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1 Practice: GIS Database for Urban Transportation Planning
Subject Areas: Operations
Planning
State: Oregon
Organization: Portland Metro
Contact: Steve Perone
Title: Senior Transportation Planner
Email: perones@metro.dst.or.us
Phone: (503) 797-1771
Description: Portland Metro is one of the leading users of GIS in transportation planning. GIS is used in a wide range of activities including collating data inputs to the travel-forecasting model, performing spatial analyses, and displaying model outputs on Metro's base map. Metro is demonstrating how GIS can enhance travel forecasting modeling methods and techniques utilized in transportation and regional planning.
Related Documentation: https://gis.dot.state.oh.us/tims
   
2 Practice: Interactive Transit System Map
Subject Area: Operations
State: Oregon
City: Portland
Organization: Portland Tri-Met
Contact: Bibiana Kamler
Email: kamlerb@trimet.org
Phone: 503-962-7536
Description: Tri-Met GIS has developed an internet mapping application that allows customers to access detailed transit information including aerial views, route maps, Park and Ride lot locations, fare zones, and next arrival times for buses.
  Image: Portland Tri-Met System Map  Portland Tri-Met System  
Related Documentation: https://ride.trimet.org/#/
   
3 Practice: ODOT Project Tracking
Subject Area: Asset Management
State: Oregon
Organization: Oregon Department of Transportation
Contact: Ryan Johnson
Email: Ryan.R.Johnson@odot.state.or.us
Phone: 503-986-3162
Description: The Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) is the Oregon Department of Transportation's four-year capital improvement program. It is not a planning document, but a project scheduling and funding program. Projects in the STIP come from data-based transportation management systems and planning processes involving local and regional governments, Area Commissions on Transportation (ACTs), other state agencies, and the public. In the STIP, ODOT assigns resources to those projects that have been given the highest priority through the STIP update process.
Related Documentation: https://gis.odot.state.or.us/tpt/
   
4 Practice: Oregon Department of Transportation's Fish Friendly Maintenance Practices
Subject Areas: Environment
Maintenance
State: Oregon
Organization: Oregon Department of Transportation
Contact: Philip Smith
Title: Environmental GIS Program Manager
Email: Philip.L.Smith@odot.state.or.us
Phone: 503-986-3733
Description: The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) has developed a geographic information system (GIS)-based sensitive resource inventory along nearly 6,000 miles of state highway as part of its Salmon Resources and Sensitive Area Mapping Project. The primary purpose of the project is to provide accurate resource protection maps to roadway maintenance crews so that mowing, pesticide application, and other activities do not harm salmon species and other sensitive resources. The comprehensive resource inventory was initially developed by using color infrared digital imagery with 2-foot resolution. Other sensitive resource features were recorded from current knowledge bases and limited roadside surveying, and from modeling of interactions between multiple resources and data layers. Products have included resource maps in 0.01-mile segments, which indicate where sensitive resources are present (including which side of the road). ODOT has supplied these maps to all districts for use by biologists, planners, and maintenance managers. Restricted Activity Zones for maintenance are denoted along a horizontal straightline as a simple color-coding scheme of green, amber and red to indicate, for each major class of maintenance activity (e.g., surface and shoulder work, vegetation management, snow and ice removal, etc.), whether or not that activity should be cautioned or restricted along the left or right side of a given 0.01-mile segment of highway. The library of GIS data resulting from the project has given ODOT's regional staff a detailed environmental inventory of ecological resources, facilitating consideration of sensitive natural resource features when planning and designing transportation system improvements. The project's related maps, GPS and web applications have proven to be reliable project scoping tools to help avoid impacting sensitive resources including streams, wetlands, or rare plant populations. Project data has remained current through subsequent remapping of the best available imagery, shared interagency datasets, layout and application refinement, and ongoing communication with participating staff.
   
5 Practice: Oregon Department of Transportation's Oregon Coordinate Reference System (OCRS)
Subject Area: Operations
State: Oregon
Organization: Oregon Department of Transportation
Contact: Chris Wright
Title: Senior GIS Analyst
Email: Chris.Wright@odot.state.or.us
Phone: 503-986-3726
Description: Modern GIS and surveying software now brings the opportunity to create low distortion map projections and coordinate systems that can relate closely to distances measured on the ground. The function of low distortion projections is to minimize the distortion of distances, areas and to a lesser extent azimuths and angles. This web application provides users with an interactive method of selecting the most appropriate Oregon Coordinate Reference System (OCRS) low distortion projection for their project area using the new ODOT standard methodology and thereby improve land survey efficiencies across ODOT construction efforts. Current project enhancements include the Oregon Real-Time GPS (ORGN) locator tool, a web utility for displaying ORGN station locations, status, and hyperlinks to station owner (ODOT or other) websites. Specialized administrative tools will be used to update station and polygon status and edit stations within the geographic network.
Related Documentation: https://gis.odot.state.or.us/geometronicsonlinetoolkit/
   
6 Practice: Oregon Regional Land Information System (RLIS)
Subject Areas: Planning
PEL
State: Oregon
Organization: Portland Metro
Contact: Data Resource Center 
Title:
Email: drc@oregonmetro.gov
Phone: 503-797-1742
Description: RLIS is a clearinghouse of regional geospatial data used for land use and transportation planning. Users include municipalities, counties, developers, and consultants; the public has free access to a web-mapping component of RLIS, RLIS Live. This web-mapping component delivers more than 100 GIS map layers for the region through online download and web services - available to subscribers anywhere with Internet access (available at https://www.oregonmetro.gov/tools-partners/data-resource-center).
   
7 Practice: TransGIS- Standard Model and Interface for numerous GIS web applications
Subject Areas: Asset Management
Environment
Maintenance
Operations
Planning
State: Oregon
Organization: Oregon Department of Transportation
Contact: Ryan Johnson
Email: Ryan.R.Johnson@odot.state.or.us
Phone: 503-986-3162
Description: TransGIS is a powerful web mapping tool designed for users of every skill level. TransGIS presents many levels of complex data in an interactive map format offering multi-level views of Oregon's transportation system needs and accomplishments. Detailed information including transportation management system's data, asset inventory, Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) projects, and environmental data are accessible for analysis, planning, and research needs. By offering this quick and integrated access to the many data resources available, TransGIS enhances ODOT's ability to address agency needs and goals. TransGIS serves as the standard foundation for ODOT web mapping applications and is flexible and adaptable to specific needs for mapping and analysis.
Related Documentation: https://gis.odot.state.or.us/transgis/
   
8 Practice: Transportation Planning Online Database (TPOD)
Subject Area: Planning
State: Oregon
Organization: Oregon Department of Transportation
Contact: Robin Marshburn
Email: Robin.L.Marshburn@odot.state.or.us
Phone: 503-986-3696
Description: Transportation Planning Online Database (TPOD) is an ODOT web-based GIS tool with document links to Transportation System Plans (TSPs) and transportation facility plans. With this tool, users can query a polygon on a GIS map and see a pop-up of all the related transportation planning documents. The user can read and/or print the document, do a search for a key word, or save the document on their computer.
Related Documentation: https://gis.odot.state.or.us/tpod/
   
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