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Real-time Road Network
The on-line service developed under this project will bring together transportation data from the federal, provincial and municipal levels, linking it through a common framework within a distributed Internet environment. Because the new service will support distributed servers, the transportation data need not be warehoused in a central location nor converted to a common format. Clients will simply subscribe to the service, which will provide a seamless transition between the various data sources. The on-line service will immediately reflect changes in the source data, thus improving clients' decision making. The service will also improve the quality of data, since it will combine the possibly incomplete or outdated information held by individual organizations to produce a more complete dataset in a single transparent interface. The project will take an innovative approach to providing access to geospatial data by supplying the information as a service, rather than a product. The new Road Network will benefit Canadians by making it easier to determine the most efficient routes by finding the shortest paths between locations and estimating traffic volumes. Better information will lead to more effective emergency and disaster management, transportation planning and economic development.
Primary Partner:
CARIS Universal Systems Ltd.
Fredericton,
New Brunswick;
Partners: DataQC; Service New Brunswick; New Brunswick Department of Transportation; New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources; City of Fredericton; Natural Resources Canada (Earth Sciences Sector)
Funding From GeoConnections: $74,861.00 ( 41.0 %)
Estimated Inception Date: Fall, 2000
Estimated Completion Date: Fall, 2001
Deliverables from this project benefitted the following provinces: All provinces