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... 32 This chapter summarizes and discusses the findings of the surveys of local transportation agencies (MPOs and cities)
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... 33 Project construction data HPMS Project design and materials data Inventory and condition data for other assets Bridge work history data Pavement work history data Others Real estate data Environmental impact and compliance data Bridge inventory and condition data procurement dataContracts/ Pavement inventory and condition data Traffic monitoring data Financial data Crash data Roadway inventory Transportation improvement programs data Travel modeling data No. of local agency respondents What data in your agency have designated stewards?
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... 34 When asked about the volume of data they maintain, eight of nine respondents answered "unknown," indicating that most local agencies do not have reliable estimates of the amount of data they maintain. Of nine agencies that responded to a question about the use of cloud computing services for managing data, five indicated that the services are not used by their agencies, one indicated that the answer is unknown, and three indicated that 1% to 10% of their data are stored and managed using cloud computing services.
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... 35 The survey examined the use of six LRMs by local agencies, including route mile point, route reference post, link-node, route street reference, multilevel LRS, and geographic coordinates. The results of eight responses related to this issue are shown in Figure 30.
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... 36 strategies have a major effect on improving data sharing and access: (1) improved database management systems, and (2)

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