Transportation Expertise

Accident & Safety Management
An increasing variety of vehicular traffic including motor carriers, commercial and also personal vehicles are using the network of roads, highways and traffic junctions in Montana. It is imperative that the Montana Department of Transportation be able to implement measures to control and prevent accident along its highways and junctions.

Asset Management System
The Montana Department of Transportation, needed an information system to track the movement of fixed assets between various departmental locations, and enable the Department to control the movement of items and assets. The need was to optimize asset and inventory levels.

Congestion Management
Transportation organizations are faced with the issue of providing information necessary to assess current and future predictions of the highway system’s operational health. It is necessary for transportation planners, engineers, and program developers to determine the best course of congestion mitigation/prevention actions along the public highways.

Motor Carrier Service
The Montana Department of Transportation had developed an application to issue vehicle permits at its headquarters and weigh stations. The drawback of the application was that the updates of permits to headquarters were done in a batch mode and details of the permits were not available across the weigh stations located across Montana.

Metadata System
At the Montana Department of Transportation there are approximately 220 data related automated systems with 3,839 tables and 53,850 data elements.

The Department needed an effective solution and standard to record and retrieve metadata (data about data) along with links to electronic documents and the oracle data dictionary.

Maintenance Management System
Maintenance activities are critical to the long-term viability of transportation networks, and effective management of maintenance leads to a significant cost-savings over the life of highways, roadways and related infrastructure.

Outdoor Advertisement Control System
Outdoor advertising signs are a big business throughout the United States. Thousands of outdoor advertising signs exist in the State of Montana. These signs are in varying degrees of compliance with State laws. The Montana Department of Transportation needs to identify and track all outdoor signs on an ongoing basis to ensure compliance with State laws.

Road Reporting System
The Montana Department of Transportation needed a system to provide timely and accurate information to travelers on the road conditions and construction activities that can cause delays, lane closures, detours etc., facilities available, road and speed restrictions. This information was to made available on the Internet for easy access by the public.

Sign Inventory System
Erection of roadway information and traffic signs in any state is a huge investment not only in terms of material used but also in the manpower required to do the necessary work. The subsequent management and maintenance of these signs is also a formidable task.

The State of Montana has thousands of roadway and traffic signs across the state’s transportation network. The Department of Transportation needed a system to track the number of signs erected in the state, their locations, and when signs were removed and changed.

Transportation Integrated System
The fundamental goal of transportation is the safe, efficient, and effective movement of people and goods. The challenge is measuring whether or not this is being achieved at the national, international, state and local levels, and then developing those measures into useful information and knowledge that can be applied throughout the decision making process.