Works Consulting to aid ADOT during delivery of new photo logging vehicle

January 24, 2000 -- Phoenix Arizona -- Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) has announced that Works Consulting (www.gisworks.com) will continue to assist the ADOT Data Section during the continuing acquisition of a new vehicle for photographing ADOT highways.  Works Consulting, under a previous subcontract to Lee Engineering (www.leeengineering.com) guided ADOT through the specification writing and selection of a vendor.

The photo logging project delivers electronic images of Arizona highways at intervals of 1/100th of a mile in each direction.  The current system has been generating electronic images since 1991.  It is near the end of it's useful life as contemporary technology and improvements in efficiency will highlight the replacement vehicle.  The selected vendor of the new vehicle is a joint venture of Trigg Industries (www.triggind.com) and the Australian Road Research Board (www.arrb.org.au).  The vehicle will be outfitted in Los Angeles and delivered to ADOT by the end of April.

The new vehicle will be equipped with linear referencing technology compliant with ADOT's Arizona Transportation Information System (ATIS) geographic information system.  This will streamline the viewing of highway characteristics and allow for continued feature inventory capabilities on all ADOT desktops.  Other enhancements in efficiency will effectively reduce the required staffing of the vehicle by 50%.  This will enable existing ADOT staff to be available for other high-demand data collection activities.

The effort reflects ADOT's ongoing determination to provide valid information to support the transportation planning and decision-making process.

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