National Highway Authority of India’s Road Information System

8 February 2012 Geoff Zeiss

I blogged previously about the Reports for decision making Impact of available budget on NH performance Sub network budget allocations Optima budget – head allocations Optimized multi-year work programme Budget allocation by work type Budegt allocation by State/CMU NPV vs budget Roughness vs budget Road Information System (RIS) developed to assist in monitoring and managing information about the highway system known as the Golden Quadrialteral connecting Kolkata, Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi.  The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) is an autonomous organization responsible not only for the development, but also the management and maintenance of national highways in India.  RIS was developed for the NHAI by CES Technologies.

DSC09225abRoad Information System

NHAI’s Road Information System (RIS) is a web-based geospatially-enabled system that integrates a linear referencing system for tracking the condition of pavement and geospatial data and analysis.  RIS contains data about the highways included in the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ), North-South (NS) and East-West (EW) corridors of the National Highways Development Project (NHDP) which was initiated in 1998.  RIS is a comprehensive highway management system which included linear referencing, asset management, pavement management, traffic information, bridge monitoring, environmental information, toll management, document management, accident infomration, contract database, and HDM-4, an industry standard economic analysis package.  HDM-4 provides tools for estimating funding requirements, budget allocations, predicting road network performance, and assessing policy impacts.

DSC09233abDecision making

RIS includes tools for decision making including Impact of available budget on highways performance that allows the NHAI to estimate the trade-off between maintenance and “roughness” or road condition.  The decision support tools also assist the NHAI in allocating funds to sub networks, optimzing multi-year work programs, and various budget reporting including breakdowns by work type and State and CMU.

Geoff Zeiss

Geoff Zeiss

Geoff Zeiss has more than 20 years experience in the geospatial software industry and 15 years experience developing enterprise geospatial solutions for the utilities, communications, and public works industries. His particular interests include the convergence of BIM, CAD, geospatial, and 3D. In recognition of his efforts to evangelize geospatial in vertical industries such as utilities and construction, Geoff received the Geospatial Ambassador Award at Geospatial World Forum 2014. Currently Geoff is Principal at Between the Poles, a thought leadership consulting firm. From 2001 to 2012 Geoff was Director of Utility Industry Program at Autodesk Inc, where he was responsible for thought leadership for the utility industry program. From 1999 to 2001 he was Director of Enterprise Software Development at Autodesk. He received one of ten annual global technology awards in 2004 from Oracle Corporation for technical innovation and leadership in the use of Oracle. Prior to Autodesk Geoff was Director of Product Development at VISION* Solutions. VISION* Solutions is credited with pioneering relational spatial data management, CAD/GIS integration, and long transactions (data versioning) in the utility, communications, and public works industries. Geoff is a frequent speaker at geospatial and utility events around the world including Geospatial World Forum, Where 2.0, MundoGeo Connect (Brazil), Middle East Spatial Geospatial Forum, India Geospatial Forum, Location Intelligence, Asia Geospatial Forum, and GITA events in US, Japan and Australia. Geoff received Speaker Excellence Awards at GITA 2007-2009.

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