Analysis and integration of spatial data for transportation planning.

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• Creators:
  Quiroga, Cesar ; Li, Yingfeng ; Koncz, Nicholas ; Overman, John
• Corporate Creators:
  Texas Transportation Institute
• Corporate Contributors:
  Texas. Dept. of Transportation ; United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Electronic Data Processing Geographic Information Systems Highway Planning Information Processing Information Storage And Retrieval Systems Roads
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/TX-09/0-5696-1
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Texas
• Edition:
  Technical Report: Sept. 2006-Aug. 2008
• Corporate Publisher:
  Texas Transportation Institute
• Abstract:
  Transportation planning requires substantial amounts of data and cooperation among transportation planning
  
  agencies. Advances in computer technology and the increasing availability of geographic information
  
  systems (GIS) are giving transportation planners the ability to develop and use data with a much higher
  
  degree of efficiency. However, as information systems advance, the need to provide effective data
  
  integration/exchange protocols and procedures to reduce redundancy and data collection costs is becoming
  
  more important. Many factors influence the effectiveness of data exchange and data integration efforts, such
  
  as data compatibility, data access, data quality, completeness, metadata, hardware, software, and staff
  
  expertise. This research resulted in a catalog of spatial data sources available to transportation planning
  
  agencies in Texas. The work included a synthesis of current transportation planning practices in Texas with
  
  a focus on spatial data integration and exchange issues, meetings with transportation planning and data
  
  stakeholders, the development of a map of data sources, the development of a preliminary logical data model
  
  of spatial data entities, and a compilation of metadata documents for a sample of data sources. Developing
  
  the catalog of categories and subcategories for transportation planning spatial data was an iterative process
  
  that involved several rounds of data entity categorization; analysis of the resulting structure for
  
  inconsistencies, gaps, and redundancies; and subsequent changes to the data entity categorization scheme. In
  
  the end, the three-level grouping structure resulted in 7 categories, 63 subcategories, and 589 spatial data
  
  entities. The research also resulted in a prototype web-based map and metadata viewer called Transportation
  
  Planning GIS (TPGIS) Data Viewer.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  0-5696
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:a6c9286b894417cbd0ba512fbfdc498ac3702b8c5cd93bcce6464cf1fd0ff94d
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/5662/dot_5662_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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