IBI’s Routemapper makes high-speed data collection faster for England’s strategic roads operator

IBI Group supports Highways England’s Asset Information Group with state-of-the-art data gathering and hosting services.

IBI’S Routemapper is a combination of imagery equipment originally commercialised by IBI Group in 2006, which has been combined with Teledyne Optech’s SG1 LiDAR systems, to create a Mobile Mapping System.

Highly accurate laser point clouds and high-quality imagery can be collected from a vehicle moving at high speeds, which can then be processed and office-based users can extract high quality inventory data.

Highways England’s Asset Management Information System (IAM-IS), a central, national-level repository for asset data and information about associated maintenance levels, will be populated by the locations and attributes of the large number of surface-visible assets gathered by the MMS.

In addition, Highways England’s Asset Visualisation Information System (AVIS) – provided by IBI Group – will enable Highways England and its supply chain to visualise its asset data alongside MMS datasets. This includes imagery and LiDAR, mapping and other datasets.

There are several areas in which, daily, organisations can increase efficiencies through accessing their geospatial information in conjunction with imagery and LiDAR point clouds. These include: asset management, drainage, geotechnical, environmental, design, incident management, customer care and enquiries, value management evidence, auditing third parties, and traffic management.

Routemapper allows customers to benefit without making large investment in software, hardware, storage and specialists.

The Routemapper internet-based viewer provides access to an array of imagery and LiDAR point cloud visualisation and measurement functions in a single platform. The viewer uses a web-based mapping engine based on the open-source, Java-based GeoServer environment. Users can share and edit geospatial data. It uses data from any major spatial sources, including open standards such as Web Feature Service and Web Coverage Service, as well as a high-performance certified-compliant Web Map Service (WMS).

To ensure security, all datasets can be hosted on dedicated, secure servers alongside options for double redundancy to maintain access continuity. Any spatial data can be incorporated into the mapping environment. This includes section/chainage, marker post referencing and gazetteers alongside the open-source GeoServer mapping layers – all of which can be navigated to and interrogated in terms of attributes.

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