Transportation
Any organisation responsible for transportation knows that daily operations can be complex. Predicting future demand, maintaining and improving facilities and protecting the interests of the local area are all vital strategic activities.
GIS from ESRI is used by transportation organisations around the world as a vital tool for planning, evaluating, constructing, managing and maintaining their transportation systems.
This is because GIS has multiple applications. Thanks to its unique modelling capabilities, it can be used to predict travel demand for infrastructure planning as much as 20 years ahead. It can analyse annual capital improvement plans based on network usage and condition. It can also model and monitor the environmental impact of any transport hub on its surroundings.
More specifically, GIS can be used for:
- Highways management: to keep detailed, spatially accurate inventories of highway assets such as signs, signals, pavement, bridges, and lighting
- Railway management: for track, power, communications and signal maintenance, as well as rail system facility management
- Public transport: including demographic modelling and route planning, vehicle location and tracking, and emergency response
- Aviation planning and management: for environmental compliance, flight path maintenance and rapid re-routing in the event of bad weather
- Water transportation: to help engineers and planners model the potential environmental impact of traffic growth or new construction
