Montana Department of Transportation

摘要

Bill Cloud presented a summary of Montana Department of Transportation (DOT) data management issues and activities, responding as follows to the eight questions. What is the biggest data issue you will be facing in the next 18 months? The biggest data issue facing the Montana DOT depends on which individual or group of individuals may be asked the question. Coordination among these entities has become a major focus. Some of the more critical issues are 1. Increased data needs: 1.1 New data items, 1.2 More specificity in existing data items because of improved modeling and analysis tools, and 1.3 More efficient access (user friendly automation). 2. Increasing staff levels: 2.1 Field data collection, 2.2 Data processing and analysis, and 2.3 Programming. 3. Meeting the performance programming process data needs. 4. Meeting the GASB 34 requirements. 5. Integration of the project and financial management systems. Every program area's data needs and concerns are equally important, and it would be difficult, if not impossible, to identify a single most important issue. However, the common link between data in almost all program areas is systems integration. In order to become more efficient in the use and exchange of data between Montana DOT's management systems and other programs, the department began the process several years ago to develop an Oracle-based Transportation Information System (TIS). Since that time, virtually all applications have been rewritten in Oracle. An integrated information architecture, the TIS, has been built, and work continues to fully integrate all the major information systems (bridge, pavement, safety, congestion, performance programming, project scheduling, financial, and others).