ArcGIS Pro
This next generation desktop GIS supports data visualization, advanced analysis, and authoritative data maintenance.
Transportation
Apply GIS to resilient infrastructure projects using federal funding
Areas that GIS can support
- Prioritizing projects
- Climate resiliency
- Equity in transportation
Fund the right project at the right time
Making the most strategic investments involves finding the optimal balance among factors such as safety, congestion mitigation, and economic development to achieve the greatest societal benefit. GIS analysis can help you understand the trade-offs between different investments, ensuring that agencies' dollars deliver the greatest impact. GIS is a platform of insight that helps decision-makers achieve smarter transportation infrastructure investments that benefit the community.
Design lasting transportation networks
GIS is an essential tool to address current climate-related vulnerabilities, identify areas with future risk, and determine where to focus mitigation efforts. Design resilient infrastructure and stay aligned with federal funding objectives with spatial analysis that enhances nearly every aspect of infrastructure planning and project management.
Use GIS to
- Inventory and manage the conditions of assets.
- Understand asset criticality, determined by social and economic importance, and identify available alternatives.
- Run prediction models that reveal patterns that help develop long-range plans.
Ensure transportation systems are fair and equitable
Location is central to understanding inequity, especially in transportation where mobility and accessibility vary with demographics. GIS provides a framework for analyzing social imbalances in communities near infrastructure investments so agencies can achieve greater equity and meet new federal funding equity requirements. Deliver enhanced mobility to jobs, schools, housing, and health care with location-based data and analysis in GIS.
Products for your recovery efforts
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ArcGIS Dashboards
Present data and analytics on an intuitive and interactive screen to visualize trends, monitor status in real time, and inform stakeholders.
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ArcGIS Hub
This focused, initiative-driven community engagement platform allows organizations to work with internal and external stakeholders, acquire and analyze input, track the progress of initiatives, and improve the outcomes for the community with accountability and transparency.
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ArcGIS Community Analyst
Demographic, lifestyle, business, and socioeconomic data combine with powerful analytics to foster deeper understanding of your community. Use ArcGIS Community Analyst to allocate resources equitably, inform decisions for infrastructure planning, and enhance site selection.
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Available funding programs
Current funding programs support a wide range of transportation investment activities. GIS can help you meet and stay aligned with the objectives in these featured programs.
PROTECT Program
Make surface transportation resilient by supporting planning activities, resilience improvements, community resilience and evacuation routes, and at-risk coastal infrastructure.
SMART Grant
Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) grants fund projects focused on advanced smart city technologies and systems to improve transportation.
Thriving Communities Program
This program advances projects that will improve health outcomes, transportation access, housing conditions, and job opportunities for members of disadvantaged communities.
RAISE Grants
The RAISE Discretionary Grant Program helps communities build transportation projects that have significant local or regional impact and improve safety and equity.
Insight on how to use federal funding
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Case studyChicago RTA transforms rider experience with GIS
The Chicago Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) used GIS to understand and fulfill riders’ needs while enhancing the services they provide.
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BlogVirginia ahead of curve on prioritizing infrastructure projects
The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) and Office of Intermodal Planning and Investment (OIPI) leveraged GIS to assist with the evaluation and prioritization of infrastructure projects across the state.
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VideoA common system for infrastructure investments
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation developed GeoDOT Local, a hub to connect the state to projects in cities and towns, which simplified the process of applying for and distributing infrastructure funds.
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Case studyMaryland agency improves infrastructure resilience
The Maryland State Highway Administration is leveraging GIS to show how small changes to existing processes improve infrastructure and help to prepare for the future.
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WebinarDOT Webinar: Addressing the Impacts of Infrastructure Investments
Esri recognizes that the transportation industry must take bold new approaches to shaping our future. Understanding what is in front of us in a real-world setting will help decide whether we maintain and build infrastructure in the traditional fashion or if we need to shift our approach. By preparing today, we can envision how forward-thinking communities will thrive in the future.
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WebinarGIS for Effective Safety Management
For roadways to become safer for citizens, DOTs need to have an effective safety management program. By using GIS as framework professionals can be empowered with tools to design better programs to improve overall roadway safety.
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ebookBuild Back Smarter with GIS
GIS provides a framework to facilitate data sharing and collaboration, allowing agencies to share the same information and have the same understanding with respect to project definitions and assumptions. Plan and deliver more strategic infrastructure investments with GIS.
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WebinarA Focus on Transportation and Transit Funding
This webinar from the Aligning Your Programs with Federal Funding series focuses on expanding your use of GIS with federal funding to address transportation and transit needs.
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EBOOKCreating a More Equitable Transportation System
Transform your transportation network with GIS technology to create more inclusive transportation systems and design policies that address historical inequities.
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USER STORYSANDAG proposes 5 Big Moves to change transportation in the San Diego region
The San Diego Association of Governments' (SANDAG) vision, 5 Big Moves, addresses current mobility needs and long-term trends. GIS played a role in almost every element of SANDAG's planning process, improving the quality of life for its residents.
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WHERENEXTHow the New York MTA manages $1 trillion in assets
Location intelligence technology is helping the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) shift to data-driven budgeting, map its assets and maintenance needs, and give executives data to make better decisions. The transportation network encompasses hundreds of miles of track, more than 12,000 buses and train cars, and a staggering $1 trillion in assets.
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Additional Funded Areas
Explore how Esri technology aligns with other funding objectives.
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