Missouri Department of Transportation

An Award-Winning System

MCP then initiated a multiyear effort to design, develop, test, and implement the transformational MoDOT Management System (MMS). The system was based on the .NET opensource development platform, Esri’s ArcGIS geospatial platform, and Oracle’s suite of applications and infrastructure platform. MMS enables the department to perform several critical tasks more efficiently, including:

• Establishing daily crews and assigning their activities and equipment
• Documenting hours worked, equipment and materials used, and the locations where work was performed
• Tracking planned versus completed work
• Analyzing safety data from various sources and reporting safety-related incidents and observations.
  
  

The Results

The results have been tremendous to the point that the project’s first phase received the Missouri Governor’s Award for Quality and Productivity, which recognizes service excellence, efficiency, innovation, process improvement, and employee ingenuity.

MoDOT has benefitted from the new management system in numerous ways. The Federal Highway Administration approved an additional $25 million-30 million in federal reimbursement for work performed by MoDOT crews due to the accuracy of the planning and documentation process created within MMS.

The MMS also provides acts as a comprehensive system to collect and share important safety data while improving its data collection process for claims. The system gathers critical safety data and presents it in simple yet sophisticated dashboards that enable leadership to conduct predictive analysis and make essential decisions to identify, isolate, and correct safety issues before they damage equipment or, worse, injure personnel. The result is a dramatic improvement in MoDOT's safety culture.

Today MoDOT officials have streamlined access to a tremendous amount of rich data that enhances decision-making and results in more in-depth planning and more accurate reporting.