Infrastructure Management Use GIS to keep detailed, spatially accurate inventories of highway assets such as signs, signals, pavement, bridges, and lighting.

Rail Rail system operators use GIS to keep accurate inventories of facilities and report safety and performance statistics.

Public Transport GIS is an excellent tool for analysing service revenue, patterns, and usage by population demographics.

Aviation Use GIS for managing airport facilities, regulating use of airspace, and noise modelling.

Water Transportation GIS helps engineers build and manage port facilities and helps planners accommodate community and environmental constraints more easily.

Transportation professionals the world over have discovered and embraced GIS as an important tool in, planning, evaluating, constructing, managing and maintaining transportation systems.

GIS for transportation is used for a wide range of applications including:

• Modelling travel demand 20 years into the future for transport infrastructure planning using census analysis
• Analysing annual capital improvement plans based on network usage and condition
• Identifying, analysing and presenting airport noise violation
• Improving transport services throughout rejuvenated urban centers
• Evaluating environmental impact of new construction schemes