Issue link: https://resources.esri.ca/i/991079
10 | SPRING 2018 ArcNorthNews streamlined data maintenance processes suited to road information were also very helpful," Polvere explains. "This is the only solution we found that could optimize asset management for our city. We worked really hard and now we have laid a really good foundation for future asset management." Tyler Figgitt is the design supervisor with the department of Engineering For Capital Works at the City and has been a part of the project from its very beginning. He is happy with the many benefits: 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, our GIS team is able to produce more accurate reports," Figgitt points out. After the initial scope of the project was fulfilled, it became apparent that the ALRS provided through Esri's Roads and Highways had some clear advantages over the traditional intersection-to- intersection segmented road model used by other municipalities. The City decided to establish a second ALRS to manage the complex attribution information of sidewalks, pathways and trails. Now, Penticton has a connected pedestrian network that allows the GIS team to perform advanced reporting and analysis of pedestrian assets. It didn't take long for the team to determine that state-of-the-art GIS technology was the answer to many of their challenges. They then created a five-year GIS strategy and got the City's buy-in to implement it. One of the critical aspects of this strategy was implementing Esri's Roads and Highways desktop and server tools for Penticton's land route network. To assist with accelerating projects, the City leveraged Esri technology to manage its assets and also roped in HARTerra Spatial Solutions, a company based in West Kootenays in Castlegar, to support successful implementations and ongoing use of GIS. Bus routes and related transit information is managed in Roads and Highways as linear events along a common road centreline. Bus stops are managed as point events along the routes and represent the actual location as shown to users. Using the web-based Event Editor, users can specify the start, end and attribute details for a specific section of a road or sidewalk. This simple and intuitive process eliminates the step to create, subdivide or manipulate the centreline geometry. Roads and Highways handles segmentation – merging coincident information and removing overlapping attributes that may otherwise duplicate. Compared to a traditional intersection-to-intersection model, the Roads and Highways ALRS can accurately represent the details of any construction.