ENTERPRISE GIS FRAMEWORK

Ian Kidner, GISPGIS Systems Administrator

Office of Technical Services

Agenda

• Why TIMS• What is TIMS• Agency Processes• Benefits• Questions

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Why TIMS

ODOT Mission

To provide easy movement of people and goods from place to place, we will:

• Take care of what we have• Make our system better• Improve safety• Enhance capacity

ODOT Vision

A long-term, reliable, professional, and highly productive organization

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Enterprise GIS Strategy

GIS Program Objectives

• Provide geospatial solutions to streamline workflow processes• Provide leadership for organizing and accessing data• Provide solutions which are responsive to changing needs• Provide standards for uniform database structures• Departmental policy for implementing GIS program objectives

Centralized Data

• Roads & Highways• Data governance

Asset Management

• Collector• Cross-agency processes

Customer Service

• Align with business • User-friendly solutions

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Enterprise GIS Strategy

GIS Program Objectives

• Provide geospatial solutions to streamline workflow processes• Provide leadership for organizing and accessing data• Provide solutions which are responsive to changing needs• Provide standards for uniform database structures• Departmental policy for implementing GIS program objectives

Centralized Data

• Roads & Highways• Data governance

Asset Management

• Collector• Cross-agency processes

Customer Service

• Align with business • User-friendly solutions

TIMS VisionProvide Easy & Reliable Access to Information

Data Consistency Enables Decision Making Transparency

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TIMS Customers

ODOT Local Governments

Business Partners

Research Partners

General Public

Private Economic Interests

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• RFI/RFP/Dev 8/11 – 3/13• Released Spring ‘13• Flex, ArcServer 10.0• Decommissioned April ‘15

TIMS Program HistoryPhase I: 2011 - 2015

Pros:• Provided data access• Provided analysis tools• Provided LRS tools

Areas for Improvement• User experience could be

better (partly technology limitations at time)

• Difficulty updating system

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• Released 2/15• HTML5/Javascript/Leaflet• ArcServer 10.2, SOE• Mobile Access

TIMS Program HistoryPhase 2: 2014 - Present

Pros:• Expanded Site• Improved User Experience• Better Site Management

Areas for Improvement• Increased workflow

alignment• Difficult balancing range of

user needs

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TIMS Site AreasSearch for transportation project information.

View and search ODOT transportation data and create custom maps.

Download geodata by country, district or state.

Generate maps with specific layouts and formats.

Access interactive maps by content focus.

Search for and view dataset and field descriptions.

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Project Search

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Project Information

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Interactive MapMap Tool Menus

Configure Map Tools

View data records in table

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Map Tool Menus

Map Layers

Find Location

Identify

Tools (Measure, Pathweb)

Filter Data

Add Data To Map

Basemaps

Print Map

Share Map

Resize Map

Window

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Filter Data in the Map

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Phone App• Does not require app download• Navigate to same web address using

smartphone web-browser• Site automatically directs to

appropriate application based on device type

• Leaflet API

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Phone App

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Phone App

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Current DatasetsAviation Facilities Noisewall Inventory State Mileposts

BMP Inventory NRCS HUC 10 STS Active Rail Lines

Bridge Inventory NRCS HUC 11 STS Airports

Bridge Maintenance Restrictions NRCS HUC 12 STS AMTRAK out of State Rail Lines

Cities NRCS HUC 14 STS Amtrak Passenger Terminals

Coastal Management Areas NRCS HUC 8 STS AOSTS Regions

Counties ODOT Districts STS Bike Routes

County Mileposts ODOT Facilities STS Freeway Systems

Culvert Inventory OFS Outfalls STS Go Bus Stop

Ellis Lines Ohio State House Districts STS Highway

Ellis Points Ohio State Senate Districts STS National Transit

EPA Ecological Regions Patrol Outposts STS Rail Corridors

Facilities Improvements Pavement Condition Ratings STS Railroad

FEMA Floodplains Pile Driving Restrictions STS Water State Corridors

Fill Restrictions Places STS Waterports

Herbicide Restrictions Railroad Inventory STS Waterways

Historic Bridge Inventory Regional Supplemental Boundaries Townships

Intermodal Connectors Road Inventory Traffic AADT

Intermodal Facilities Road Inventory Rail Crossing Points Traffic Count Stations

Maintenance Restrictions Rural Islands Tree Clearing Restrictions

Metropolitan Planning Organizations Rural Planning Organizations Urban Areas

Mowing Restrictions Safety Barrier Inventory US House Districts

National Landcover Database Scenic Rivers

National Wetland Inventory Snow and Ice Priority RoutesAvailable as WMS & WFS

http://odotgis.dot.state.oh.us/arcgis/rest

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Big IP Load Balancer

ArchitectureESRI Basemaps OIT Geocoder Service

Imagery Basemaps

ETL ServerArcServer 10.2

Oracle

SQL Server

Sybase

AccessSQL Server 2012

SDESDE

Application Web ServersIIS7; VmWare Vsphere 5.1; 1 Intel Xeon CPU

E5540 @ 2.53 GHz ; 2GB RAMArcGIS Web Adaptor

Map Services ArcServer 10.2Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

VmWare Vsphere 5.1; 2 Intel Xeon CPU E5540 @ 2.53 GHz; 16 GB RAM

DMZ

External

Internal

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Total Hits

System Performance

Site Traffic Analysis: 2/1/15 – 6/12/15

328,554

Average Page Views Per Day1,963

Average Length of Visit24 min

Visitor Repeat Rate59% Average RAM utilization(ArcServer Map Services)42%

Average RAM utilization(Application Server)25%

Average response time< 1 s

Average CPU utilization20%

May 2015 Server Performance Reports

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TIMS Staffing

These figures represent commitmentduring system development; figuresfor system operation & maintenanceare lower

Position FTEProject Manager 0.1Technical Lead 0.8Software Developer 0.8Analyst 0.3QA 0.1

Total 2.1

Application Vendor Staff

Area Position FTEPlanning ODOT System Admin 0.6Planning GIS DB Admin 0.5Planning GIS Technicians 0.1Planning Project Manager 0.3Planning Business Analyst 0.2

IT IT GIS Admin 0.5IT IT Server Admin 0.25IT QA 0.5IT Data Analyst 1IT DBA (ETL Dev) 0.4IT DBA (admin) 0.1

Planning/IT Project Sponsors 0.05Total 4.5

ODOT Staff

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Agency Processes & TIMS

Asset Management Leadership Team

TAM Audit Group

Technology Council

Standardized Data

TIMS

Iterative Processes

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TIMS Functionality

Simple Analytical Functions

Customers Want More

Customer Self-Service

Better Decision Making/Planning

Manage Expectations

Workflow Focused Apps?

How many apps is that?

AGO/other COTS?

Looking at integrating where

appropriate

Lack of transportation specific tools

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TIMS Data Access

Easy Data Access Errors in Data!

Pressure Data Owners to Clean

Up Source

Leverage TIMS to refine business

processes

TIMS helps ODOT as an agency better understand how information is used

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Ian Kidner, GISPGIMS Systems AdministratorOffice of Technical Services

http://gis.dot.state.oh.us/timsian.kidner@dot.state.oh.us

614-752-5743