What's New in ArcGIS Roads and Highways (May 2024)

ShareUser · ‎05-29-2024

The latest ArcGIS Pro 3.3 and ArcGIS Enterprise 11.3 releases of ArcGIS Roads and Highways include several exciting new features and enhancements, such as support for:

Address management alongside roadway characteristic management by integrating Roads and Highways with the Address Data Management solution.
Snap event behavior in Retire Route
Snap to vertex option for calibration points impacted by a Cartographic Realignment
New and enhanced geoprocessing tools for address data within Roads and Highways
Linear Referencing System (LRS)-based widgets within ArcGIS Experience Builder that allow you to query, search, and make event edits on LRS data
Along with template applications to get started quickly as well as the ability to configure custom applications for your exact requirements

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ArcGIS Enterprise Capabilities

Experience Builder LRS widgets

The next generation web experience for querying, editing, and analysis of LRS data is here! These Experience Builder widgets are designed specifically for use with Roads and Highways data and will appear in the list of available widgets under the Location Referencing section when creating experiences using Experience Builder. Widgets can be deployed individually for specific applications, such as a crash entry app, or with multiple widgets in an application, for example, as a replacement to the Event Editor app. The first group of widgets in this release include:

LRS Search – Search for specific locations on your routes via route/measure, coordinates, or offset from features like intersections, weld points, or signs.
LRS Identify – Get route, measure, and event attribute information at a location with one click.
Add Point Event – Add one or more LRS point events at a location on a route.
Add Line Event – Add one more LRS linear events across a measure range of a route (or routes if the events span routes).
Split Event – Split an event at a location into two events with new attributes.
Merge Events – Merge two adjacent events into a single event with updated attributes.

Address Management Support

Local government agencies are responsible for maintaining addressing data to support the implementation and use of next generation 911 along with growing management and maintenance needs for roadways and their characteristics within their jurisdiction. We are happy to report that ArcGIS Roads and Highways now supports management of address and roadway characteristics together. Two approaches are available to you depending on your business needs.

Integration with Esri's Address Data Management Solution

If you are looking for an out-of-the-box option that combines address and roadway management, ArcGIS Roads and Highways can now be deployed with the Address Data Management (ADM) solution. This integration allows you to manage address data alongside roadway data in a single geodatabase. This data can then be edited/maintained using Roads and Highways and ADM tools within ArcGIS Pro, allowing it to be maintained by a single user in a single application. We have added new and enhanced tools to support the configuration, editing, and analysis of address and roadway characteristic data together. These include:

The new Configure Address Feature Classes geoprocessing tool allows you to configure the layers in the geodatabase with their address points as well as the address block ranges. These features and attributes can then be utilized within Roads and Highways for operations such as dynamic segmentation. Any organization that will utilize address management with Roads and Highways should run this tool to enable the capabilities listed below and to take advantage of other Roads and Highways tools for use with addressing.
The Append Routes geoprocessing tool has been enhanced to support loading routes and associating them with existing centerlines within Roads and Highways. Enabling this option in the tool will result in no additional centerlines being added when appending routes, ensuring that if addressing information is stored on the centerline, these attributes are preserved when appending routes. Because no additional centerlines are being created, the requirement to run the Remove Overlapping Centerlines tool after appending routes successfully is no longer needed.
The Overlay Events geoprocessing tool has been enhanced to support utilizing the centerline as an input layer when addressing information is present. This allows address attributes to be combined with other roadway characteristics that are maintained in LRS events in a dynamic segmentation output, giving you a complete view of all attributes associated with roadways maintained by Roads and Highways.

Support for Other Addressing Approaches

For those of you who are interested in support for address data with roadway management within ArcGIS Roads and Highways in a custom configuration that aligns with your specific business needs, the address integration patterns within the product now allow for flexibility. If utilizing the Address Data Management solution and maintaining address attributes on centerlines is not a desired pattern, addressing fields can also be modeled to be stored on LRS Events.

The Configure Address Feature Classes geoprocessing tool allows the configuration of address block ranges on the centerline or LRS Events within a Roads and Highways deployment. You can choose which approach best fits with your business needs and model the data accordingly. Irrespective of which feature class in the LRS is selected to support this address information, you will still be able to maintain and edit this data via ArcGIS Pro and include the address attributes in dynamic segmentation alongside roadway characteristics such as speed limit and number of lanes.

Additional ArcGIS Pro Capabilities

Other new tools and enhanced capabilities within ArcGIS Pro include snap event behavior support in Retire Route and a new option for calibration points to snap to an existing vertex when impacted by a Cartographic Realignment.

Snap Event Behavior in Retire Route

If you model concurrent routes within your LRS Network(s), snap event behavior is now available when using the Retire Route tool. When a portion or the entirety of a route is retired and there are one or more routes that are concurrent or overlapping with the retired section, snap behavior will utilize the route dominance rules configured in the LRS to determine which of those concurrent routes to “snap” the event to. The result is the event(s) don’t change location, instead they have a new routeID(s) and measure(s) assigned as it’s now associated with a different route that remains at the location where the original route was retired.

Snap to Existing Vertex Calibration Point Option in Cartographic Realignment

A new option for calibration points impacted by a cartographic realignment called snap to vertex is now available. When a centerline is updated in a cartographic realignment and this option is selected, any calibration points that are within the section that was cartographically realigned will snap to the same vertex that they were associated with before the centerline shape changed. This is especially useful for Pipeline Referencing users who model calibration points along their routes at specific locations, such as points of inflection, as they can ensure a specific vertex and calibration point remains at the location after the centerline shape changes.

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