Project Profile
Transportation-Focused Enterprise GIS Strategic Planning
Client:
Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT)
Location:
Statewide, Virginia
The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) contracted with Timmons Group to review their GIS strategic direction for the upcoming years and looks to integrate newer technologies such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and web services. The end goal of this project is to strategically position VDOT to better their data and more rapidly turn data into information and solutions from which intelligent decisions can be made.
This project will define short and long-term operational and strategic actions and associated deliverables to meet the overriding vision of streamlined data availability and information delivery. To meet these objectives, Timmons Group will deploy technical, operational, and management consulting expertise to address the following functional areas at all levels of VDOT’s GIS user community:
- Data Requirements/Management; including Metadata Standards/Change Management, Data Collection/Development Standards, and Data Maintenance/Synchronization
- Web/Map Service Requirements; including Map Services; Web Services, and Web Services Management/Enterprise Services Bus (ESB) Technologies Application
- Discovery/Requirements (Custom/COTS) review and recommendations; including In-house (desktop, Internet), Mobile, Existing COTS, and New Applications Identification an Functional Requirements Scoping
- Governance/Organizational Structure Review; including Committee and workgroup structure, Services; Data, Applications, Business Process Definition/Chain-of-custody, Change Management, and Public Relations/Outreach/Training/Support
- Best Practices Due-diligence; including peer review and identification of best practice agencies within the DOT community.
- Consulting Skills Required
- Strategic Planning/Needs Assessment
- Business Process Refinement
- Application Architecture Experience
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) knowledge
- GIS/Geospatial Applications Expertise
Project Profile
ESRI ArcGIS Mobile Solutions
Client:
Virginia Department of Transportation
Location:
Statewide, Virginia
Timmons Group has contracted with the Virginia Department of Transportation to develop ArcGIS Mobile solutions for Environmental and Transportation business needs. VDOT, as a part of their planning, construction and maintenance process, must carefully track their wetland remediation sites to ensure compliance with the appropriate state and federal regulations. The ArcGIS Mobile Solutions will enable VDOT’s mobile workforce to be more productive and collect more accurate and timely information to support VDOT’s mission.
Timmons Group will be expanding the number of applications to include HAZMAT, Cultural and Natural Resources, and Noise features in the near future. The ArcGIS Mobile solution includes workflows to support field data capture by VDOT Environmental staff and will leverage ArcGIS Server Replication to their Enterprise GIS database.
This solution employs the latest technologies from both Microsoft and ESRI including SQL Server Compact, the Synch Framework API, and ArcGIS Mobile. VDOT’s Environmental Division will ultimately deploy 12 Trimble GeoXT devices within the coming year.