Latest Contributions by PaulGiers

I have a Workforce project (latest release) that passes attribute values from the Assignments table to Survey123 via the custom integration URL.  I figured out how to edit the custom URL Template in the Assignment Integrations table to successfully pass Assignments attribute values other than the 3 exposed in the app integrations UI, including custom fields added to the Assignments table.  If possible, I would also like to pass information about the assignee from the Workers table--e.g. name, contactnumber.  Is there some way of addressing the attributes from these tables joined to Assignments (by their GUID's)?  For example, I can successfully add custom Assignments attributes to the integration URL with the format  ...&field:<survey field name>=&(assignment.<custom attribute name>), but I'd also like to pull the name attribute from the Workers table via the assignments.workersid-to-workers.guid relationship.  I've tried ...&field:workername=&(workers.name), and  ...&field:workername=&(L1workers.name), without success.  I can imagine others wanting to do the same with the descriptions attribute from the Assignment Types table. ... View more

In this video, I demonstrate a simple technique for geo-enriching DOT projects with demographics on at-risk populations for the purpose of analyzing project equity impacts and transportation sustainability.  This technique provides (estimated) metrics that could be incorporated in project scoring, prioritization, and equity performance evaluation. ... View more

  State DOT’s manage millions of valuable roadway assets, spread across hundreds of millions of acres.  Inventorying assets in the field is costly and time-consuming, especially when accurate geolocation is included. Remote sensing may offer alternatives to field inventory, especially if the process can be automated through imagery classification.  Unfortunately, many roadway assets—signage, signals, luminaires and guardrails, for example—present spectral profiles that are difficult or impossible to identify through automated classification of 2-dimensional photo imagery.   Likewise, aerial lidar only captures an asset profile as seen from above.  Mobile lidar captured from specially-equipped (often purpose-built) vehicles, on the other hand, captures rich, 3D representations of roadway assets, which may present new opportunities for identifying assets and their locations. In this series of videos, I introduce a novel approach to extracting roadway assets from mobile lidar point clouds using the workflow pictured.  This video will cover the first step in the workflow. ... View more

This video is a demonstration of a Materials Management solution for Departments of Transportation built from configurable, integrated components  of   the ArcGIS Enterprise platform--including: ArcGIS Portal, ArcGIS Workforce (desktop and mobile), ArcGIS Navigator, ArcGIS Survey123, and ArcGIS Operations Dashboard.  It's a bit longer than some (16 minutes), but it covers an end-to-end workflow that moves from work (sample collection) assignment to field collection of a sample for testing, then to the testing lab, where a lab supervisor assigns the testing and a lab technician performs the test, and finally to a project manager's reporting dashboard.  Along the way, ArcGIS integration with Webhooks technology is leveraged to generate notification emails, and ArcGIS intra-app integration is leveraged to: Minimize administrative burden, Reduce the risks of data entry error and data sharing delays, and Deliver timely, data-driven intelligence to decision makers in a concise and compelling format. ... View more