Leveraging your GIS as a Collaborative Platform

Integrating Data within Federal Lands Highway and with our Partners

—Mark Byra, Federal Highway Administration

The Federal Highway Administration, Federal Lands Highway (FLH) needed a way to combine road inventory data and GIS technology to allow easy access to reliable information for system wide analysis and reporting. Historically, road inventory data had been collected and stored centric to the FLH Division responsible. Data was stovepiped and used for condition reporting only.

With an increased need to plan for future Federal Lands usage and smarter expenditure of taxpayer funds, we needed a new, faster platform to deliver integrated transportation information to both internal and external customers.

This presentation will describe the development of our common geodatabase structure, integration within FLH, current analysis techniques and future methodologies for sharing data across government boundaries.