Baker awarded Mississippi roadway data collection contract

Michael Baker Junior, an engineering unit of US-based Michael Baker Corporation, has been awarded a two-year $3.3 million contract by the Mississippi Department of Transportation. Through the contract, the unit will provide image-based roadway feature data collection services along approximately 30,000 miles of designated highway and other classified roads within the state.

According to Baker Junior, the work performed will support traffic data collection, feasibility studies, geographic information systems (GIS), and highway performance monitoring system reporting. It added that the field inventory process would be carried out using global positioning system-based video collection technology.

This technology will facilitate the capture of digital images along each roadway, while simultaneously referencing the images to their associated real-world location. Baker Junior commented that this would enable both GIS and web-based users to view the images.

Ray Balentine, director of intermodal transportation planning at Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT), said: This partnership will allow MDOT to move forward in its mission of providing a safe intermodal transportation network. The data collected will be used as the backbone for the department’s safety analysis management system (SAMS) project, as well as for our GIS and federally mandated reporting efforts.

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