for weather related events

Carlos BracerasSTEICS Presentation

What is UPlan?

• Enterprise GIS platform • Helps UDOT organize and leverage a wide variety of data & maps• Built on ESRI arcgis.com cloud software offering

• persistent and scalable if local IT infrastructure becomes unavailable

• Has been in use at UDOT for 5 years

uplan.maps.arcgis.com

Data Example: Live Feeds

• Can tie into real time data from NOAA and USGS.

Weather Watches & Radar

Wind Speed & Fire Info

Severe Storm Paths

Data Example : Social Media• Connect to content from Twitter, YouTube and flickr• Leverage public or crowd sourced data

Data Example : Utah Data• UDOT Data

• At Risk Bridge Locations• National Highway System• Real Time Traffic Cameras• Other Operations Data

• Geologic Data• Earthquake Models• Faults• Avalanche Paths

• Demographic • Hospitals• Schools• Firestations• Shelters

UPlan Analysis Tools

• Data is organized and available

• Can run “on the fly” analysis• Examples:

• Calculate Drive Time Areas• Perform HotSpot Analysis• Automatic Routing

Practical Use Cases• Used in the Utah Great Shakeout as a Common Operating Picture for

many state agencies• Maps are:

• easily delivered to any mobile device • can be edited from any mobile device

• shared to others anywhere via internet• quickly embedded in existing websites as a public information

offering• Same platform used recently by CDOT during severe flooding