Designing Geodatabases for Transportation

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Designing Geodatabases for Transportation will be seen as an important tool to help tackle the problem of designing a geographic information system (GIS) that connects the many origins, destinations, paths, and conveyances that exist in transportation.

Designing Geodatabases for Transportation addresses the development of a GIS to manage data relating to the transportation facilities and services commonly organized around various modes of travel for reliable data exchange. Transportation involves several modes of travel, and although the details of each mode can be quite different, this book demonstrates how all follow a basic conceptual structure. That structure consists of an origin, a destination, a path between the two, and a conveyance that provides the ability to move along the path to establish a common data structure.

J. Allison Butler has worked for many local, regional, and state transportation agencies during his 30-year career. A prolific writer in his area of expertise, Butler has been a consistent innovator in such fields as spatial database design, traffic engineering, planning policy, and economic development. He was a key participant in developing the GIS Certification Institute (GISCI) certification program. He is a co developer with Dr. Kenneth J. Dueker of the GIS-T Enterprise Data Model. Mr. Butler is a frequent conference speaker and workshop instructor on a number of topics including highway safety, geodatabase design, agency management, and land-use planning. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and his Master of Science degree in electric power engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.