MAC URISA 2016

Esri’s location platform links public works divisions and personnel together with a familiar mapping interface, coordinating the work of city, county and state governments. Leveraging Web GIS gives you a powerful asset monitoring system. Plan and prioritize operations and maintenance before problems arise. Whether you’re routing fleets, viewing water infrastructure, or creating budget reports, Esri helps you run your public works department with more efficiency and transparency. Learn how customers are using consumer off-the-shelf (COTS) tools to transform the way they conduct their business.

Asset mapping is a one of the first steps in a strategic approach toward optimal allocation of resources for the management, operations, maintenance, and preservation of civil infrastructure assets. The concept of asset management combines geospatial mapping, engineering design, and economic principles with sound business practices to support decision making at the strategic, network, and project levels. Asset management activities include the analysis of assets over time, in particular for performance assessment and forecasting purposes and a need to communicate resource requirements within the framework of what agencies plan to do and what they have accomplished. As such, access to a spatially enabled historical information resource is needed. A Geographical Information System (GIS) provides the requisite capabilities for decision making support using geospatial data for asset modeling and visualization. Asset management-related data have spatio-temporal attributes as snapshots to depict asset status at a given time. Data needs for these types of decisions are project specific and require detailed inventory, condition, and performance data. However, the specification on the level of accuracy and spatial resolution of data collection are still largely undefined for the Architectural, Engineering, Construction and Owner (AECO) industry. Hence, unresolved mensuration modalities of existing conditions for buildings and other civil infrastructure assets has rendered as-built condition documentation unclear. What is meant by accuracy? Is accuracy relative or absolute? Is accuracy related to intent? What is data/model resolution? What resolution is relevant to the various levels of decision making? These concerns, when left undefined, can create problems in as-built deliverables. This presentation addresses these questions and describes effective pathways to analyze, model, and display information that are invaluable in complex asset management decision making. 

One of the cornerstones of MERI GIS' action plan is the collection and management of utility spatial datasets. Locations of stormwater outalls, catchbasins, manholes, and gravity main lines are acquired through physical asbuilt documents and digital AutoCAD drawings and site plan files. MERI digitizes these utilities and incorporates them into its Enterprise GIS. These datasets are pushed to MERI’s Municipal Map and DPW Dashboard web mapping applications for municipal and public access. The public can use these web maps to view the location and attribute information for stormwater utility spatial data within MERI's database. The mapping of utility features is an important resource to in-Distrct towns for stormwater pollution prevention and adherence to the main requirements of the Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) program. MERI has presented its work in mapping these stormwater assets as part of NJDEP’s roll-out to communities, specifically to the Meadowlands towns, in making them aware of the preliminary Draft Renewal of the Tier A MS4 NJDEP Permit. The Tier A MS4 NJDEP Permit allows for the discharge of stormwater from MS4s owned or operated by Tier A towns in the State. The conditions of this permit were last renewed in 2009, expired on February 28, 2014, and continue in force pending completion of the renewal process (NJDEP).