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GIS Solutions: SRF Consulting Saves Lives with Innovative GIS Transportation Solutions
In 2009, in what was described as a “first of its kind effort,” the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) led the way in developing County Road Safety Plans (CRSPs) for all of its 87  counties. 
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Small Ohio City Uses ArcGIS ‘Out of the Box’ Solutions to Proactively Manage Stormwater Infrastructure and Permitting
GIS Solutions: Monroe, Ohio, is a city of modest size (population 15,412) in the Cincinnati metro area; as such, stormwater services operate according to Ohio’s “Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4s) - General Permit.”
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GIS Solutions: One Standard to Rule Them
OHLA Adopts IFC for Interoperability in Large Spanish Roadway ConstructionThe Spanish multinational construction and civil engineering company Obrascón Huarte Lain, S.A. (branded as OHLA Progress Enablers since July 2021) has begun construction work on the Malpartida bypass road in the province of C...
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GIS Solutions: Digital Innovation: HNTB’s Reality Mapping Evolution
For more than a century, employee-owned design firm HNTB has helped create built-world projects that meets the unique demands of its environment and community. With client relationships spanning decades, they understand infrastructure life cycles and have the perspective to solve technical challenge...
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GIS Solutions: 1898 & Co. Applies Cutting Edge Engineering to Digital Infrastructure
1898 & Co., part of Burns & McDonnell, that is celebrating its 125th anniversary of the firm's founding, is a globalbusiness and technology consultancy. 1898 & Co. is a blendof engineers and industry specialists who bring togetherbusiness insights with leading technical capabilities. WhileBurns & Mc...
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GIS Solutions: Better for Land Development
Jerry Lopez, PLS, is founder and president of TurnPointGeomatics, a land surveying and construction management support services company supporting landdevelopment. Based in Murrieta, Calif., (halfwaybetween Los Angeles and San Diego) TurnPoint has, since its2019 inception, been very focused on apply...
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GIS Solutions: Mind the Gap: Esri Is Fundamental to HDR’s Cutting-Edge DOT Deliverables
HDR’s Alexa Mitchell is a civil engineer, BIM consultantand self-described “digital delivery technology enthusiast.”She has more than 20 years of experience in project deliveryand she’s currently heading a four-person team working withstate Departments of Transportation. She and her team studytheir....
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GIS Solutions: Esri: The OG of Digital Twins
The concept and model of the digital twin wasfirst publicly introduced in 2002 by MichaelGrieves, at a Society of ManufacturingEngineers conference in Troy, Mich.,” Wikipediatells us, also noting that the idea was anticipated in computer scientist David Gelernter’s1991 book Mirror Worlds.
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GIS Solutions: From Base Mapping to 3D Deliverables, Ramboll Uses Esri Tools to Leave the World a Better Place
The DuPont Chambers Works in Deepwater, N.J., is a scaryand dangerous 700-acre toxic waste site rife with chemical andradiological contamination resulting from more than 100 years ofuse as a manufacturing facility. The aura of gloom from the sitecan hardly be overstated—it would make a fine setting....