The document presents the FBSIC project, a cadastre information system developed by Ferbritas, S.A. for effective railway infrastructure management. It emphasizes the importance of integrating geographic and alphanumeric data to enhance operational efficiency and decision-making in railway business processes. The system comprises various modules for data collection, processing, and management, aiming to provide accurate and accessible information for property management and planning.

1. Cadastre Information System
(FBSIC)
Mata, Luís
Gil, Fernando
Ferbritas, S.A.
Lisbon, Portugal
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2. Agenda
1. FERBRITAS, S.A.
2. The FBSIC Project
3. Presentation of the SIC Web Application
4. Conclusions
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3. Agenda
1. FERBRITAS, S.A.
2. The FBSIC Project
3. Presentation of the SIC Web Application
4. Conclusions
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4. Who are we?
Main Shareholder:
REFER E.P.E.
Portuguese Railway Infrastructure Manager
Ferbritas S.A.
The engineering company of REFER E.P.E.
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5. Railway specific approach
Transportation Construction
Research and Detailed Land Acquisition Management
Planning and
Development Design and Supervision
Operation
Transportation Infrastructure
Planning and Studies and
End to end railway infrastructure planning Operation Detailed Design
requires:
Construction
Quality Management
•Specific methodologies and multidisciplinary Control and Supervision
Project
and rigorous approaches; of Management
Materials
•Integrated management.
GIS, Cartography Cadastre
Topography Land Acquisition
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6. Information, activities, …
Integration No Integration
vs
Efficiency Waste of resources
Effectiveness Absence of knowledge
Results Missed opportunities
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7. Rail information
In Operation
Planning Feasibility Detailed Construction
Design
Maintenance
Several
One decade of information decades of
information
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8. Rail and GIS – our awareness
1. The modernization and maintenance of a railway network is an extensive process -
of decades - that generates a colossal volume of related and diverse information
during it’s long life cycle;
2. All this valuable and different information is produced, processed (or not) and filed
(or not) during many years by generations of people across multiple organizations
(and reorganizations);
3. Information for itself it’s not equivalent to knowledge;
4. Both are indispensable and represent significant value, to infrastructure managers
and operators.
Conclusion: Using a Corporate Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) to
integrate information and build up the appropriated
applications to railway business is one of our key strategic
options.
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9. Agenda
1. FERBRITAS, S.A.
2. The FBSIC Project
3. Presentation of the SIC Web Application
4. Conclusions
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10. Why a Cadastre Information System?
Cadastre
Property
Management Investment
Strategic and
Operational and
Planning Cost/Benefit
Engineering Maintenance
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11. Why a Cadastre Information System?
Business opportunities and responsibilities
Decision making
Accurate Business Effectiveness
Information Process
Knowledge Efficiency
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12. Why a Cadastre Information System?
Feasibility Studies
Preliminary Studies
Physical
Demarcation of
Environmental Property
Studies Construction
management and As-Built
Environmental supervision Drawings
Statement
Detailed Design
Availability of
Process of acquisition (negotiation, legal and tax
site for
issues, etc.)
construction
Environmental
Licensing Process
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13. Why a Cadastre Information System?
Conclusions:
-Accurate cadastre information is a significant input to other key activities of railway companies
(engineering, maintenance, operation, lease, …);
-A cadastre recovery process has an exponential ROI to the global business;
-Property means value! … if we know: Integration
• what we have;
• where it is;
• which rights and responsibilities;
• what is essential and what is dispensable;
• what is the potential profitability;
• what are the opportunities and what we want to do with it;
Results
• …
- It’s not only a matter of gathering accurate information. The purpose is to deliver
knowledge to promote business;
- It‘s worth it: it’s added value!
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14. FBSIC - General Objectives
• View, query and edit of geographic and alphanumeric information of land parcels;
• Quality control of cadastre and real estate;
• Traceability of the processes;
• Map printing and creation of formal documents;
• Final approval by the customer (internal or external);
• Scalable solution;
• Supported by standards for information technology and communication, and
interoperability;
• Long-term sustainability to the project.
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15. FBSIC - System Components
• Database …………………… (Alphanumeric / GIS): MS SQL Server 2008
• File Server …………………. Pictures, CAD files, Pdf...
• GIS Services .................. ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Image Server
• Desktop GIS ………………. ArcGIS / ArcInfo and its extensions
• Web Application ………. Taylor made solution: user interfaces, alpha/geo
editing, extended image support, automatic
document generation, linked with document
management
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16. One solution, seven modules
1. Field ……………………………….… collection of information at the field
2. Data Migration ………………… geographic and alphanumeric data
3. Information Processing …... validation for integration of collected data
4. BackOffice ………………….……. supporting system administration
5. Central …………………………….. view/edit geo/alpha information, quality
control, generation and printing of documents, …
6. Approval ……………………….…. enabling interaction and approval by the client
7. Domain Management …….. enabling an enterprise management of private
and public domain property
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17. FBSIC - Conceptual Architecture
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18. One solution, seven modules
1. Field ……………………………….… collection of information at the field
2. Data Migration ………………… geographic and alphanumeric data
3. Information Processing …... validation for integration of collected data
4. BackOffice ………………….……. supporting system administration
5. Central …………………………….. view/edit geo/alpha information, quality
control, generation and printing of documents, …
6. Approval ……………………….…. enabling interaction and approval by the client
7. Domain Management …….. enabling an enterprise management of private
and public domain property
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19. 1.Field (operation cycle)
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20. 1.Field (cont.)
• User Authentication;
• Access restrictions on a user base;
• Secured access via intranet to download and upload data;
• Data insert, edit and query:
- cadastral parcels, land parcels, entities, tax and property registers;
• Address validation according to postal format;
• Data validation (format and completeness) for cadastral parcels;
• Warnings and Errors Log for performance quality metrics;
• Data validation before submission to the central database;
• Autonomy of operation in offline mode.
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21. 1.Field (cont.)
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22. 2.Data Migration
Composed of four toolbars (ArcGIS/ArcEditor):
• Import of CAD data;
• Creating new layers;
• Validation of the topology;
• Validation of attributes;
• Table mapping layers;
• Automatic creation of polygons from lines;
• Association of annotations to features;
• Controlled upload to the central database;
• User and date / time log for each record.
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23. 2.Data Migration (cont.)
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24. 3. Information Processing
• User Authentication;
• Secured access via intranet to download and upload data;
• Validation and acceptance of data:
- Cadastral parcels;
- Entities;
- Tax and property registers;
- Land parcels.
• Recording of the work session (save my work);
• Submission to the central database.
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25. 3. Information Processing (cont.)
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26. 4. BackOffice
• User authentication;
• Data access restrictions for profile / user;
• Users definition;
• User profile definition;
• Definition of functionality by profile;
• Association of users to a profile;
• Access restriction by application;
• Access restriction by project and phase (in Field Module);
• Integration with Active Directory;
• Creation, copying and maintenance of projects.
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27. 4. BackOffice (cont.)
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28. 5. Central
• User Authentication;
• Data access restrictions for profile / user;
• Data insert, edit and query of:
- cadastral parcels, land parcels, entities, tax and property registers;
• Address validation according Postal format;
• Integration of geographic and alphanumeric information, imagery and
documents;
• Workflow control of the project phases;
• Query and generation of snapshots.
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29. 5. Central (cont.)
• Documents generation:
- Temporary Cadastral Report (.pdf)
- Cadastral Parcel Report (.pdf)
- Land Parcel Report (.xls)
- Easy Print (.pdf)
- Cadastral Parcels Plant (.pdf)
- Land Parcels Plant (.pdf)
- Land Parcels Extract (.pdf)
• Integration with the Document Management System:
- Property Registry Documents;
- Finance Documents.
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30. 5. Central (cont.)
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31. 6. Approval
• User Authentication;
• Data access restrictions for profile, user, phase and project;
• Project navigation;
• Cadastral and Land parcels information analysis (geographic and alphanumeric);
• Insertion of annotations and corrections to the data in analysis;
• Visualization of information to support analysis (criteria);
• Integration with vector information of the Engineering Project;
• Availability of measurement tools;
• Availability of search tools (query builder) ;
• History log of analysis and validation acts (what, who and when);
• Search by analysis state.
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32. 6. Approval (life cycle)
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33. 6. Approval (cont.)
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34. 7. Domain
• Access to data with user restrictions;
• Queries for Projects, Land parcels, Railroad Lines, Railroad Segments and KPs;
• Integration between of geographic and alphanumeric cadastre information;
• Visualization of context geographic information (orthophotos, military and street
maps);
• Control of the Land parcels process state;
• Automatic update of the Public Domain after acquisition of the Land parcel;
• View the history of parcel states;
• Generation of official documentation (Cadastral Parcel and Land Parcel Report,
Cadastral Parcels and Land Parcels Plants, Land Parcels Extracts);
• Integration with the Document Management System;
• Export of alphanumeric data, graphics and documents.
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35. 7.Domain (cont.)
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36. Agenda
1. FERBRITAS, S.A.
2. The FBSIC Project
3. Presentation of the SIC Web Application
4. Conclusions
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37. FBSIC – Central Module
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38. Agenda
1. FERBRITAS, S.A.
2. The FBSIC Project
3. Presentation of the SIC Web Application
4. Conclusions
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39. FBSIC – Accuracy and Efficiency
Data Integrity:
• Centralization of information;
• Validation of data quality (amount and form);
• Log into a relational database.
Data availability:
• Speed of access;
• Secure access to profile, functionality and design;
• Possibility of integration with other systems.
Usability of the data:
• Geographical and alphanumeric display;
• Generation of documentation;
• Analysis of efficiency indicators of the operational process.
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40. FBSIC – Integration
The integrating nature of FBSIC allows:
• to accomplish present needs and scale to meet future services;
• to collect, maintain, manage and share all information in one common
platform, and transform it into knowledge;
• to relate with other platforms;
• to increase accuracy and productivity of business processes related with
property management.
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41. Our experience
• It takes sometime to have a full and accurate data
base. But if the right priorities are taken, e.g. by Return
selecting relevant segments of network, then results D.B.
appear earlier and evolves in an exponential trend.
• Cadastre control (CC) contributes to cost-cutting:
taxation, liability, maintenance, …
• CC increases efficiency, effectiveness and or
cost/benefit optimization, related to key activities of
a railway operator or infrastructure manager:
engineering, maintenance, lease, network Cadastre Control
upgrading, facilities, …
Property Strategic
Management Investment
• CC is a crucial topic for every organization that and
and
Operational
Cost/Benefit
manages railway infrastructure. Planning
Engineering Maintenance
• Business demands it!
• It’s worth it!
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42. Thank you for your time and interest!
Obrigado!
Ferbritas, S.A. Luis Mata Fernando Gil
CEO GIO – Head of GIS
Rua José da Costa Pedreira, 11
1750-130 Lisboa, Portugal mata@ferbritas.pt fgil@ferbritas.pt
Tel: +351 217 511 700
Fax: +351 210 118 080
Web: www.ferbritas.pt
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