ESRI Ireland & Cora Systems Aid Tyne & Wear in Transport Planning:
Together with Cora Systems, ESRI Ireland designed and developed PV Spatial, an integrated mapping component to help Tyne & Wear view their transport planning projects “geographically”.
Cora Systems Social Urban & Regional Planning
Introduction
Together with Cora Systems, ESRI Ireland designed and developed PV Spatial, an integrated mapping component to help Tyne & Wear view their transport planning projects “geographically”. This enables them to manage their work coherently, share project information, scheduling tasks and making updates across several geographical areas.
Client
The Tyne and Wear is a metropolitan county in the North East of England. The Tyne & Wear Local Transport Plan (LTP) is a five year statutory document prepared by all local authorities which set out a strategy for the development of transport in a particular area. This plan indicates how money is made available in a plan area depending upon the quality of its Local Transport Plan.
The Challenge
The main problem with the Local Transport Plan was summarised as “getting the right information, at the right time in the right format”. The key difficulties with five Local Authorities working together on one Program included lack of project visibility and getting information from each local authority for reports.
The Solution
PV Spatial by Cora and ESRI Ireland enables Project Managers, Project Teams and IT Managers at Newcastle Upon Tyne to spatially manager their work coherently, sharing project information, scheduling tasks and making updates across several geographic areas.
The Benefits
Gary Mac Donald, Tyne and Wear LTP Core Team Manager “The Importance of having knowledge of various hierarchical levels of any project or group of projects cannot be underestimated. This coupled with the Geographic Information Systems mapping element, had made this application an indispensable tool to us in current and future planning initiatives”.
The Technology Used
Together with Cora Systems, ESRI Ireland designed and developed Project Vision (PV) Spatial, an integrated mapping component based on ESRI’s ArcIMS product. This seamlessly sits within the Project Vision application and is a scalable Internet Map Server and it is widely used for GIS Web Publishing to deliver maps, data and metadata to many users on the Web.
ArcGIS
ArcGIS is also increasingly being used in the Development Control function of Local Authorities to ensure that proposed developments adhere to the stipulations of the Development Plan as well as to precedence and best practice. In some Local Authorities ArcGIS is used to maintain a digital Register of submitted Planning Applications. In Northern Ireland these Planning Applications can be submitted online using ArcGIS. Once captured, incoming applications can then be spatially compared to the Development Plan Geodatabase to determine constraints during the approval process. They can also be published in interactive map form on the internet for query by the Public.
A number of ESRI Irelands clients are using ArcGIS to prepare and publish Development Plans and Planning Register’s.