Track: New Technology and Technology Integration
Hands Free and Eyes Up: Collecting Sign Data with the Power of Speech and GPS
Erwin LehmannRobert Powell , Kirk Osborn
Austin manages an inventory of over 300,000 street signs. Public safety is a key concern for Austin's sign management team. Austin's challenge is keeping up with the City's growth while improving public safety without increasing the $1 million annual sign maintenance budget. Using a recently purchased speech recognition GPS-based product, the City has documented data collection rate increases of 600 percent while increasing accuracies from 85 percent to 98 percent. The paper will discuss the benefits of using cutting-edge field data collection technology, allowing the City to use GIS in ways that were previously unaffordable.
Erwin Lehmann
City of Austin, Texas
P.O Box 1088
4411 Meinardus, Building A
Austin, TX 78744
USA
Telephone: 512-440-8444
Fax: 512-479-8163
E-mail: lehmann_e@maxvax.ci.austin.tx.us