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Transit
Armando LaCivita is district
manager of the Ontario Region
for Esri Canada.
is the beginning of building a digital twin for
these companies.
And of course, it benefits the city who also
can use these maps. Now if they must dig,
they will know where things are. This reduces
that old routine of ripping up the road once
and then watching some other group dig it up
again six months later.
This 'plan before you dig' approach seems
obvious now, but it's a first—and it's not
limited to building subways. It's scalable
to smaller cities and can be used for any
linear infrastructure build, like highways or
even the broadband networks being built
seemingly everywhere in Canada.
In March 2021, the Ontario government
passed the Build Broadband Faster Act. By
forcing preplanning on all the stakeholders,
limiting the cost, and ensuring the collated
data is accurate using Esri's ArcGIS system,
it's now cheaper and more efficient to build
broadband in Ontario, including where it is
most needed: remote communities.
Credit:
Metrolinx
Esri's Canada's ArcGIS system
played a critical role in utility
coordination of transit projects,
as it uses location to integrate
different data types and sources
from multiple organizations
into a cohesive view that
can be easily shared among
stakeholders.
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