Transportation and Geospatial Technologies
A strong understanding of transportation and geospatial technologies is critical to effective transportation and emergency planning, exercise and management. The most successful transportation strategies are built on a thorough understanding of travel demand characteristics, transportation supply capability, and transportation operation.
Engineering, planning, and communicating with people in mind.
IEM helps customers understand what people need for transportation solutions, combining planning expertise, transportation engineering, statistical analysis, and the latest modeling technologies and geospatial analysis tools. IEM conducts transportation and evacuation studies and plans for states, cities, ports, transportation carriers, and industrial facilities across the country.
Transportation Capabilities
- Transportation Planning—Statewide and regional transportation plans, travel demand modeling, travel forecasting, travel surveys, model development and enhancement, corridor studies, multi-modal planning, non-motorized transportation.
- Emergency Management—Evacuation plans, evacuation time estimates (ETE), emergency response time modeling, biosecurity planning, Points of Dispensing (POD) planning for mass distribution of antibiotics, emergency operation centers.
- Traffic Engineering—Transportation impact analysis (TIA), signal timing and coordination, geometric design, parking facilities.
- Transit Planning—Regional transit plans, fleet assignment and routing, bus, rail and ferry transit systems, surveying and mapping.
- Freight Planning—Commodity flow studies of hazardous materials, ports and marine transport, technical assistance, intermodal facilities.
- Intelligent Transportation Systems—ITS Architecture development, ITS system design and evaluation.
Geospatial Capabilities
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) plays an increasingly important role in government and industry for emergency management and transportation planning. GIS brings the much needed visual component in helping deliver a common operating picture to planners, operators and decision-makers.
- Custom Mapping—Transportation and evacuation planning projects using shape files and data layers describing study areas at the state, regional, and local level. Mapping projects include vulnerable population assessments, hurricane and earthquake damage forecasting, including coastal inundation and flood depth analysis.
- Data Development and Automation—Digital GIS data from hardcopy maps and drawings, geo-coding and address matching, data conversion, CAD to GIS transformation.
- Data Integration—Joining spatial data layers and attribute datasets, geospatial database and data schema design.
- Data Quality Assurance and Quality Control—Data standards - State-level parcels, FGDC, SDSFIE, HSIP, Metadata creation, quality assurance and loading.
- GPS Field Data Analysis—Residential, commercial, recreation locations; roadway, rail, and intersection characteristics.
- Custom Software Development using Open Source Technology—Open Source technology is being widely adopted by government and business for cost-effective, secure, and reliable delivery of mission-critical and day-to-day operations. Open Source technology has been embraced by the Department of Defense and is gaining popularity at all levels of government. In this challenging economy, public and private agencies are looking to reduce costs including license fees tied to the maintenance and upgrades of their enterprise systems.
