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20 This chapter summarizes and discusses the findings of the surveys and follow-up interviews of representatives of state DOTs. It includes the experiences and practices of DOTs in the following topics: • Data governance; • Data warehousing and cloud computing; • Data integration and sharing; and • Data quality assurance.
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21 Data coordinators are individuals or committees that coordinate the organization, sharing, access, and use of multiple data sets within a business area (e.g., asset management, safety)
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22 monitoring phase, specifically pavement inventory and condition, HPMS, and roadway inventory, are more likely to have designated data stewards than are data collected at earlier phases of the asset/project life cycle. Of note is that data sets that reside in data warehouses or marts (discussed in the following section of this synthesis)
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23 Lack of staffing, "other mission-related issues are more pressing," and lack of resources were commonly described as major factors in limiting progress toward implementing data governance, with 21, 19, and 16 respondents, respectively (Figure 15)
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24 Data WarehouSinG anD clouD computinG In response to questions about the use of data warehouses or marts, a wide range of practices across the 17 data sets used in the survey were identified, as shown in Figure 16. Most respondents indicated maintaining system inventory, condition, and performance data in warehouses or marts.
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25 computing, 22 estimated that 1% to 10% of their data (as a whole) are being stored and managed in the cloud.
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26 In the next 5 years, what percentage of your agency's transportationrelated data is anticipated to be stored and managed using commercial cloud computing services? 4 agencies 5 agencies 5 agencies 3 agencies 14 agencies More than 50% 21–50% 11–20% 1–10% Unknown FIGURE 19 Future use of cloud computing services for storing and managing transportation data owned by DOTs.
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27 (showing all identified pairs of data sets) is presented in Appendix C
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28 route mile point are the most commonly used LRMs. The wide use of geographic coordinates may be because of the prevalence of Global Positioning System (GPS)
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29 How does your agency share data with outside users (public and private entities)
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30 Most respondents indicated that two of these strategies have a major effect on improving data sharing and access: (1) increased use of web-based data storage and access, and (2)
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31 received. No respondents indicated that any of these data quality elements is entirely ignored in their agencies.
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