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| New City and County Business
Navajo Nation Department of Transportation
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Situated in the north east corner of Arizona, parts of New Mexico, Colorado,
and Utah, lies the reservation of the Navajo Nation. Roughly the size of
South Carolina, the Navajo Nation is larger than ten states and has a
population of about 250,000 people. The transportation infrastructure of the
Navajo Nation includes approximately 200 roads and streets covering more
than 9,000 linear miles. Maintaining this infrastructure is the
responsibility of the Navajo Nation Department of Transportation (DOT).
Historically, much of the organizational-knowledge of the whereabouts and
conditions of roads has been in the minds of the “old-timers” and field
operators. Much of that information gets lost when an individual retires or
leaves the organization, and it's almost impossible to report or do analysis
on information that sits inside someone's head. Part of the solution begins
with the development of electronic maps and geographic information systems
as the “inventory of record” for the physical assets of the jurisdiction.
The other part is to record the maintenance and construction activities
performed on each asset in the inventory providing the ability to
categorize, analyze, and report in a way that promotes management best
practices.
As
the Navajo Nation DOT completes the inventory of its 9,000 miles of streets
and roads, the purchase of PubWorks was a natural step to
implement recording, reporting, and analysis of their field activities…which
can now be linked to specific individual asset records within the inventory.
Throughout the Navajo Nation, many roads pass through several districts and
have different surface types along various lengths. This combined with the
growing number and complexity of funding sources and intergovernmental
agreements means that keeping track of what is done, where it's done, and at
what cost has become paramount to the successful operation of the DOT.
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