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Automatic Permitting
- Creates, edits, revises, issues, inspects, grants, or denies permits
- Handles agency’s specific/custom permit types
- Formalizes the permit decision process
- Assists users by applying built-in knowledge of permit policy
- Verifies application data (account balance, insurance, violation, registration, and background information)
- Validates weights and dimensions for consistency and accuracy
- Manages overall interagency review workflows
- Automates the delivery of permits
- Manages automated permittee notification of changing road/bridge/restriction conditions affecting outstanding permits
- Prints required trip and restriction information on permit
Intelligent Routing and Analysis
- Provides multiple methods for users to specify a route to be analyzed
- Evaluates user-entered routes for safe passage
- Automatically finds a route that can be approved in lieu of a user-requested route
- Handles multiple starts and stops for off-system routes
- Provides interactive maps for route selection and display of analysis results
- Automatically assigns road and bridge restrictions
- Can favor routes based on special routing procedures and route or functional classification
- Performs integrated live-load bridge analysis in real time
- Takes into account temporary restrictions
- Includes manual override and editing capabilities
- Reports reason and position of failure for rejected routes
- Allows underlay of aerial/spatial and other Web Map Service (WMS) data
- Mines data for review of permitted movements and transportation improvement planning
Restrictions Data Management
- Input, display, manage, query, maintain, and report temporary route restriction information via key-in or interactive map
- Define attributes
- Height
- Width
- Length
- Gross weight
- Axle weight
- Weight per unit of tire width
- Define crossover restrictions
- Analyze features for dual-direction travel
- Check multiple area restrictions for excessive issues
- Review all outstanding permits for restriction impact
Finance and Accounting
- Post charges in real time
- Provide audit trail of all transactions
- Exercise full account management
- Select appropriate account types (escrow, bonded, and receivable)
- Use accurate, automated fee assessment
- Process payments electronically
- Choose form of payment: cash, check, money order, credit card, or various escrow/bonded account types
Data Management
- Integrates existing data sources
- Captures both electronic and nonelectronic data
- Creates special and custom reports
- Allows ad hoc reporting
- Manages ecommerce options
- Complies with Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Networks (CVISN)
- Complies with Intelligent Transportation Systems-Commercial Vehicle Operations (ITS-CVO)
- Supports multistate permit readiness
Routing Data Requirements
- Highway characteristics available from GIS, databases, maps, etc.
- Bridge characteristics available from GIS, databases, maps, bridge rating systems, etc.
- Bridge structural models for live-load bridge analysis – Bentley bridge products AASHTOWare Virtis, AASHTOWare BARS, other engineering data
- Additional information describing the route system deemed important to the jurisdiction for proper route analysis
Communication Support
- Internet access
- Automated delivery of output documents via web, email, or fax
Database Support
- Oracle RDBMS
- Microsoft SQL Server RDBMS
- IBM DB2 RDBMS
- Other databases supporting ODBC drivers
User Community
- Used by approximately one-third of all U.S. state DOTs
- Has successfully issued millions of permits
- Developed on proven technology
- Uses core products that are continually enhanced with cost sharing benefitting all users
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