Designing Geodatabases for Transportation

by J. Allison Butler

Overview

Designing Geodatabases for Transportation addresses the construction of a GIS to manage data describing the transportation facilities and services commonly organized around various modes of travel. Although details of each mode can be quite different, this book demonstrates how all modes of travel follow a basic conceptual structure consisting of an origin, a destination, a path between the two, and a conveyance that provides the abillity to move along the path. Designing Geodatabases for Transportation explains best practices for building and implementing geodatabases for transportation in a manner that enables flexibility and use by multiple parties, and provides solutions for existing problems created by unsystematic design.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781589482913
Publisher:	Esri Press
Publication date:	08/28/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	250
File size:	35 MB
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About the Author

J. Allison Butler has worked in a range of local, regional, and state transportation agencies during a thirty year career. The author of more than seventy-five professionally published works, Butler has been a consistent innovator in such fields as spatial database design, traffic engineering, planning policy, and economic development. He is a frequent conference speaker and workshop instructor on a number of topics, including highway safety, geodatabase design, agency management, and land-use planning.

Table of Contents

Foreword Preface Acknowledgments About the author Chapter 1 Introduction Part I Basic geodatabase design concepts Chapter 2 Data modeling Chapter 3 Geodatabases Chapter 4 Best practices in transportation database design Chapter 5 Geometric networks Part 2 Understanding transportation geodatabase design issues Chapter 6 Data editing Chapter 7 Linear referencing methods Chapter 8 Advanced dynamic segmentation functions Chapter 9 Traffic monitoring systems Chapter 10 Classic transportation data models Chapter 11 The original UNETRANS data model Part 3 Enterprise-level solutions and modal data models Chapter 12 Improving the UNETRANS data model Chapter 13 The revised UNETRANS network data model Chapter 14 State DOT highway inventory: Editing Chapter 15 State DOT highway inventory: Publishing Chapter 16 A multipurpose transit geodatabase Chapter 17 Navigable waterways Chapter 18 Railroads Final thoughts Index