TransInfo, reducing risk exposure for ODOT personnel and members of the public. Additionally, the system supports reporting requirements to determine high crash locations and key performance metrics related to traffic fatalities and injuries. Efficient reporting In the United States, the amount of federal funding a state receives is related to the total traffic measured across its highway network. Each year in June, every state must submit a Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS) report to the U.S. DOT Federal Highway Administration. The HPMS report contains information regarding the road segments in the state based on a sample of the road segments. The requirements change every year and every state struggles to collect and submit this data accurately and on time. In the past, it took a team of ODOT managers, data analysts, and programmers several months to meet the increasingly complex HPMS reporting requirements. The process relied heavily on custom coding and required collecting data scattered across multiple, homegrown legacy databases. Additionally, each year regulators require the inclusion of more data — even as delivery time frames decrease. The lack of automated error-checking impacted report accuracy, as well as downstream business. ODOT has increased its efficiency for assembling data and producing the annual HPMS extract and other state and federal reports by 60 percent using AssetWise TIG. In addition, the state of Oregon is positioned to more easily comply with the requirements of MAP-21 and FAST Act legislation, which sets national performance measures for congestion, speed, safety, and other measures. New workflows and reports have been created for the extract supporting the federal All Road Network of Linear Referenced Data network submittal, which requires DOTs to submit their linear referencing system to include all public roads. In addition to reducing the production costs and time required to produce reports, AssetWise increases the quality, accuracy, and flexibility of the resulting extracts and reports. It prevents many data errors by making it impossible for data to be entered incorrectly. AssetWise allows ODOT to monitor and analyze large amounts of data, gain insights into status, and proactively adjust course before it’s too late. TransInfo has increased ODOT’s ability to respond to the ever- changing needs of various safety programs through better data accuracy, increased ability to produce both tabular and map-based reports, and the option to quickly add new fields to the database to track additional data as needed. The extracts and reports have also been created for the TripCheck web application, which benefits Oregon residents who use the app to stay informed about road closures and traffic incidents on state highways. ODOT has been able to provide data that is quickly accessible, more comprehensive, and solidly defensible to customers through enhanced reporting functionality and increased accuracy of the captured data. This complex reporting was not possible before the implementation of AssetWise and the TIG reporting capability.
Five-year payback ODOT is just beginning to exploit the full value of the AssetWise solution, which has established a single source for corporate highway data location referencing. The agency is using AssetWise to deliver transportation intelligence to stakeholders through a secure user interface, as well as move asset data to Data Warehouse, GIS applications, intelligent transportation systems, and data consumers across the agency. Before embarking on this project, ODOT identified the potential benefits of implementing Bentley’s AssetWise solution and creating the TransInfo system. The department anticipated nearly $6.1 million in savings through increased productivity, decreased training time, and decreased features inventory support and maintenance. Given these tangible results, the project costs could be repaid within five years.
In just over two years since deploying TransInfo, ODOT has already reported significant productivity gains. Using Bentley’s AssetWise, annual spatial-layer updates can be done in less than three resource- months than before. Reporting processes are now 66 percent more efficient, with data preparation for federal reporting taking 83 percent less time. Costs related to duplicate data entry and downstream data checking have been eliminated, and data management is 20 to 25 percent more efficient. ODOT has also seen labor costs related to field data collection, data entry, and maintenance decrease by 10 percent and duplication of field-collected inventory data has been mostly eliminated. Additionally, access to accurate, up-to-date information has simplified planning for construction projects on the State Transportation Improvement Project list. The data ensures issues that could delay or impact projects are known up front. Construction plan management now takes 15 percent less time using TransInfo. TransInfo and AssetWise have enabled ODOT to shift its focus from data assembly to data analysis, putting the agency firmly in the business of transportation asset management. The solution acts as a business intelligence capability to help the agency understand the current state of assets, make better maintenance decisions, and proactively manage transportation assets. MEG DAVIS is a senior market ing manager wi th Bent ley Systems (www.bent ley.com) responsible for the AssetWise solut ion, including AssetWise ECM and the transportat ion asset management products. Pr ior to joining Bent ley, she held product market ing leadership posi - t ions wi th sof tware companies offer ing enterpr ise asset management and transportat ion asset management solut ions.
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