Project Profile

Enterprise Asset/Work Order Management System

Client:
City of Richmond, Virginia Department of Public Works

Location:
Richmond, Virginia

Timmons Group is currently implementing a GIS-based Enterprise Asset/Work Order Management System for the City of Richmond, Virginia Department of Public Works (DPW).  The DPW has undertaken this project to integrate a variety of disparate legacy applications as well as improve its daily operating efficiencies and increase its level of service to customers.  This project will also establish a comprehensive inventory of all public works assets and will achieve American Public Works Association (APWA) accreditation for public works best management practices.

Scope of Services

Requirements Analysis & System Design

Conduct a series of implementation planning workshops for the purpose of defining critical success factors, work processes, data needs, work order/service order protocols, reporting requirements, etc.

Existing Data Analysis

Review and analyze each of the existing data sets that will need to be integrated with the new asset/work order management system including pavement distress data, stormwater system condition assessments and various other paper work order and permit documents.

Database Design

Develop the customized UNITRANS and Cityworks (CMMS) database design required to support linear referencing and asset/work order management activities within the City’s existing ArcGIS geodatabase.

Legacy Application Discovery & Interface Design & Implementation

Perform a detailed review of the multiple legacy applications (Permitting, Payroll, Finance, Central Address Database, CMRS, etc.) that the planned asset management system will be expected to either replace or interface with as part of the overall enterprise implementation.  

The results of this effort will yield a Functional Requirements Document (FRD) capable of supporting the development of the required application interfaces (customized programming).

Base Implementation

Install, configure, tune, test, load, etc. the base asset/work order management software packages (Cityworks) throughout the department.

Asset Capture

Deploy state-of-the-art van-based image capture and terrestrial photogrammetry techniques to locate all of DPW’s above ground assets visible within the public right-of-way of an approximately 1,000 road network.  

A variety of point and linear assets will be captured on digital images, extracted to sub-meter accuracy, integrated with the existing base GIS data sets and loaded into the GIS and asset management software applications.

Point Features:

• Bridges
• Crosswalks
  
• Drainage structures
  
• Traffic signs
  
• Pavement markings
  
• Utility poles
  
• Parking meters
  
• Speed humps
  
• Railroad crossings
  
• Fire hydrants
  
• Manholes
  
• Valves
  
• Street trees

Linear Features: 

• Surface type (pavement management)
  
• Median type
  
• Traffic direction  
  
• Speed limit zones
  
• School zones   
  
• Shoulders   
  
• Curbs   
  
• Ditches   
  
• Guardrails   
  
• Sidewalks   
  
• Pavement striping
  
  

 

Project Profile

Dominion Joint-Use Inventory Survey

Client:
Dominion Resources, Inc.

Location:
Statewide, Virginia

An expansive project lasting nearly three years. Timmons Group provided GPS, GIS and consulting services to field locate and verify Dominion’s pole inventory and joint-use pole ownership in all common Dominion and Verizon service areas. Included in the survey were 625,000 Dominion-owned poles, 130,000 Verizon joint-use poles, for a combined total of approximately 330,000 joint
-use power/telephone poles.

As a data collection application and quality-control measure, Timmons Group created an ArcGIS-based “joint-use collection tool” whereby surveyors performed in-field adjustment of GPS located poles to Dominion’s GIS Landbase.

Deliverables

• GIS and associated databases were provided to Dominion and Verizon on a weekly basis and were subject to stringent quality assurance standards for attribute and pole count accuracy.
• GPS field location of Dominion poles/Verizon joint-use poles within the Verizon services area overlap
  
• Adjusted ESRI shapefiles of Dominion pole locations relative to Dominion’s GIS Landbase
  
• “Joint-use collection tool” application development
  
• Technical reports and documentation to support verification and inventorying activities

Technologies Used

• ArcGIS
  
• Trimble SDK Tools
  
• Trimble PathFinder Office
  
• Trimble PathFinder GPS Systems