Isle of Wight Council is using MAYRISE Highways software to log over 140,000 highways assets as part of a scheme to create and manage a detailed Highway Inventory.  This database provides record of the position and condition of the assets across the island and will form an integral part of the Council’s multi million pound bid for Public Finance Initiative (PFI) funding for highway maintenance.

Isle of Wight commissioned a four-month asset inventory project to record the position and condition of every asset associated with the 822 kilometres of highway on the island. Using Panasonic Toughbook mobile computers, John Reid Consultancy Services mapped over 140,000 unique features which underwent rigorous quality control procedures prior to export into the MAYRISE system.

MAYRISE Highways integrates data captured in the field with Ordnance Survey MasterMap mapping and the Council’s Local Street Gazetteer (LSG) in order to maintain a geo-referenced record of highways assets.  Isle of Wight also uses MAYRISE MapNow, the instant map-to-view software that provides a quick and easy way of viewing information on digital maps or photographs.

MAYRISE Highways seamlessly integrates the field captured data with Ordnance Survey MasterMap mapping and the Council’s LSG in order to provide a geographic position for every asset. This geographic reference, as well as enabling advanced analysis of the asset information for highway maintenance and fault reporting, also provides a common denominator for the information to be integrated with other Council information management systems.

MAYRISE Highways is already used to link highway asset information to the Council’s Geographic Information System (GIS) from GGP Systems and it is planned to extend this to the Council’s Corporate Call Centre and eventually directly to the public via the Council’s website for improved enquiry handling and fault reporting.

“Mayrise provides an easy to use solution for the management of our highways information. It is robust system enabling us to store, retrieve and query transport asset data for both day-to-day highways management, customer service enquiries as well as strategic Council initiatives such as our PFI bid,” said Malcolm Smith, Policy and Strategy Manager.  “Neighbouring Portsmouth was the first UK highway authority to secure a highways PFI and it is estimated that if our bid is successful the contract would be worth £800 million over 25 years. When you are talking about this scale of investment over this period of time it is vital that both the base data and the information management tools are fit for purpose and durable.”

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