Infrastructure Management in Swiss Municipalities - Development of a Modern, Spatially Enabled Management Cockpit
Hofer, Simon et al.
Swiss municipalities own about half of the existing public infrastructure in the country, worth over 460 billion CHF. They face enormous challenges, not only in operating and maintaining the infrastructure, but also in planning replacements and future investments. Major parts of the entire infrastructure are nearing the end of their life cycle and will have to be replaced over the next decades. In order to meet these challenges, municipalities need suitable processes based on tailored infrastructure management strategies. Typical management instruments support these processes and help to plan, coordinate and make decisions based on key facts and figures. An interdisciplinary team from university, industry and municipalities developed a specialized instrument supporting an efficient and coordinated management of municipal infrastructure based on the combination of spatial and textual data. Key features of the cockpit include planning of long-term investment, coordinating the planned actions and visualizing relevant management information for both administrative and executive needs in a dashboard. The cockpit employs small, specialized apps (e.g. a map client or a project planning component) that can be combined into more complex applications. The apps utilize a number of common base components that implement much of the core functionality of the architecture. A data abstraction layer with pluggable data adapters allows the declarative definition and combination of data from different sources as well as the creation and management of references between objects from different sources using services. The modern and highly-flexible architecture does not require a change of responsibilities or of the data maintenance processes. The cockpit supports the municipalities in developing their infrastructure strategy and continuously monitoring the implementation progress. In this paper the core components of this service-oriented architecture are described.
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