INDUSTRY CASE STUDY:
TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENTS

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Industry Challenge

The national highway system encompasses more than 4 million miles of roadways and supporting infrastructure.   Transportation Departments play a vital role in planning, maintaining, and improving these infrastructure assets.  During emergencies, Transportation Departments often become a first responder agency to assist in evacuation, rerouting of traffic from high hazard areas, debris removal, and other emergency protective measures.  Transportation Departments routinely plan, train, and exercise to proactively manage capital improvements, comply with regulatory compliance, foster public participation, and maintain skilled staff to manage day-to-day operations and respond when needed.

Odysseus Solutions

Odysseus Offers a Programmatic Solution for Transportation Departments

Odysseus™ | kms

The Odysseus™|KMS provides transportation engineers with a central repository where plans and compliance reports can be accessed and shared by staff, key stakeholders, and partners.  The secure yet flexible virtual collaborative environment allows for the efficient development, maintenance, and update of planning doctrine.
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ODYSSEUS™ | CPM

The Odysseus™|Compliance Metric Tools are a data-driven, assessment that allows transportation engineers the ability to systematically evaluate the compliance to various governmental and industry recognized programs. 

ODYSSEUS™ | AAT

The Odysseus™ | AAT offers transportation engineers the ability to develop customized assessment tools that can be used to evaluate, assess, and understand public works activities.

ODYSSEUS™ | cbt

​The Odysseus™|CBT allows for the delivery and tracking of learning across the Odysseus™ enterprise. Your programs, courses, and exercises can be harmonized with transportation system planning, education and outreach activities, and other program efforts.

Featured Best Practices

• Planning
• Community Outreach
• Stakeholder Management
• Compliance Metrics
• Participation

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Transportation Planning

The Odysseus™ | KMS gives transportation engineers an online tool dedicated to the development and maintenance of plans and reporting requirements.  Odysseus™|KMS offers public works professionals the unique feature of providing standardization and flexibility in a collaborative environment.  This union greatly increases your organization's ability to manage and coordinate transportation system activities.  

Community Outreach & Education

The Odysseus™|CBT plug-in provides organizations with an integrated learning management system that allows transportation departments to more effectively engage partners and stakeholders by delivering and measuring the understanding of important transportation development and transit issues.  Odysseus™|CBT provides a platform to deliver and manage customized computer-based training, track course assessments, award certificates upon course completion, and in-depth reporting. 

Community Stakeholder Management

In today’s environment of fiscal efficiency, limited availability of resources, and the necessity to balance competing demands, it is imperative that the engagement of assigned work groups and key stakeholders is efficient and effective. The stakeholder management tool within the Odysseus™|KMS will assist in documenting the planning process, provide a method of on-going committee collaboration, offer an archival repository of planning meeting minutes and information, and ensure the active participation of committee members and key stakeholders throughout the life-cycle of the planning process.

Industry & Regulatory Compliance Assessments

Designed from the Odysseus™|AAT architecture, the Odysseus platform offers a customized compliance assessments tools that are consistent with local, state, and federal regulatory requirements.  Transportation engineers can assess their compliance and integrate the results into their existing reporting and planning framework.

Community Participation and Awareness

The Odysseus™ enterprise offers a variety of tools that can be used to efficiently engage stakeholders and partners, and solicit their participation in important transportation infrastructure decisions. Customized Odysseus™|CBT interactive planning participation module allows committee members, stakeholders, and the public to learn about current programs and provide real-time feedback and input in community  matters. Customized Odysseus™|AAT survey instruments allows community partners and stakeholders to provide input in the planning process and inform key transportation decisions that may affect neighboring communities.