Case Studies

To facilitate the maintenance and management of data pertaining to the City's road network, the GIS team used Esri Roads and Highways based on a linear referencing system (LRS) method, which uses positions and locations to reference assets along a route. Locations are relative to the length of the route and may change positionally when the route changes, whereas positions are discrete points on the ground and have no direct relationship to a route. This innovative and highly efficient solution allows government departments to integrate data from multiple linear referencing system networks to get a comprehensive view of their roadways. Compared to a traditional intersection-to-intersection model, the Roads and Highways LRS can accurately represent the details of any construction. The ease of visualizing and maintaining road networks, creating transparency and eliminating silos go a long way in optimizing available assets in any community – something that the City of Penticton wanted to achieve for effective data management of all its assets. Esri's Roads and Highways, based on Web GIS, is able to record information at a finer level of detail without the need for complex editing of geometries. Its simpler and streamlined data maintenance processes suited to road information allowed the team to fully optimize asset management for the city. After the initial scope of the project was fulfilled, it became apparent that the LRS provided through Esri Roads and Highways had some clear advantages over the traditional intersection-to-intersection segmented road model used by other municipalities. Out of the many benefits that the Roads and Highways solution affords: one single centreline accommodates multiple and disparate sets of data; a centralized repository allows everyone easy access to details that matter. Esri's inclusive technology, with its web-based, user-friendly interface, makes it easier for the team to edit data in real time. There are more than 80 layers of datasets on most of the City's roads or highways such as surface material, attribution, width, repair history, speed limit, direction and so on. Not only is it cumbersome to organize the information from each of these layers separately, but it also impacts intelligent decision-making. By organizing all these layers on one centreline, the GIS team is now able to produce more accurate reports resulting in improved operations. By laying a sound foundation for managing data of its road network, the City of Penticton is ready to engage city staff and the public with a multi-modal transportation system that incorporates different types of transportation modes (such as walking, sharing a bike, riding a train or driving a car) into city planning. By making data open and transparent, it's breaking barriers and inter-organizational silos, and encouraging city-wide consumption of data and participation in data management. It's getting ready for the future, a smart future. Enabling Effective Data Management of Roads in Penticton | Esri Canada 2 "After reviewing different approaches for managing road information, we found that Esri's Roads and Highways, based on Web GIS, is able to record information at a finer level of detail without the need for complex editing of geometries. We worked really hard and now we have laid a really good foundation for future data management." Dave Polvere IT Manager City of Penticton Solution Benefits Compared to a traditional intersection- to-intersection model, the Roads and Highways ALRS can accurately represent the details of any construction. Roads and Highways handles segmentation – merging coincident information and removing overlapping attributes that may otherwise duplicate.

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