A Flexible FHWA Traffic Noise Model UI Featured at the Esri UC

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A Flexible FHWA Traffic Noise Model UI Featured at the Esri UC

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has been using the Traffic Noise Modeler (TNM) 2.5 since the late 1990s. While this product served the FHWA well, they wanted to create a new product that would enhance the usability, beautify the user interface (UI) experience, and update the underlying noise model libraries to a .NET language. Not only did we want to build a new standalone UI for the FHWA, we wanted to provide even more functionality in a roadway engineer's native tools. We designed and developed three additional tools to meet this goal.

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Summer Vacation Survival 101: Mapping Apps

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Summer Vacation Survival 101: Mapping Apps

The school year is nearly wrapped up for my kids and our family has been planning possible weekend trips later on this summer to take advantage of the inexpensive fuel prices. Reflecting on how my wife and I now use for trip planning, I cannot help but recognize the impact that GIS has made on our decision-making process.  

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GeoDecisions GeoPlan Benefits Sanitary Sewer and Stormwater Utilities

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GeoDecisions GeoPlan Benefits Sanitary Sewer and Stormwater Utilities

Kevin Scott, GISP, a GeoDecisions senior project manager based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, provided the water business unit of Gannett Fleming, GeoDecisions’ parent company, with an overview of GeoPlan during a recent learning session. Powered by GeoDecisions, GeoPlan is a web-based software package that features a full suite of modules to help municipalities, cities, and counties manage operations.

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