Managing Transportation Asset Data Collection During Covid-19: The Origin of NYC DOT's Spatial Data Gathering Program

The New York City Department of Transportation’s (NYCDOT) Spatial Data Gathering Program (SDG) is an initiative that sought to address several issues, including providing employees with relevant work that could be done at home during the COVID pandemic. This program provided NYCDOT with greatly needed spatial data on assets which would cost many hundreds of thousands of dollars to obtain if the work was contracted to a consultant—money that, due to the pandemic, was now scarce. The following pages describe a high-level overview of the methods involved in creating and sustaining the program, the metrics tracking the progress of the individual projects, and the lessons that were learned along the way. In sum, this program was able to train in-house resources that were working from home, as well as interns, to capture spatial data on the location and attributes of assets using web-based imagery and applications for both communication and the exchange of data.

• Record URL:
  • https://annualmeeting.mytrb.org/OnlineProgram/Details/17241
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AJE30 Standing Committee on Transportation Asset Management. Alternate title: Managing Transportation Asset Data Collection During COVID-19: The Origin of the New York City Department of Transportation's Spatial Data Gathering Program
• Authors:
  • Romano, Maddalena
  • 0000-0002-2907-050X
  • Rodriguez, Maria
  • Souza, Marvin
  • Chan, Hui Yan (Terri)
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 101st Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2022-1-9 to 2022-1-13
• Date: 2022

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 13p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Asset management; COVID-19; Data collection; Geographic information systems; Geospatial data; Telecommuting
• Identifier Terms: New York City Department of Transportation
• Geographic Terms: New York (New York)
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01857957
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: TRBAM-22-01106
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Sep 19 2022 5:02PM