South Carolina DOT (Roadway Info Mgmt. System), United States

Providing Enterprise Access to Roadway Information

The South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) is responsible for controlling 65 percent of the total roadway miles in South Carolina. information about the 41,000 miles of state-controlled road inventory has historically been maintained in a mainframe-based application, with limited user access across the SCDOT enterprise. Data access was limited to employees with an in-depth knowledge of both the mainframe application and the structure of the data itself. Reports were mostly written and maintained by programmers or by users with extensive knowledge of the mainframe reporting languages. In order to make the data more easily accessible to more employees, SCDOT sought an upgraded roadway inventory application. It needed an application that simplified management of the inventory and associated roadway assets and that would allow users to generate their own queries and reports.

Based on Intergraph's long history of providing effective transportation solutions to state government, it was selected by SCDOT to migrate the roadway inventory from the mainframe to an Oracle-based Roadway Information Management System (RIMS). The RIMS graphical user interfaces, developed with Sybase Powerbuilder, were designed after many planning and requirement-gathering sessions with SCDOT. These intensive requirement and design sessions are part of the strict, proven project development methodology utilized by Intergraph to design and implement enterprise applications; in this case, a system that met the needs of all SCDOT employees. In addition, Intergraph utilized a phased approach to delivering RIMS to SCDOT that allowed the modules developed early in the project to be deployed and made available to many users across the department.

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