Roadway tools

This can include both physical changes to a roadway resulting from new construction, and administrative changes such as redefining a particular route. Because each roadway asset record in the database represents a selected portion of what is in reality a continuous network, the roadway tools can be used to redefine how you divide that network into separate assets.

The affected data includes the attributes, assets, lanes, markings, and elements attached to a roadway, and associated records such as asset groups, maintenance schedules, work orders, inspections, service requests, and use permits. Because each item is attached to a specific point or range measured on the length of the roadway, any change in the roadway’s overall structure, such as adding or removing length, will make at least some of these measurements inaccurate.

How Infor Public Sector handles the roadway data depends on the tool you’re using and the type of records you’re working with. Roadway features, such as attributes, assets, lanes, markings, and elements, must have their measurements adjusted to reflect their position on the altered roadway. For example, when you add length, all features past the added length (measured from the start of the roadway) must have the extra length added to their measurements.

On the other hand, work orders, inspections, and service requests are records that represent historical events rather than characteristics of the roadway. For example, compare a work order for a particular section of roadway to a Speed Limit attribute that covers the same section. Suppose the roadway is rerouted, so that the section where the work was done is no longer part of it.

It makes sense to shift the attribute (assuming the speed limit hasn’t changed), but it remains the case that the work order was performed on the original section of road, not the new one. So Infor Public Sector adds a roadway history record, which you can view on the Roadway History tab of the Work Order InfoViewer. The documentation for each tool gives more details on how that tool handles different types of data.

See Roadway history.