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Title: SPATIAL DATA TECHNOLOGIES
Accession Number: 00784471
Record Type: Component
Digital Copy: Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: The efficient planning, construction, and operation of transportation facilities depend on access to the right spatial data, in the right format, and at the right time. The provision of spatial data has undergone a series of profound technological changes. Already being used for precisely mapping facilities, counting cars, or locating accidents, new spatial data technologies have become a fundamental component of the transportation information system. Such applications are enabling transportation professionals to function more effectively by allowing them to make decisions more quickly and with better data. Changes in spatial data capabilities are continuing at a rapid pace. Methods for the collection and use of the data are being defined largely by the convergence of a number of widely used technologies, such as the Global Positioning System, geographic information system technologies, and the Internet. The new millennium will herald an era of spatially referenced data that are not merely a little better than those presently available, but much better. These advances are coming at a very important time for many transportation agencies. This will be an era of multidisciplinary teams and integrated technologies. The anticipated advances offer the promise of enabling the transportation community to evolve into a cross-agency enterprise through the power of accurate, timely information. This article concludes with some visions of how spatial information might be used by transportation professionals in the year 2010.
Supplemental Notes: Page range: pp 15-18, 37.
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Turner, A KBespalko, S JPagination: 5 p.
Publication Date: 1999-11
Serial: Features: Figures
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TRT Terms: Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Feb 4 2000 12:00AM
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