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2 1 CHAPTER 4 A Vision for Strengthening Decision Making On the basis of its meetings and deliberations, thecommittee believes that the only viable approachto achieving the goal of a comprehensive, timely, and usable geospatial information infrastructure is for stakeholders to work in concert. The stakeholders consist of modal administrations, offices within modal administrations, state and local agencies, vendors, associations, academic institutions, private industry, and anyone with a vested interest in the effective and efficient operation of the transportation system.
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ing to effectively use the technology, and (c) to expand their business processes to fully enable the technology.
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Recommendation 1a While the roles are less well defined in this new environment, the committee believes that USDOT is best positioned to embrace the role of facilitator/enabler in developing improved geospatial information infrastructure, empowering agencies to build relationships both across USDOT and throughout the federal government. All transportation organizations need to be active.
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• The awareness and appreciation by an organization's leaders of the value of their investment in geospatial information technologies; • The level of knowledge that current employees have about applying specific geospatial information techniques and tools; • The development of human capital -- the understanding and skills of new employees and of teachers of future employees; • The ability of organizations to evolve their business practices to capitalize on these technologies; and • The development and advancement of the geospatial information infrastructure -- technologies, data streams, and analysis techniques -- available for and used by an organization. Power of the Technology Geospatial information technologies are complex tools that have developed rapidly over the past two decades.
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their deployment to specific transportation audiences. The programs could include short courses, workshops, and other means of continuing education and outreach.
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ware tools capable of managing, storing, and mining voluminous databases. Whereas GIS formerly relied on limited libraries of stored, prepackaged data sets, and in many cases still do, the ability exists to produce ondemand geospatial representations of virtually any data from one or multiple sources.
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tial information and comprehensive coverage of multimodal geospatial information. The emphasis of these recommendations is on interoperability and providing the necessary infrastructure to enable this interoperability, not on rigid consistency or mandates.
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Recommendation 3e USDOT should actively participate in initiatives to review issues related to legal liability and privacy concerns specific to transportation uses of geospatial information with the objective of proposing changes in law or procedures that may be necessary to provide reasonable protections to agencies and organizations that archive and provide data. Recommendation 3f USDOT should facilitate collaborative projects among its modal administrations, state and local transportation organizations, private companies, transportation associations, and academic institutions by identifying funding, peer review, and in-kind contributions of data, software, and hardware.
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