Project title: Right of way real property asset management architecture

Texas Transportation Institute

FHWA/TX-09/0-5788-1

Tech Report

Texas

459789748

Technical report; Sept. 2006-Aug. 2008.

Texas Transportation Institute

NTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-Land Use ; NTL-LAWS AND REGULATIONS-State Laws and Regulations ;

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is responsible for managing 1.1 million acres of land that

provide right of way for approximately 80,000 centerline miles of state-maintained roads. Management of

the huge right of way asset involves considerable resources and the integration of numerous business

processes. There is an urgent need to develop a right of way asset data architecture to facilitate the inventory

and management of TxDOT right of way assets. This architecture would facilitate the identification of

current right of way boundaries, tracking of right of way boundary changes, automatic mapping of right of

way surveying data to other layers of information such as control section job and route number locations, and

complete attribution of right of way assets. It would also simplify the production of reports, including those

needed to address financial reporting requirements.

As part of the research, the researchers evaluated current right of way data practices at TxDOT and other

agencies, and developed and tested a prototype geographic information system (GIS)-based right of way

asset data model. The data model included a logical model, a physical model, and data dictionary, following

current TxDOT data architecture standards and findings from recent research and implementation projects.

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