GIS Model for State DOT Maintenance Planning and Scheduling, Part One

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GIS Model for State DOT Maintenance Planning and Scheduling, Part One

With a $1.3 billion annual maintenance budget to support and enhance the nation’s fifth largest state-maintained roadway network, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) turned to geospatial technology to better manage data. Developed by GeoDecisions, Maintenance-IQ is a GIS application revolutionizing how PennDOT’s Bureau of Maintenance and Operations plans and schedules road maintenance activities throughout the Keystone State. 

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Power Perspective: Improved Decision Making (Part Two)

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Power Perspective: Improved Decision Making (Part Two)

To make good decisions about utility infrastructure, operators need to closely monitor assets, stay informed of their condition, and quickly access their attributes. As an asset management tool, a GIS application offers users a single source for storing reliable asset information and mapping the location of everything from transmission, substations, and above-ground and underground distribution, to service locations. Using GIS, field crews can perform real-time data collection tasks, such as inventorying assets, performing pole inspections, and redlining data discrepancies.

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Power Perspective: Single-Source Asset Management (Part One)

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Power Perspective: Single-Source Asset Management (Part One)

Reliable electricity is essential as the U.S. continues toward more sophisticated use of information technology, computerized controls, and sensitive electronics. The interconnection of major power plants plus generation facilities, hundreds of thousands of miles of high-voltage transmission lines, and local distribution networks all play a part in providing electricity essential to U.S. commercial, security, industrial, and residential users. 

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