Woodland Solutions Group, a DJ&A company, developed and implemented an access road management system for a prominent utility client. This system is built from the ground up on Esri’s ArcGIS and includes a streamlined map-based data collection platform (MobileMap Road®) and a powerful web-based data management system (Spatial CMS). The road management system focuses on safe and efficient capture of road location and condition data, and full life cycle management of road data. It has streamlined various processes for our client, including road inventory and project planning for road reconstruction and maintenance, stream and watercourse crossing restoration, and monitoring regulatory and environmental permitting requirements. Our team provided expertise in software development, data model design, field data collection, training, and technical support. We collaborated closely with utility land management personnel to extend the system based on their specific road inventory and maintenance needs, offering on-site data collection and management training, ongoing technical support, and field personnel assistance for data collection. Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) was integrated into the road management system using business rules and logic.
- Key Services
- Program requirements clarification and documentation
- Technology assessment for range of available solutions
- Software selection, customization and integration with legacy and 3rd party systems
- Data model development and database implementation
- Field protocol optimization to ensure efficient and safe collection of high quality data
- On-site and ongoing training and support for data collection and management
- Value Added
- Improved data collection efficiency by supporting simultaneous data collection for multiple features (e.g., road centerlines, culverts, vegetation encroachment, road maintenance issues)
- Improved data accuracy through robust data model and business rules
- Efficiency and accuracy gains improved safety by reducing time on roads collecting data and eliminating revisits to fix data errors
- Field data collection user interface optimized for safety via one-touch data collection
- Developed customized dashboards to quantify road utilization trends, road inventory milestones, road reconstruction, and road maintenance needs
- Ensured seamless data sharing, while maintaining data integrity and confidentiality, partner organizations, including contractors and regulatory agencies
