Geo-Enabling Asset Management

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Geo-Enabling Asset Management
Steven Eglinton
30 November 2011
The Asset Management Conference 2011
IET, London

Outcomes
• My involvement with GIS and Asset Management
• Geospatial at Tube Lines
• Lesson Learnt / Challenges
• Steps to Achieve Geo-Enablement
• From Project to Process Focus
• Opportunities
• Conclusions

My Involvement in Asset Management/GIS
• 12+ years in Geospatial Information Industry:
• 10 years - land/environment assets management
• 4 years Corporate Geospatial Information
Manager, Tube Lines (London Underground)
Now
• Director, GeoEnable
• Council Member/Director, AGI -
The UK Geospatial Membership Body

What is Tube Lines?
• Is an asset-management company selected by the UK Government to
regenerate and modernize the following London Underground Lines:
– Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly (JNP)
•Tube Lines Ltd is now part of Transport for London (TfL)

Approximately 2,100 employees
Assets and Network
227 escalators
71 lifts
2,395 buildings and structures
207 miles of track
251 trains
100 stations
1.75 Million Passengers each
Weekday

Contract
• Performance Contract between Tube Lines and London
Underground.
• Tube Lines is contracted to improve the assets and the
service.
• Pain/gain based on five measurement criteria:
– Capability - Journey time minutes,
– Availability - Lost customer hours,
– Service points - Number of system faults,
– Ambience - Mystery Shopper Surveys,
– Stations delivery - Delivery of projects against set dates.

Key Asset Information – Location (‘Where’)
Where
Who
WhatWhen
Why
How
• ‘Where’ is the key for context – but, this is granular enough in your
Asset Management System (AMS)?

Location (‘Where’) Applies to All Asset Groups
Civils
•Bridges & Structures
•Pumps & Drainage
•Deep Tunnels
•Earth Structures
Track Signals Rolling Stock
Premises Power
Mechanical
Services
Lifts & Escalators
Fire Protection Electrical Depot/Plant Communications
• All assets can be visualised in the GIS / mapping tools, when
encoded with the correct location codes (linear and non-linear)

Example: Civils and Track
In this example
Geographic View of:
• Civils
• Bridges &
Structures
• Earth Structures
• P-Way
• Plain line track
• P & C (switches)
SOURCES
GEOMETRY
Generated using geometry
(‘shapes’) take from CAD, survey
data and digitized in GIS (using
aerial imagery and LiDAR).
ATTRIBUTES
Held and mastered in Maximo
EAMS

Example: Signals and Track
In this example
Schematic View of:
• Signals
• P-Way
• Plain line track
• P & C (switches)
SOURCES
GEOMETRY
Generated using ‘Dynamic
Segmentation’ i.e. taking linear
reference from Maximo and
‘plotting’ location using track
centre line
ATTRIBUTES
Held and mastered in Maximo
EAMS

Why ‘Geo-Enable’ Asset Management?
Combines AMS and GIS capabilities:
• Organise information by location
• Facilitate integrated planning
• Report project progress
• Visualise assets in context
• Identify patterns and trends
• Validate asset location
• Accessibility of CAD and survey
information

Example: Track Model
Construction & Verification
Overview - all Tube Lines
tracks, centre lines drawn out
to grid full size
Detail - all tracks and points given
LCS coding.
All Points & Crossings (switches)
represented as discrete area assets
in the track model and the Maximo
database

We do more than GIS –
We use and manage all types of Geospatial data:
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
• Survey Activities (Laser Scanning & ‘Geomatics’)
• Building Information Modelling (BIM)
• Remote Sensing (Satellite, Aerial, LiDAR)
• Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS/GPS)
• Location Information (e.g. addresses, coordinates)
• Web Maps & Web GIS

What is Location Intelligence?
• Integration of Geospatial information &
technologies with business information to create
location-aware Business Intelligence, to enable
decision-support.
• Visualisation – dashboards, KPIs, maps, diagrams
• Often embedded in other sytems
Look-out for these synonyms:
• Geospatial Business Intelligence (GeoBI)
• Location Analytics

GIS - Think Information, not just a map
Data
Source(s)

Information Strategy
Does your Information Strategy include Geospatial?

From Geo-Centric to Geo-Enabled
• From a focus on Geospatial Technologies & Tools
• To embedding Geospatial Information in Business
Processes
Geo-Centric Geo-Enabled
CAD
GIS
1 2 3
CAD
GIS
Geo
Web
Think Spatially
Think Integration
BIM

Building the Basics for a Geo-Infrastructure

• To define where we are on the track – need a coding
system
( Legacy system specified by London Underground)
– N124 = unique area code
– N = northern line
– EB = eastbound track
– LO = local track
– 101 = 101 metres along track in direction from start of an area
We need Standards (& Codification)

Location Descriptions Before Robust Standards
‘EDGWARE STATION BETWEEN PLATFORM 2 & 3
FRONT OF P-WAY TOOL CABIN’
‘LCS CODE B097 – IMR - NORTH OF THE STATION
(NEAR THE MOSQUE)’
No use for our systems

Different Location Codes:
Where do we mean?
• New Signaling Assets use linear ‘Guideway’
• Stations and inter-station section codes
• Location Standard does exist in LU

Provides consistent location references
– LUL Cat 1 Standard 1-035
- Location Coding System (LCS)
– Controlled single source of truth
– Unique for all track down to 1m
– Unique for all rooms and cupboards
We must use this for how we describe
locations in our asset register (Maximo)
Location Coding Standards – 1
The Tube

UK Rail Industry
• Stations: National Location Code (NLC)
• Routes: Engineers Line Reference (ELR)
• P-Way (track): Track IDs
• Civils: Railway ID (= ELR and ‘chainage’)

• Postcode SW1 2AA
• 10 Downing Street, London
UK Postal Services

Who’s information is it anyway?
• Metadata, Metadata, Metadata
what is it?
what is it about?
what can I use it for?
who created it?
• Needed for interoperability
CAD, Survey, GIS, Locations

Spatial data
connection
(Web)
EDRMS
Documents/Records
AWMS
Asset and Works
Management System
GEOSPATIAL
Developing
Platform Integration - Geospatial / Asset Management
ERP
Enterprise Resource
Planning
Location Key
GIS
Geographic Information System
CAD Geospatial Database
Spatial Database
Common
Map-based
View

Location Intelligence for Project Planning
GIS
Integrated Line
Plan
• Date
• Location
• Work type
• Clashed
• Opportunities
Operations
Projects
3rd Party
Systems X
London Underground
Planning System
Data
consistency
• Location
• Work codes
• Work
description
• Date formats
• SABRE

Sometimes simple diagrams work!
Existing Modern
Infrastructure
Colour Coded
Interventions
Opportunity to
Rationalise activity
& closures
Image Source: John Woollett, Tube Lines

Benefits of Location Intelligence
1. Improved communication and interpretation
2. Adds context to data
3. Patterns and clusters become clear
4. Clashes/Opportunities for integrated works
5. Display trends and changes over time

Steps to Achieve Geo-Enablement:
• Communication (of business benefits)
• Cash (savings)
• Cost Avoidance
• Champions (create)
• Collaboration
• Common Data
• Common Tools
• Common Standards
• Competencies (define)
• Challenges (acknowledge)
• Cross-discipline
• Compliance (ensure)
• Common Goals (set)
• Communication (ongoing)
• Create a Culture of Change
• Continuous Improvement

SharedInformation
Shared Information
Cross-discipline Process Integration
Successful re-engineering requires a shift from projects and tools to
Service Delivery and Whole-life Asset Management
Bespoke client
and discipline-
based tools run
the project
Functions are acknowledged,
but project-based focus
dominate
Processes, Service
Delivery & WLAM
drive the business
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Function 4
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Stage 4 -
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Use with permission from: Apex Business Improvement Ltd

Opportunities for Change
• Cloud GIS / GeoWeb
• International Standards for Web Services (OGC)
• BIM – Building Information Modelling
• Sensor Web / Smart Networks / Smart Cities
• Mainstream Location Information
• Open Data
• Awareness and personal expectation
• Personal and business demand

Thank you – Questions?
Contacts:
• www.GeoEnable.com

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