Pavement Carriageways (Undissolved)
Keywords: Pavement, Carriageway, Event, Dynamic Segmentation
Published: 2005.08
Richmond GIS Layer Inventory
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Description
  Abstract: Represents unit of pavement, as assigned to carriageway features. Pavement Carriageways were interpreted from VDOT's pavement sections inventory of the City of Richmond. Typically, VDOT's pavement section definitions can span multiple blocks, while carriageways are hightly segmented; the pavement section will frequently be repeating for each unique carriageway feature, so the PavementID is not a unique record.
  Purpose: Created to support Public Works' Pavement Management and GIS mapping. Pavement Carriageways are subsequently dissolved to create Pavement Sections.
  Supplemental Information: The table named, "tran_pavement_event" is the GIS event table that is the source were the City maintains the translation of VDOT's pavement sections to our carriageways. Pavement sections are stored in an event table because VDOT pavement sections will sometimes terminate "along" an existing carriageway feature, such as 100 feet from an intersection in a mid-block location. The transportation model (carriageways) is not to be highly segmented to support pavement management so event tables and dynamic segmentation is used to create this feature class. After Pavement Carriageways are created via dynamic segmentation, they are dissolved by the PavementID field to create the tran_PavementSection feature class, which is easier to work with for GIS mapping and in Cartegraph software; it then represents each VDOT pavement section as a unique record/feature representation. The original VDOT pavement sections inventory always modeled streets as single lines, as a single table record. As discussed in the Carriageways metadata, the City models divided roads as double lines, if the street is physically divided, i.e. median. Therefore, Public Works' pavement management engineers have interatively gone through the exercise, with the support of GIS staff, to create new records in their pavement inventory for the "other-side-of-the-street," when divided carriageways were present. City pavement engineers treat divided streets as separate pavement entities. This feature class is considered to be a work in progress, as none of the City's pavement engineers has actually completed the process of translating VDOT pavement sections against carriageways. PavementCarriageways are subtyped for arterial, collector, and local street types. Documentation internal to the City's GIS professionals can be found here: Q:\Infrastructure\Geodatabase\Datasets\Pavement\
 
Contact
  Custodian: Pravin Mathur
  Department: Public Works
  Position: GIS/Cityworks Manager
  Address: 900 E Broad St, 7th Floor
  City: Richmond
  State: Virginia
  Zip Code: 23219
  Email: Pravin.Mathur@richmondgov.com
 
Time Period of Content
  Date: 200508
 
Status
  Progress: In work
  Update Frequency: Annually
 
Spatial Domain
  West Coordinate: -77.601436
  East Coordinate: -77.384921
  North Coordinate: 37.603676
  South Coordinate: 37.451340
 
Spatial Data Information
  Data Type: vector digital data
  Data Format: SDE Feature Class
  Data Projection: Lambert Conformal Conic
 
Access and Usage Information
  Access Constraints: none
  Use Constraints: All GIS layers and datasets are owned by the City of Richmond and can not be modified, re-distributed, and/or re-sold without a sub-licensing agreement. All guarantees of validity expire once a dataset leaves the City of Richmond firewall or physical premises. Acknowledgement of the City of Richmond GIS would be appreciated in products derived from these data.
 
Entity and Attribute Information
  Entity Name: vector.ric.tran_PavementCarriageway
  Entity Type: Feature Class
  Entity Count: 15457