ArcNews-Fall09.pdf 7/27/2009 2:14:53 PM to fix during the construction stage. GIS is extremely helpful in preventing that kind of thing from happening.” From Models to Real Life GIS has ensured that the carbon-neutral status of the city translates from a concept to design. CH2M HILL used ArcGIS to even choose where to place construction materials during the building phase. Alternative scenarios for where to place building materials could be modeled so that, in the end, the company could choose the most efficient location for reducing transportation-related carbon emissions. GIS was able to model water and power usage over a period of 10 years, plotting monthly resource demand across the city like a geographic histogram. The variables appear as different heights, allowing planners to see any issues rapidly. “This exercise immediately revealed a couple of problems with the logic that had not been easy to spot in a massive spreadsheet format,” says McElvaney. Changes happening during construction were tracked and recorded to monitor the effect on carbon neutrality. Masdar City has a team that keeps track of all fuel and material use and reuse during building. This team is also responsible for logging any environmental infractions. Team members found that using a GPS-enabled camera to take photos and transfer them to the GIS to document the location of an infraction allowed them to see what happened where and whether there were underlying trends, all of which contribute to managing the sustainability of the build. C M Y CM MY CY CMY K Government Revenue Management® 27 G I S F O R R E N E WIntroducingEThe Y A B L E E N R G Future of GIS Integration for Local Government ® In partnership with Esri, Manatron has developed a powerful solution that allows jurisdictions to predict revenue - both current and into the future. Predict revenue by mapping trends throughout your jurisdiction on the GRM dashboard. 1: Delinquent taxes for the jurisdiction are highlighted. Foreclosures are also denoted with an icon. 2: Delinquent taxes highlighted. This becomes the base map for delinquent analysis: overlaying foreclosures, water cuto s, unemployment lings, primary language spoken in the home, etc. This is all designed to analyze the e ect on the revenue stream for the city. 1 2 For more information, please visit manatron.com/grm-esri ® Innovative Transportation Masdar City will utilize breakthrough transportation technologies that revolutionize and redefine urban transport. A Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system running on solar-charged batteries will transport residents around the city. There will be 3,000 PRT vehicles, generating 130,000 trips each day across 85 stations. A Freight Rapid Transit system will make up to 5,000 trips per day to transport the city’s goods. ArcGIS was instrumental in visualizing all routes for the PRT network and testing predicted walk times between PRT stations. Transportation planners also used ArcGIS to find optimal locations for perimeter parking garages, along with effective road and rail transport routes into the city. Real estate plots were valued using routing GIS. Beyond Construction Conventional cities of similar size create approximately 1.1 million tons of CO2 per year—80 percent from buildings and energy creation, 13 percent from waste, and 7 percent from transportation. Masdar City expects to eliminate the emissions by producing zero carbons. ArcGIS will continue to be used and integrated with a computerized maintenance management system that will include the location of all infrastructure assets; gas pipes; smart grid infrastructure; clean, gray, and black water networks; and the transportation network. Moving forward, GIS will make facilities maintenance easier and enable the tracking of resource use and reuse and the overall carbon balance of the operational city. GIS will be used in city governance, where it will form part of the city’s sustainability performance feedback service, which will inform residents about their personal contribution toward overall city performance. More Information For more information, contact Derek Gliddon, Masdar’s GIS manager (e-mail: dgliddon@ masdar.ae), or Shannon McElvaney, CH2M HILL (e-mail: Shannon.McElvaney@gmail.com, tel.: 791-238-9263). Save Time, Expense & Embarrassment! Spell check your maps with... The MapSpeller 3.0 extension checks:      Map and layout annotations Table field aliases & values Legends, including layer names Grouped graphics Scale bar & text objects Professional Edition: $295 Enterprise Edition: $495 * Spell checks conventionally & spatially (patent pending) Esri trademarks provided under license from Esri ELA, volume & educational discounts available. 888-334-3832 www.Edgetech-US.com Edgetech America, Inc. Download FREE 90-Day Evaluation!