Abstract
Abstract. Road transport is an important infrastructure system that has a vital role in economic progress, sustainable development, and urban prosperity of societies. Thus, geospatial fundamentals of transport systems need to be adequately considered by the organizations that manage such infrastructures. Furthermore, the adoption of methodologies for monitoring, control and optimisation of transportation networks, from a geographical perspective is crucial to deploy or utilize resources efficiently and cost-effectively. This paper aims to describe the implementation of a complete Geographical Information (GI) based system as developed for the needs of the Cyprus road transport infrastructure. The paper focuses on the system architecture and the presentation of the desktop and mobile application interfaces and utilities. The GI-based system provides a good example of how different tools and open-source components can be integrated to provide a complete solution for collecting, storing, managing, analysing and disseminating geographical information data related to road network infrastructure. The use of the platform within the organization has resulted in a noticeable increase in productivity and accountability. The errors in data collection, analysis and storage were minimized and thus the quality of available data been significantly improved. This is a step towards the achievement of the goals of the European Digital Strategy by using Geographical Information System technologies to take reliable and accurate decisions related to road network monitoring, maintenance and management.
Highlights
Transportation plays a vital role in the economic progress, sustainable development and urban prosperity of societies all over the world (Agyemang, 2013)
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technologies, consist of a fundamental tool for transportation (GIS-T), especially for applications related to route planning, maintenance, asset management and decision support and to the development of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) (Seguí Pons and Ruiz Pérez, 2003)
Regarding the growing integration of geospatial functionalities and transportation, the main objective of this paper is to describe a complete GI-based system as developed for the needs of the public sector
Summary
Transportation plays a vital role in the economic progress, sustainable development and urban prosperity of societies all over the world (Agyemang, 2013). Regarding the growing integration of geospatial functionalities and transportation, the main objective of this paper is to describe a complete GI-based system as developed for the needs of the public sector (main operator of the road infrastructure of Cyprus). The University of Cyprus, through the KIOS Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence (KIOS CoE), in cooperation with the Public Works Department (PWD) of the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works of Cyprus, is undertaking research activities on ITS. Under this perspective, an integrated GI-based platform with the acronym “GNOSIS” (Geographic IΝformatiΟn System for Intelligent Transport System) is developed to collect, store, analyse, manage and disseminate data regarding the local transport network. The UI of the developed platform consists of three main components: Desktop application, Web Portal and a cross-platform Mobile application
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