GIS IN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND OPERATIONS. PART TWO

The first part of this article examined the usefulness of spatially-integrated data to transportation and clarified the difference between geographical information systems (GISs) and other database systems using spatial data. GIS benefits were summarized and examples of GIS activities at the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and state highway agencies were described. This part (Part 2) covers further applications of GIS to transportation and provides sources for digital geocoded data. It then concludes with a discussion of hardware and software requirements, topology, overlay processing, and those special issues involved when designing a GIS for transportation applications.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Public Works Journal Corporation

  200 South Broad Street
  Ridgewood, NJ  United States  07451
• Authors:
  • Simkowitz, H J
• Publication Date: 1989-8

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 59-62
• Serial:
  • Public Works
  • Volume: 120
  • Issue Number: 9
  • Publisher: Hanley Wood
  • ISSN: 0033-3840
  • Serial URL: http://www.pwmag.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Applications; Data collection; Geographic information systems; Software; Spatial analysis; Topology; Traffic distribution; Transportation planning
• Uncontrolled Terms: Data sources; Hardware
• Old TRIS Terms: Geographical information systems
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Research; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00486275
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 31 1989 12:00AM