Esri Roads and Highways

Esri Roads and Highways is an extension for ArcGIS for Desktop and ArcGIS for Server. The extension is a data management application with a linear referencing system solution for transportation. A linear referencing system (LRS) is a spatial referencing method where the locations of features are described in terms of measurements along linear elements; for example roads, railways, pipelines, and so forth. The extension delivers an integrated framework to maintain highway data with LRS systems on an enterprise level to get a complete view of roadway networks.

Main Features
The LRS platform of Esri Roads and Highways supports capabilities such as:

Integration of Enterprise Data
The extension integrates and synchronizes the systems used by the different highway agencies and departments. The extension also supports multiple linear referencing methods that enable data interoperability and sharing across all business units.

LRS Network management
With this extension, users can edit, visualize and maintain LRS Networks and associated event data. It also provides rule-based location management. This helps users define how event measures and routing associations must react to changes in the LRS, and keeps the event data aligned with roadway LRS Network changes.

Analyze and Report
The extension integrates business data for non-GIS systems as spatial data through the LRS. Users also can generate a variety of reports. The extension produces data products and maps that support safety analysis, traffic congestion analysis, infrastructure maintenance planning and so forth.

Web-based event data editing
The extension includes roadway characteristics editing that utilizes HTML-5-enabled web browsers. It helps organizations to extend the workflows across the enterprise to include users and groups with no prior GIS software and application accessibility.

Map Productions, Quality Control and Workflow Management tools
The extension provides tools for workflow management, data editing, quality control, and visualization of linear reference system networks and their associated data:


 * Map Productions tools - Used to standardize map making activities with tools to batch create, print, and export map products. It allows users to define templates for mapping tasks which can be reused in different geographic areas or used to maintain and update existing map products.


 * Quality Control tools - Used to check for LRS networks and event data for automated and visual review processes to assess, document, correct, and verify the overall quality of spatial data.


 * Workflow Management tools - Used to coordinate and track work across the organizations to develop a standard and repeatable process for LRS data management.

Esri Roads and Highways for Server
The Esri Roads and Highways for Server product includes capabilities as follows:


 * Publish networks and event layers as a map service


 * Users can publish their Roads and Highways LRS networks and registered event layers as a map service. As map services, linear referenced data can be shared to the enterprise and published to an ArcGIS Online organizational account.


 * Adds the Linear Referencing capability to map services


 * The extension for Server extends the current ArcGIS for Server map service with an additional REST service capability for linear referencing. These additional REST services support capabilities such as providing LRS-based network and event layer information, translating coordinate locations to routes and measures, validating route or measure values, and so forth.


 * Provides JavaScript web developer samples


 * The Server product is packaged with JavaScript developer samples for users to demonstrate the pattern of use of the REST services exposed by Esri Roads and Highways for Server.


 * Packages the Roadway Characteristics Editor


 * The Roadway Characteristics Editor is a map-centric web application that supports linear referenced event data editing. Some of the notable features of this web application are:


 * Route searching
 * Attribute set-based route attribution
 * Event data query and editing

System Requirements
System requirements for Esri Roads and Highways are determined by the version of ArcGIS and the platform configuration used on the computer, and requires :
 * ArcGIS for Desktop (Basic, Standard, or Advanced license level). It is available as a single or concurrent use license for ArcGIS for Desktop.
 * ArcGIS for Server (Standard or Advanced license level)