SpatialNews Press Release
TRANSMAP® Corporation Completes Street Infrastructure Survey in Record
Time
COLUMBUS, OHIO-After only ten months of work, TRANSMAP Corporation, a
leading GIS and asset management systems developer, successfully completed a
comprehensive roadway infrastructure survey project for Hillsborough County, Florida-
a project that would have taken three times as long if traditional surveying methods had
been used. “In order to complete this project in just ten months, we had to rely on
automation,” explains Dr. Kurt Novak, TRANSMAP president. “The ON-SIGHT mobile
mapping system and our automated data processing system allowed us to reduce data
collection and integration significantly.”
Using vans equipped with four digital cameras, a Global Positional System (GPS)
receiver, and an inertial navigation system, TRANSMAP field engineers drove all of
Hillsborough County’s 3,000 centerline miles in both directions, taking snapshots of
roadside attributes every 35 feet to provide 360° coverage. Not only were these assets
precisely located to sub-meter accuracy, but data was also provided on their condition,
with technicians assigning them a rating of good, fair, or poor.
During the course of the mapping project, more than half a million assets were
inventoried. TRANSMAP partnered with two other firms-the engineering firm of
Cumbey & Fair, of Clearwater, FL, and Infrastructure Management Services of Arlington
Heights, IL-to provide a complete picture of county assets and integrate that data into
Hillsborough’s Hansen’s Roadway Module asset management software.
Rob Little, Hillsborough County Project Manager, explains that inventory and condition
assessment data was extracted on more than 15,000 intersections, 20,000 miles of linear
assets, and 373,000 point assets such as traffic signs, manholes, and storm drains. “We
didn’t have any idea before this project what the real numbers were like,” says Little.
“TRANSMAP is, in many respects, ahead of its time in developing and implementing a
cost-effective method for gathering a tremendous amount of data about our roadways in a
short period of time.”
Hillsborough County officials became aware of the need for a precise inventory of
infrastructure assets when they reflected on the unprecedented growth and expansion the
county has enjoyed over the last ten years. In addition, a relatively new infrastructure
reporting requirement instituted by the Government Accounting Standard Bureau, known
as GASB 34, mandates that state and local governments begin to report the present and
anticipated value of all infrastructure assets, including roads, bridges, and water and
sewer facilities.
Bernardo Garcia, Public Works Director for Hillsborough County, decided to take a
proactive approach and implement an asset management system that would enable county
officials to keep up with infrastructure maintenance, repair, and replacement. He is
already realizing appreciable benefits from the implementation of the system: “This
system will allow us to achieve a high return on our annual maintenance investments.”
TRANSMAP, based in Columbus, Ohio, specializes in digital geographic information
collection and integration. It provides data management solutions to customers in city,
county, state and federal government through its high-quality digital imaging and
database development and enhancement capabilities. For more information, contact
TRANSMAP: 1275 Kinnear Road, Columbus, OH, 43212, tel.: (614) 487-3636, fax:
(614) 487-3704. Visit the TRANSMAP website at www.transmap.com or email
info@transmap.com
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