Operational Intelligence
Executive View
Top Level Objectives
Transportation agencies are struggling to meet the increasing demands of oversight from legislative bodies as well as an information hungry public whose desire for information is growing at rapid paces. It can easily take hours or even days to gather all of the pertinent information such as pavement condition, bridge condition, current construction status and pending maintenance for a simple half mile segment of roadway. This is a daunting task to manage and collate information that is stored in isolated departmental databases, spreadsheets or in hardcopy format. Timely and accurate budget and schedule information on each project is essential. Innovative solutions are needed to allow DOTs to improve business processes and respond rapidly to agency and customer demands.
Solution - Innovation
Rolta's Operational Intelligence Solutions provide immediate and real-time access to critical metrics and key performance indicators. Operational status and trends are provided in real time through the spatial visualization of data that can be aggregated from individual and typically isolated systems. Planning and tracking functions allow executives and operational managers to follow progress of projects from budgeting and planning through to implementation and maintenance. Risk Management Insight are provided through a work center and dashboard so that key risk relating to projects, regulatory compliance and safety can be identified, quantified and managed for a DOT or Municipal Transportation Department.
Advantage - Insight
When business data can be provided in a spatial context, new insights are visible. For example, seeing a map of past due work orders can lead to insightful ways to improve maintenance actions. Likewise, seeing a map of lost customers may provide insights that can improve competitive positioning. Seeing a map of projects and identifying patterns in schedule and budget can help optimize your workforce. 
Through Rolta's Operational Intelligence Solutions, Transportation Agencies benefit by managing costs and schedules more effectively, supporting regulatory reporting compliance, improving customer service and mitigating risk.
Benefit - Impact
Every project delay causes congestion that costs everyone in time and resources. Transportation agencies will save millions of dollars by having insightful tools that improve the review and management of capital planning and spending processes. Transportation agency executives will have new innovative ways to review summary information and make decisions. Rolta's solution will provide immediate access to data that would typically require hours to collect each time analysis and reports are needed. The Rolta solution will give users a complete view of their roadway network, assets, projects and all of the data associated with any given point on the roadways.
Measurable improvements in the management of capital projects, completion of maintenance actions and providing timely information for citizens as well as regulatory agencies are based on good operational visibility. The "operational awareness" enabled through Rolta solutions provides our customers with the insights possible to optimize business processes, increase performance and mitigate risk.
Management View
Business Objectives
Transportation agencies need a central method to access information to ensure these metrics are achieved.
Transportation agencies are struggling to meet the increasing demands of oversight from legislative bodies as well as an information hungry public whose desire for information is growing at rapid paces. It can easily take hours or even days to gather all of the pertinent information such as pavement condition, bridge condition, current construction status and pending maintenance for a simple half mile segment of roadway. This is a daunting task to manage and collate information that is stored in isolated departmental databases, spreadsheets or in hardcopy format. Timely and accurate budget and schedule information on each project is essential. Innovative solutions are needed to allow DOTs to improve business processes and respond rapidly to agency and customer demands.
Transportation agencies need to make the "right" decisions with limited resources in order to meet the needs of government and citizens. This creates the demand for solutions that can harness and unite information in new ways to provide clear perspectives into critical operations. Mountains of complex data, interrelated processes and multiple isolated systems combined with an increasing demand for information are driving waves of change worldwide. Rolta's Geospatial Fusion solutions enable effective and efficient organizations; organizations who uses the power of Geospatial Fusion as a differentiator and a source of spatial intelligence.
Solution
Rolta's Operational Intelligence Solutions for Transportation offers a cost effective, configurable solution to the need for enterprise data access while minimizing the amount of custom code necessary to be developed and maintained. These solutions offer several benefits to Transportation agencies:
- Saving in time and money by providing "one stop shopping" for all critical agency information
- Enhanced decision making by providing access to accurate, live data from agency systems
- Mechanism for information sharing both internally within the agency and, if desired, externally to other agencies
- Reduction in software development costs
- Elimination of source of truth issues for agency data
- Establishment of mapping standards and base map for agency applications.
Rolta's Geospatial Fusion for Transportation allows public transportation agencies to provide a comprehensive, spatially-based portal to the information necessary to support day-to-day operations while providing a complete operational picture. This is provided in a cost-effective manner by minimizing the amount of custom code that is required to be developed to deploy the portal.
Approach
Rolta's Services allow you to assess current operations and plan an effective strategy to harness the power of geography for bringing new investment into your area, making the case for government infrastructure, incentives, support, jobs and investment.
Business Value
Rolta Geospatial Fusion Solutions offer the ideal platform to identify, measure, catalog and report key metrics and performance indictors throughout your organization. Geospatial Fusion for Transportation allows our customers to:
- Reduce the time to deployment and cost by utilizing our advanced configuration and administration tools
- Remove the barriers between disparate data sources
- Remove the barriers between GIS platforms
- Remove the source-of-truth issues by making sure the right data is received from the right source
Technical View
Technical Issues
Perhaps you are facing the following technical challenges that are common across governements:
- Multiple IT platforms and disparate systems within an organization
- Manual processes and/or spreadsheets required to look for patterns and analyze problems
- Operational data not readily assessable throughout the organization
- Inability to see critical information in a spatial context
- Inability to aggregate business and engineering information without significant manual work or duplication of data
- Trend analysis that is an adjunct and difficult task because of lack of data accessibility and lack of analytical tools
Solution Components
Rolta's Geospatial Fusion for Transportation allows public Transportation agencies to efficiently and effectively provide a comprehensive, spatially-based portal to the information necessary to support day-to-day operations while providing a complete operational picture. This solution provides information to key stakeholders to include maps of projects, detour information, environmental requirements, roadside safety programs, etc.
Implementation
Rolta's Operational Intelligence Solutions are quick to deploy. Projects typically begin with needs assessments for the various stakeholders, which serve as the basis for identifying and prioritizing specialized requirements. Needs assessment and work process analysis are important elements to determine how the solution needs to be configured to meet organizational objectives. Business metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) are also critical to identify early in the specification process so that dashboards can be created to meet the needs of executive and managers throughout the organization. You can be up and running within days with core capabilities and with a solution that is highly configurable, rather than relying on a solution which is largely custom code. The Geospatial Fusion Solution for Transportation also allows customers to take advantage of their existing business and spatial environments.
Our implementation approach is built around standard software development methodologies that are focused on providing tangible results quickly and limiting the need for rework. Our implementation methodology includes:
- Assessment, Strategy and Planning
- Requirements
- Configuration/Construction
- Deployment and Transition to Production
How Does it Fit and Why is it Different?
Instead of focusing on one target system, Rolta's Geospatial Fusion Solutions are designed to "plug and play" with any GIS and business system. The traditional approach has been to translate or migrate from the target system into a new application or database. Rolta's Geospatial Fusion Solution can bring information together from various systems, without the need for transformation. These capabilities reduce cost, decrease time to deployment, and allow the customer to completely control data access and security.