Alberta Transportation, Canada

Alberta uses Geospatial Solutions to Manage Complete Road Network

Intergraph's Transportation Solutions Improve Information Access, Visibility Through Web Application

The Challenge:

Alberta’s Department of Transportation leads the planning, construction, and preservation
of the province’s highway network to connect communities and support economic
and social growth. It also is involved in safety services, providing information and enforcement programs, along with engineering solutions to promote safe driving and the transport of dangerous materials.

Following a realignment in 1996, Alberta started to outsource many operations,
including highway maintenance. Instead of actually performing work in the field and
other tasks, the department was managing and planning activities for contractors.
Alberta needed an information system capable of managing data from outside
sources, and one that could provide accurate data now that the organization had
fewer personnel in the field.

The Project Objectives:

Develop a system that would improve the capital planning process
Implement Web services to improve access to network data
Support transition to distributed model of operations

The Solution:

An Intergraph® customer for more than 30 years, Alberta evaluated the market and went through a request for proposal process. The department chose to extend its successful relationship with Intergraph because of the company’s deep transportation industry knowledge and past support. Alberta used Intergraph’s geospatial Road and Rail Infrastructure Management Solution to enhance its Transportation Information Management System (TIMS) and support the TIMS objective of becoming a knowledge portal for the department.

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