hgac commute solutions viewer

H-GAC COMMUTE SOLUTIONS VIEWER

An alternative transportation application for the Houston-Galveston region

Overview

� Project Background

� Commute Solutions Program

� Collaboration

� Data Collection

� What is the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex?

� Implementation and Deployment

� Demo

Project Background

� H-GAC’s Air Quality group

� Focus on attaining the Clean Air Act air

quality standards for the region

� Desired more of a public presence for its

Commute Solutions program

Commute Solutions Program

� Partnership of H-GAC’s Regional Commute

Alternatives Program, METRO, TxDOT, and

several other Transportation Management

Organizations (TMOs).

� Purpose is to provide a “one-stop” alternative

transportation resource for both commuters

and businesses

Commute Solutions Program Cont.

Five Goals:

� Transport people in fewer vehicles

� Use transportation that does not contribute to congestion and pollution

� Reduce the number of people commuting during rush hours

� Reduce the number of single occupant vehicles

� Eliminate the need to commute to work

Agency Collaboration

� Assessed Agency Interest

� Requested Data for Participation

� Presented to Participating Entities and

Regional members

� Entity feedback

Data Collection

� Met with Air Quality group and identified

essential data for the application

� Sent requests to respective TMOs

� Formatted data and incorporated into Spatial

Database Engine (SDE)

� Data issues

� Feedback

Data Collection Cont.

• SDE feature class attributes

• XML configuration file calling

SDE attributes

Data Collection: Schedules

• Collected transit

schedules incorporated

into application

ArcGIS Viewer for Flex

� Characteristics of the Viewer:

� Configurable application developed by ESRI

� Precompiled

� Customizable

� No written code required

� http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapps/flexviewer/

Implementation and Deployment

� SDE

� ArcGIS Server

� Web Server

� Configuration Files

Demo

� http://webgis2.h-gac.com/airquality/

Questions?

� Thanks!

� Application link:

http://webgis2.h-gac.com/airquality/

Martin Siwek

GIS Analyst & DBA

Martin.Siwek@h-gac.com

832-681-2545