Maintaining Contract Project Road Segments

A road segment is used to locate a specific section of a road as the site for a project's work or a portion of the project's work. A road segment can be described by a set of starting and ending latitude and longitude measurements.

A road segment can also be defined as a set of three starting and ending spatial coordinates (X, Y, Z) for use in GIS applications. Adding three-dimensional coordinates to a road segment record enables your agency to connect data much more efficiently. For example, an agency needs to know what highway projects fall within a newly-defined Threatened or Endangered Species habitat. If the road segment data is spatially enabled, this can take seconds to perform in a GIS program, but could take weeks to develop the project list if performed manually.

When you click the Road Segments tab on the Contract Project Summary, the system displays an accordion list of all the road segments associated with the contract project. Each row displays current values for the Name, Description, and Number fields and an Actions button.

To maintain a road segment record, expand the row to display all the available information. You can add and change information in these fields:

To add or change spatial coordinate information for the road segment, expand the Location section of the row. You can add or change information in these fields:

To delete a road segment, select Delete from the Actions menu on the road segment row. To reverse the delete action, click the Undo button.

To add a new road segment to the contract project, click the New button. The system adds a new row at the bottom of the list of road segments. All fields in the new row are blank. To create a road segment record, you must enter information in the Description field.

When you are finished making changes, click the Save button. The system displays a message to confirm that your changes were saved in the database.