Evaluation of Roadsoft and the Modernization Data Exchange and Migration

Roadsoft is a software tool designed for local transportation agencies in the State of Michigan. Roadsoft is used for asset management, traffic, and safety analysis. Roadsoft uses the Michigan Department of Transportation’s (MDOT) federally required All Road Network of Linear Referenced Data (ARNOLD) as its Geographic information System (GIS) map base with events provided by MDOT’s ESRI Roads & Highway (R&H) software system. Several years ago, the department upgraded to Esri R&H software to manage the roadway data and as a result found that they had to rebuild how the roadway deliverables were created and distributed to Roadsoft to ensure compatible data transfer. MDOT and their partners have had to create complex models and data transformation techniques to accommodate these legacy methodologies, of which the long-term sustainability has always been a concern. These models and techniques have proven costly in both resource requirements and lengthy downtime, to process for MDOT and Roadsoft. They also contain risk due to key person dependencies that may prevent the process from occurring in the future and a lack of documentation and knowledge sharing of current processes. The purpose for the research is to evaluate new technologies and processes that can reduce single source dependencies, streamline services, and decrease turnaround time in a resource-effective manner

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Sponsor Organizations:

  Michigan Department of Transportation

  Van Wagoner Building
  425 W. Ottawa Street
  Lansing, MI  United States  48909
• Performing Organizations:

  Michigan Technological University, Houghton

  University Transportation Center for Materials in Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure (UTC-MiSTI)
  1400 Townsend Drive, 301 Dillman Hall
  Houghton, MI  United States  49931
• Principal Investigators:

  Colling, Timothy

• Start Date: 20250401
• Expected Completion Date: 20260930
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data fusion; Highways; Information processing; Software
• Geographic Terms: Michigan
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01957457
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Michigan Department of Transportation
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jun 6 2025 2:37PM