Oracle Spatial – A UnifyingFramework at the UtahDepartment Of Transportation

Dan PaskeUtah Department of TransportationOracle DBA

Jeff SaundersFarallon Geographics, Inc.Senior Geodatabase Developer

Today’s Goals

• UDOT background• Asset Management at UDOT• Role of Oracle Spatial• Look at the road to the future

Utah Department ofTransportation is responsible for:

Over 6,000 miles of highways Snow removal, signage, bridges, repairs,

building, and maintenance Traffic Operations – monitoring road

conditions, accidents and safety

Organization’s Strategic Goals:

• Goal 1: Take Care of What WeHave

• Goal 2: Make the System WorkBetter

• Goal 3: Improve Safety• Goal 4: Increase Capacity

MeasuringPerformance

Challenges facing UDOT:

• Effectively allocating increasinglylimited resources to deal with: Increased congestion Increased user costs Decreased economic growth and

productivity Faster deterioration of highways

Core Data

• Highway Routes LRS enabled

• Business datareferenced toroutes Assets Incidents Projects

Oracle 9i

Striping

Culverts

Signs

SnowRemoval

PavementCondition

Accident

Bridges

Ramps

VMS

VegetationManagement

Technical Requirements andBusiness Drivers

Efficiently and effectivelydeal with constituentsneeds utilizing existingapplications, skill sets,technology.

Integrate business andspatial data in the mostefficient, scalable, andopen way possible toflexibly deal with enduser needs.

ApplicationDevelopers

Provide compellingevidence of the value ofassets at specificcondition level andlocation to efficiently applylimited resources.

Need applications thatprovide advanced toolslike maps, to improveoperation andmanagement of criticalassets.

MaintenanceManagers andField Operators

Business PurposeTechnicalRequirementRole

The Technology Landscapewas:

Oracle Developer Suite

Oracle 9i/10gDatabase

Forms Reports Designer

Client Applications

ArcINFOCoveragefiles

RasterImages

ArcViewShapefiles

RasterImages

ArcIMS 4

ArcINFO 7

ArcViewShapefiles

ArcINFOCoveragefiles

RasterImages

ArcGIS 8

SQL Server

ArcSDE 8

Enterprise Business Dataand Applications

Mapping data

To visualize business data:

EnterpriseBusinessDatabase

(Oracle 9i)

Take Databasesnapshot and

extract to a file

Import into Arc/INFO or ArcView

Perform TableJoin between

shape files andextracted file

Manual

Clean upresulting event

data (ifnecessary)

Manual

Output resultinghard-copy map

or shape file

Post to ArcIMSwebsite as shape

fileManual

Man

ual

Inspection andcondition

information

Manual

End-user applications were:

Dynamic Tabular Reports and Queries

Static Image Maps

The Issues

• The storage of business data in robust,scalable RDBMS and core spatial data infiles resulted in inefficiencies in: Resources Time Scalability Security Interoperability Data Availability

Why Oracle Spatial?Technical Drivers• Flexible, open architecture• Centralized enterprise data• Scalability and security and other

traditional benefits of Oracle• Spatial business rules in the

database

Why Oracle Spatial?Organizational Drivers

• Extensive investment in Oracletechnology and resources

• Limited number of GIS experts• Primarily interested in location based

business data and applications notGIS data

TechnologyLandscapeNow

Spatially-EnabledEnterprise Database

(Oracle 9i/10g)

ArcSDE 9

ArcIMS 9

Oracle Application Server

Oracle Developer Suite

MapViewer HTML DB

WebServices

FrameworkPortal

Forms

Designer

Reports

JDeveloper

Intranet/InternetApplications

A Single StorageLocation for all UDOTcritical business data

INCLUDING SpatialData

ArcGIS 9

Open API

End-user applications are:

Dynamically generated mapbased on up-to-date assetInformation. (takingadvantage of LRS andDynamic Segmentation

Dynamic query capabilities

Dynamically generated mapbased on up-to-date assetInformation.

Single, centralized, scalablerobust data source.

The Road to the Future

• Solving collateralobjectives

• Further integrationof mainstreambusiness data withspatial data

• Applicationdevelopment usingMapViewer, HTMLDB and others

Enterprise Spatially-Enabled Database

(Oracle Spatial 10g)

PavementManagementApplications

CollisionTracking

Applications

HPMSApplications

TOCOperationsEnterpriseApplication

MFI/MMQAEnterprise

Applications

DataWarehousingApplications

OperationsEnterprise

Applications

ProjectManagementApplications

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