Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Applications in Transportation Systems Engineering and Planning

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Applications in Transportation Systems Engineering and Planning

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Applications in Transportation Systems Engineering and Planning
21 - 25 Jul 2024
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates

What are the Goals?

  • Have a thorough understanding of how Geographic Information System (GIS) can help in transportation studies
  • Identify trends in traffic operations and safety performance measures, leading to improvement in transportation safety
  • Detect root causes of traffic incidents and determine effective countermeasures
  • Evaluate the performance of segments, corridors, networks, or regions
  • Pinpoint hot and cold spots via density estimation heat mapping
  • Conduct complex spatial analysis required to plan the transportation systems of the future
  • Build dynamic and rich mapping applications
  • Gain critical spatial thinking skills and become confident in spatial decision making

Who is this Training Course for?

  • Traffic & Transportation Engineers and Professionals
  • Professionals in Urban Planning and Development
  • Project Managers in Infrastructure Solutions Consulting
  • Data Analysts, Technicians in Traffic Management Centers
  • Researchers and Consultants
  • Practitioners in Traffic and Transport Engineering
  • Traffic Safety Professionals
  • Highway and Roadway Design Engineers

Daily Agenda

Day One: Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Fundamentals

  • Geographic Information System (GIS) Applications in General
  • Geographic Information System (GIS) Applications in Transportation Studies
  • Major Functions of Geographic Information System (GIS)
  • Relating Information from Multiple Sources
  • Geographic Data and the Database
    • Data Acquisition
    • Data Integration
    • Data Structure
    • Data Modeling
  • ArcMap Practice

Day Two: Understanding Geographic Information System (GIS) Maps

  • Data Information
    • Spatial data
    • Geographic Information System (GIS) Database
    • Raster vs. Vector Data
  • GIS Shapefiles
    • ESRI Shapefile format
  • Displaying and Navigating Geographic Information System (GIS) Maps
  • Feature Attributes
    • Census Units
    • The Point, Line, Polygon Data

Day Three: Data Collection

  • Global Positioning System (GPS)
  • Geographic Data Library
  • Census Data
  • Transportation Data and Analytics with Geographic Information System (GIS)
  • Geospatial Crash Analysis

Day Four: Visualization and Data Processing

  • Symbolizing and Labeling Geographic Information System (GIS) Data
  • Continuous and Categorical Data
  • Classification Methods
  • Normalization
  • Geographic Information System (GIS) Data Query
    • Classification
    • Identify, Select, Find
    • Select Features by Attributes
  • Joining and Relating Tables
  • Spatial Joining
  • Dissolving and Clipping layers

Day Five: Geospatial Analysis and Hotspot Analysis

  • Introduction to Spatial Analysis
  • Buffering Features
  • Overlaying Data
  • Spatial Analysis Methods to Identify Hotspots
    • Fishnet-based Analysis
    • Kernel Density Estimation

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Date & Time
Sunday, July 21, 2024
Start - 10:00 AM (Asia/Kuwait)
Thursday, July 25, 2024
End - 10:00 AM (Asia/Kuwait)

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Location

Dubai

Dubai
United Arab Emirates
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Seattle International For Training

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