Office of Planning, Environment, & Realty (HEP)
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Geospatial Data Collaboration (GDC) is a new initiative for geospatial data-sharing sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).
The initiative encourages transportation agencies to use geospatial tools to share data, increase collaboration, and improve the quality and speed of transportation decision-making. GDC is one element of FHWA's Every Day Counts (EDC) initiative, which is aimed at producing innovations, resources, and partnerships to shorten project delivery, enhance safety, and protect the environment. EDC and GDC also leverage other ongoing FHWA efforts such as Planning and Environment Linkages (PEL) and Eco-Logical. Taken together, all of these efforts are helping transportation stakeholders work together and with others to result in smarter, faster decision-making and better transportation projects.
Geospatial Data Collaboration is concerned with three specific areas that are the essence of the initiative. Each of the areas is interrelated, and there is no order to their implementation. More information about these areas are in the links below:
Use of geospatial tools to support collaboration and decision-making can lead to several benefits:
Many State DOTs and other transportation agencies have recognized the potential of geospatial tools and have the necessary systems and resources in place to deploy these tools.
FHWA would like to hear from State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) and other transportation agencies about their uses of geospatial tools that support data-sharing and collaboration. Please share your examples with us by contacting Mark Sarmiento at Mark.Sarmiento@dot.gov or at 202-366-4828.