GIS for Transportation

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Highway Management

Use GIS to keep detailed, spatially accurate inventories of roadway assets such as signs, signals, pavement, bridges, and lighting.

Railroads

Rail system operators use GIS to keep accurate inventories of facilities and report safety and performance statistics.

Mass Transit/Public Transport

GIS is an excellent tool for analyzing ridership and service, as well as revenue, patterns, and usage by select populations.

Aviation

Use GIS for managing airport facilities, regulating use of airspace, and noise modeling.

Water Transportation

GIS helps engineers build and manage port facilities and helps planners accommodate community and environmental constraints more easily.

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New Book from ESRI Press

Designing Geodatabases for Transportation details enterprise GIS design for managing transportation systems.

Transportation professionals the world over have discovered and embraced GIS as an important tool in managing, planning, evaluating, and maintaining transportation systems.

GIS for transportation, named GIS-T by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, has been used for diverse purposes:

From modeling travel demand 20 years in the future to tracking a snowplow.
From analyzing the annual capital improvement plans to identifying noise regulation violations around airports.
From improving transit service throughout rejuvenated urban centers to planning scenic byways in recreational areas.

Small Municipalities and Counties ELA

Take advantage of a new Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) program that gives authorization to make unlimited deployments of ESRI ArcGIS software to internal users.