GIS-based Visualization for Integrated Highway Maintenance and Construction Planning

Overview

A country’s highway network is one of the core components of its infrastructure network for interconnectivity and socioeconomic development. The process of creating and maintaining roadway infrastructure in India, however, continues to be complicated by factors including rising urbanization, lack of funding, and challenges in integrating sustainable measures.

Add to this the problem of a "siloed" approach to planning for highway infrastructure, which is only aggravated due to a lack of integration, interconnectivity, and interoperability among different stakeholders. This "siloed" strategy often results in conflicts between projects and/or inefficient project selection in roadway projects, hampering cost, and time budgets.

The need of the hour is to equip decision-makers with strategic objectives, accurate asset-related data, as well as planning constraints that can direct data-driven decisions instead of subjective ones that lead to over- or under-allocation of resources. This study was carried out along the same lines, leveraging the power of Geospatial data and visualization for project data integration.

Vision:To encourage informed decision-making and integrated planning and maintenance of highway infrastructure, with a focus on enhancing communication between different stakeholders.