Data

• Shared folders hold 450 Layers
• Layer files
• Point to source data stored anywhere.
• Pre-symbolize data to speed up the usefulness.
  Just Drop Go.
• Constantly growing wealth of data

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Examples of KYTC Data

• Analysis
• Accidents -- Critical Rate Factor
• Traffic Volume Changes
• Assets
• Access Control
• Bike Routes
• Lane Widths
• Shoulder Types
• Base Transportation Data
• Roads
• Mile points
• Bridges

• Boundaries
• Districts
• MPO Planning Boundaries
• Projects
• SYP
• MOAs
• Road Systems
• Extended Weight
• Functional Class
• NHS
• Truck Routes

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Examples of Other Data

• Boundaries
• County City Lines
• School Districts
• Census themes
• Demographics
• Environment
• Landfills
• Fish wildlife
• Wildlife Management Areas
• Geodesy
• Survey Control
• Geophysical
• Sinkholes
• Faults

• Imagery
• 2 Aerial Photography
• 6 in select cities
• Institutional
• Hospitals
• Schools
• Land Use
• Recreation
• State Parks
• Soils
• Utilities
• Water, Sewer, Electric
• Water Resources
• Flood Zones
• Wetlands

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A GIS Help Desk

• Staffed every day
• Matt, Jay or Zee can help problem solve your
  issue.
• Centralized contact/email information
  distribution to customers.

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A GIS Help Web Site.

• http//DOT/GISHelp/
• Available 24/7
• Holds contact information
• FAQ
• Training announcements

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ESRI Basic GIS Training

• Gives you a solid foundation on GIS.
• Agreement between KYTC Personnel, OIT and
  Kentucky State to train 20 people per year in
  basic GIS.
• K-State discounts training whenever we train 6 or
  more people in one class.
• Cost is below ESRI list for classes.

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A Transportation-focused GIS Training Program

• Every month, we teach one Basic one
  Advanced class.
• Designed help you use GIS to do your job better,
  faster, and more efficiently.
• Allows us to also learn about unique and common
  problems our customers have.
• Our periodic Open Labs offer one on one support
  for our customers.

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Web Mapping Sites

• Provide greater access to information for
• Cabinet Personnel
• Consultants
• General Public
• Each user defines Area of Interest and which
  layers are important.
• Increases transparency

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Traffic Count IMS

• Provides current information for all Traffic
  Count Stations.
• Mapping at the moment of need.
• Scaled to your Area of Interest
• Not broken at the county lines.
• Can zoom to see location with aerial photography.
• Site is updated weekly
• Old Maps
• Were on a yearly cycle
• Took several staff to maintain.

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Getting to Where
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Traffic Count Maps
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Traffic Counts on Imagery
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Rural and Secondary Roads (RASR)

• Displays where RASR are allocating funds for road
  maintenance.
• Provides
• Greater Transparency
• Everyone can see where and how much just like
  the SYP.
• Greater Accountability
• Cant pave your babysitters road without it
  showing up.

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RASR
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RASR
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CRA

• Helps Planning show County Judges where they are
  allowed to spend their funds for local road
  maintenance.
• Increases efficiency in communication between
  KYTC and Local Govt.

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CRA
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CRA
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CRA Report
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Bike Routes IMS

• Promotes biking to the public.
• Tourism
• Healthy Lifestyle
• Allows bikers to determine safe alternate routes
  using existing KYTC Data
• Shoulder widths
• ADT

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Bike Routes IMS
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Bike Routes IMS
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Bike Routes IMS
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Maintenance Rating Program IMS
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Allows staff to see overall distribution of
rating sites.
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Plan work routes (not limited to a county).
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Closely examine locations
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Print Page

• Customized to your needs.

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Desktop Applications

• I-65 Cable Barrier Study
• Needed to visualize areas and the relationships
  to the crossover accident information.
• Multiple locations over many miles
• Needed a new method to convey the information

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I-65 Cable Barrier Study

• Visualize Proposed Areas for Cable Barriers
• Fatalities
• Injuries
• Proposed Barrier Areas
• Terrain/Imagery

Other Direction
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I-65 Cable Barrier Study
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Why should you want GIS?
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When you get that call

• Theres a fatal curve youve got to fix
• This section of road is shut down with
  congestion. Youve got to do something about it!
• You need to repave my road!

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GIS

• Gives you the tools to analyze all the different
  information efficiently.
• Allows you to share that knowledge with others.

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Why should you REALLY care?

• GIS can be your sword and your shield.
• It can protect your project or idea.
• Cuts away extraneous questions or arguments
• BUT youd better have the facts.
• BECAUSE the State Highway Engineer and his staff
  are using GIS to evaluate projects, needs, etc..

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Justify

• Why do we need this project?
• Have you looked at the details?
• Schools, hospitals, police fire departments?
• Industrial sites and existing industry?
• Fatalities
• Critical rate factor
• Traffic counts
• Is it in the city limits?
• Is it a special corridor (Scenic Byway, Drive
  Smart)?
• Whose Legislative District is this in?
• What utilities do we have to deal with?

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Maysville Example Using the State Highway
Engineers Template

• Use SHE Template to answer the above questions
• Show how Identify All can drill through
  everything
• Links between data and other reports

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Open Template
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Maysville
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Zoom to 9-200.00

• Schools
• Hospitals
• Police departments
• Fire departments
• Industrial sites
• Existing industry
• City limits

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A Closer Look

• Institutional Names
• Industry Names
• Fatalities
• ADT 18,000/13,500

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Identify All
Hyperlink

• Critical Rate Factor
• Drive Smart
• Legislative Districts

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Link
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What Utilities Do We Have to Contend With?

• Water lines
• Sewer Lines

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SHE Template Example Results

• Brought 120 layers out of the box ready to be
  used.
• 300 more readily available to be added in.
• Can bring your own data into it as well.
• Spreadsheets. GPS Points, CADD, etc
• Fast
• Sharable
• Email (or print) a map
• Hand off the customized MXD to a colleague.

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Where is the GIS Team headed?
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Where are we headedGIS Support

• Continuing to provide help desk, training, and
  other support.
• Expanding staff and their training to improve
  service.
• Updating the GIS Help Website

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Where are we headed New Involvement Options

• Peer to Peer Training
• Creating new internal user group to improve
  collaboration among peers.
• GIS Day Mini-Conference in the KYTC Auditorium
• November 19th
• KYTC Staff Show and Tell their GIS Success
  Stories
• Open to all KYTC Staff (with management
  approval).
• Creating an advisory group of our customers to
  provide regular feedback.

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Where are we headed New Data and Models

• Data
• Mowing Areas
• Will be tied to contract information
• Airport Footprints (Runways, Taxi-ways,
  Buildings)
• Models
• Automated scripts to help you do repeated
  processes more efficiently.
• Like building a Quick Buffer Report.

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Where are we headed ArcServer

• New Technology from ESRI
• Will replace IMS eventually
• Can build traditional mapping applications like
  IMS, but
• Can also build thin embedded mapping into
  traditional applications (like PERKS,
  Right-of-Way, etc.).

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ArcServer Example IRI
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Where are we headed New Technology

• New version of ArcGIS Software 9.3
• Better performance
• A little more functionality
• Tighter CADD/GIS Integration
• Pushing out GIS to more District Personnel
• Starting with Executive Directors
• Embedding living maps into applications OIT is
  building.
• Right of Way, Perks, etc.
• Adding a WIKI

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What is a WIKI?

• From Wikipedia
• A wiki is a collection of web pages designed to
  enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or
  modify content.
• Wikis are used in business to provide intranets
  and Knowledge Management systems.
• We
• Become the creators of the KYTC GIS Knowledge
  Base.
• Empower our colleagues by sharing that cool
  trick that saves time.
• Its not about control. Its about building a
  better system together.

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How do I get GIS?

• Utilize the Web-based IMS Sites.
• Bike, HIS, SYP, MRP,
• http//dot/gishelp
• Transportation Home Page Maps
• Make an IT Request for desktop GIS
• Include your
• Name
• Machine name
• Description of how you want to use it.

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Remember Why We Work to Build A Safe
Transportation System
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Thank You!

• Will Holmes
• Office of Information Technology
• Engineering Web Branch
• GIS Team