{"id":543822,"date":"2022-10-14T15:06:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcwatch&p=543822"},"modified":"2022-10-14T15:06:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:06:01","slug":"the-road-ahead-for-nevada-department-of-transportation","status":"publish","type":"arcwatch","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcwatch\/the-road-ahead-for-nevada-department-of-transportation","title":{"rendered":"The Road Ahead for Nevada Department of Transportation"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8132,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[383342,401],"tags":[170662,482102,481992,482092,7142],"arcwatch_issues":[481862],"class_list":["post-543822","arcwatch","type-arcwatch","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arcgis-hub-2","category-government","tag-arcgis-hub","tag-ndot","tag-public-transit","tag-timmons-group","tag-transportation","arcwatch_issues-october-2022"],"acf":{"short_description":"With ArcGIS Hub, the Nevada Department of Transportation has built a new, public-facing website to make its geospatial data accessible for all. ","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"The Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) oversees 5,400 miles of highway and over 1,000 bridges, and is responsible for the planning, construction, operation, and maintenance of the state highway system. Given the breadth of this infrastructure, collecting data, and communicating information to the public about the state\u2019s roads and bridges is critical to NDOT\u2019s mission.\r\n\r\nHowever, until recently, the state lacked a comprehensive, public-facing method of communicating geospatial data about its highway system, including traffic records and road ownership.\u00a0 \u201cIt was the wild west of sharing data,\u201d said Chad Foster, GIS analyst in NDOT\u2019s IT division. \u201cSome divisions were placing static copies of data on their respective web pages and some divisions were still handling GIS data requests manually. There were no standards or organization.\u201d\r\n\r\nTo correct this, NDOT tasked the engineering and technology firm Timmons Group<\/a> with updating the department's GIS platform.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe organization found itself sharing many datasets and GIS-related files to the public, but in a way that was less than ideal,\u201d said Brian Kingery, GIS solutions architect for Timmons Group. \u201cThey needed a path forward to publicize authoritative and up-to-date content about their data and initiatives.\u201d\r\n\r\nMatt McCracken, geospatial transportation lead at Timmons Group, noted that while certain datasets were available on NDOT\u2019s agency website, the data might be available for download in wildly different formats, some of which could be challenging for users without GIS experience. \u201cThere was just no conformity across the agency,\u201d he added. \u201cWe needed a way to share our data with the public without creating a burden on GIS data stewards.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":543882,"image_position":"left","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"To create a sense of cohesion and openness in a platform meant to be easily accessible for all, Timmons Group turned to ArcGIS Hub, a cloud-based offering for data organization made to facilitate exactly the kind of modernization NDOT\u2019s platform needed.\r\n\r\nConstructing the NDOT GeoHub<\/strong>\r\n\r\nBeginning in April 2020, when NDOT identified the need for an updated GIS portal, Timmons Group\u2019s GIS transportation team built the framework of a website based on NDOT\u2019s original execution.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe wanted to create an interactive, ArcGIS-based website connected directly to authoritative content the NDOT staff is curating,\u201d said Kingery.\r\n\r\nThe answer was the NDOT GeoHub<\/a>, a public-facing website that showcases the agency\u2019s content to a variety of users, including stakeholders, private residents, and NDOT partners.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe main task was to come up with a solution that would allow for content to be shared to the public,\u201d Kingery added. \u201cWorking with the IT team at NDOT, we provided a way for authoritative content to be curated by various workgroups internally while providing the data pipeline to share that content to the public.\u201d\r\n\r\nPlenty of information existed on NDOT\u2019s original platform, so sifting through data to determine what should migrate to the new site was crucial to give all users access to up-to-date data and information. The IT division held meetings with data owners, stewards, and management across NDOT divisions to introduce the idea of sharing content with the public through an internal portal environment. Individual divisions would manage the language, while the IT division would control the data and content."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":543892,"image_position":"left","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"To flesh out the website, the team established specific categories for sitewide data. NDOT staff and their data providers developed the data in each category as a means for sharing common transportation-themed GIS information for all site visitors. Boundaries, districts, environmental, infrastructure, and other data categories are listed on the home page of the GeoHub for ease of access and transparency. Each category allows users to further refine the data with filters like layers, document type, tags, and date uploaded or modified.\r\n\r\n\u201cYou can download key datasets that NDOT wanted to showcase,\u201d said Kingery. The GeoHub also includes road maps, dashboards, and ArcGIS StoryMaps stories, all directly from the agency. \u201cAnd in this application, they are fully interactive,\u201d he added.\r\n\r\nGeospatial Benefits for All<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe site represents NDOT\u2019s mission of coordinating, guiding, and assisting the development of GIS technology for the agency through up-to-date content and ease of accessibility for consumers. Equally important, however, was ease of use for NDOT staff interacting with their agency\u2019s data.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe wanted to empower the NDOT IT division to be able to be advocates and act as the webmasters for this website,\u201d said Kingery. \u201cThat way they can connect with division representatives to assist in the curation and promotion of content.\u201d\r\n\r\nIn addition to NDOT\u2019s data, users can engage with GIS support staff for each division of NDOT. NDOT staff, Nevada residents, and partners alike can conduct their own research within each division. \u201cOur goal is to have every division represented on our GeoHub,\u201d said Foster.\r\n\r\nNDOT divisions whose data is not fully integrated in the GeoHub are represented by placeholder links, so users are aware of what information is to come."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":543902,"image_position":"left","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"\u201cBeing able to have those tools at your hands takes the burden off NDOT staff to fulfill potentially hundreds of requests for data,\u201d Kingery said. \u201cWhen a user can go to the website regardless of their intent and have open searchability and discover the data to help answer their own questions\u2014that helps the agency\u2019s staff.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe nearly 100 pages\u2014and growing\u2014that comprise the NDOT GeoHub promote transparency for the public, staff, and NDOT stakeholders, leading to more deliberate interactions with the people most affected by the data. Any individual with an interest in familiarizing themselves with NDOT\u2019s GIS plans and capabilities can do so with only a few clicks. Visitors can also share their opinions with the agency directly via the Feedback tab on the navigation bar.\r\n\r\nKingery and the rest of the Timmons Group team emphasized that not only was ArcGIS Hub the best solution for this project, but also that this kind of data organization and communication is more important now than ever in expanding and streamlining an organization\u2019s digital footprint.\r\n\r\n\u201cThis is a repeatable approach that can be handled at all scales of an organization that wants to showcase its initiatives, whether it's data or a specific project,\u201d said Kingery.\r\n\r\nAs fewer over-the-counter interactions occur between state residents and their DOT representatives, sites like the NDOT GeoHub are invaluable to the way organizations manage relationships with their users.\r\n\r\n\u201cLocal governments and other organizations have similar challenges,\u201d said Kingery. \u201cHub is one of the tools across the ArcGIS [system] that has helped us create a 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