Streetlight Survey for 5G Small Cell Site Selection and Permitting

• Client: City of San Diego Planning Department

• Prime: Viutek Consulting, Inc.

• Timeline: 8 months

Viutek documented, reconciled, and compiled information for over 65,000 assets throughout the city of San Diego to create a reservation dashboard for 5G Small Cell installation. Viutek integrated a variety of datasets into a centralized geodatabase for use by field auditors, office staff and relevant client stakeholders seeking to use the data to inform their approach in selecting optimal locations to install broadband network technology assets.

Seven photos were collected of each asset and surrounding area to assist with network design. Viutek developed a system which allowed for the 450,000+ photos to be accessed from a cloud-based platform for use in the permitting process for installation.

Data collected included: fixtures present on each pole, presence of attachments, pole material, pole height, lamp type, and many other technical attributes required for 5G network planning and development. Additionally, seven photos were collected of the asset and surrounding area to assist with network design.

Viutek developed several solutions which allowed the team to perform the work more efficiently, including the use of alternative mobility modes, project dashboards to allow real-time data observation and analysis, as well as several custom GIS applications designed to facilitate stakeholder involvement.

Smart Sensor Deployment, Enterprise GIS Data Management, and RFP Support

• Client: City of San Diego Environmental Services Department

• Prime: Viutek Consulting, Inc.

• Timeline: multi-year contract

Initially subcontracting to Southern Contracting, Viutek Consulting completed a $16.03M project to convert 34,600 LS2 cobra head street lights from HPS and LPS to 12 different GE induction fixtures across 325 square miles in the City of San Diego. The project was in compliance with groundbreaking dark sky initiatives where 3000K fixtures were installed within a 30-35 mile buffer of local observatories. Viutek reconciled data from various inventories, a service that was required to meet criteria for collection of energy efficiency rebates. The data is shared via a read-only website, enabling the City and contractors real-time insight and transparency throughout the project lifecycle.

Upon successful completion of two separate competitively bid street light conversion projects (for which Viutek Consulting provided GIS support as a subcontractor to Southern Contracting and won an Exemplary Systems Award) the City of San Diego Environmental Services Department contracted directly with Viutek to provide staff augmentation. Viutek GIS is in the third year of this annually recurring contract. Under this contract, Viutek provides Request for Proposal (RFP) Development Support, Intelligent Node Deployment Support, and a Comprehensive Curbside Parking Audit. This parking data will be incorporated into the City's new City IQ Nodes, which will be used to improve parking conditions in San Diego. 

As-Needed Traffic Engineering Support for University Community Plan Amendment

• Client: City of San Diego Planning Department

• Prime: Kimley-Horn

• Timeline: Ongoing

Viutek Consulting provided ongoing traffic engineering support to the Planning Department at the City of San Diego. Under this contract, the first Task Order was an update to the University Community Plan Amendment Circulation Element. Viutek analyzed five scenarios for 80 intersections and segments requiring 50 to 60 GIS maps to evaluate two options, a Regents Road gap bridge over a canyon and whether to widen Genesee Avenue from four to six lanes.

Viutek analyzed traffic flow using Esri ArcGIS Network Analyst to determine the behavior of each traffic scenario given these potential developments to the transportation network. In December 2016, the City Council approved amending the University Community Plan and General Plan to adopt the No Construction of Regents Road Bridge and Reconfiguration of Genesee Avenue Alternative.

The City of San Diego requested travel shed reports for residents in this area that utilized public transit (bus and/ or trolley) to identify gaps or delays in transportation connectivity. On an accelerated timeline, Viutek delivered GIS maps with seven different starting points to inform decision makers regarding next steps within the University Community Plan.

Balboa Station Area Plan - As-Needed Planning Consultant Services

• Client: City of San Diego Planning Department

• Prime: RRM Design Group

• Timeline: Ongoing

Viutek provided mapping and analysis support for this project to provide recommendations for the areas adjacent to the Mid-Coast trolley station at Balboa within the Pacific Beach and Clairemont Mesa community planning areas. The recommendations address the future form of development in light of the introduction of the Mid-Coast Light Rail Transit (LRT) Trolley extension. Specific tasks included supporting community outreach and participation, providing an existing conditions report, mobility/transit assessments, urban design and visioning strategy, multimodal land use analysis, urban design, economic feasibility, parking and trip reduction, a traffic impact study, air quality analysis and biological analysis.

Viutek assisted in collecting data, creating data and generating land use exhibits. They also worked to obtain and analyze GIS data from SanGIS, including infrastructure layers, water/sewer lines and other types of utilities. Viutek used traditional GIS base-mapping technologies to support technical analysis and deliver recommendations consistent with public input received throughout the process. The specific plan provided policy recommendations which addressed land use, mobility, urban design, recreation, and conservation to enhance the Specific Plan Area.

As-Needed Civil Engineering & Consultant Services for Municipal Storm Water Program Support

• Client: City of San Diego Transportation and Storm Water Department

• Prime: Michael Baker

• Timeline: 30 months

Viutek GIS provided data collection and compilation services for hydrologic, hydraulic, green infrastructure and water quality modeling for the City of San Diego’s Storm Water Department. The scope of Viutek’s work included updating current GIS data of the stormwater and drainage system utilizing various resources including aerial photos, digital elevation models, street view images, engineering drawings, site surveys and data from adjacent and overlapping jurisdictions. 

The final data deliverable included rim elevation, invert elevation, pipe diameter, conduit type, junction type, structure type, inlet type, and width and depth dimensions of ditches. Viutek GIS overcame the challenge of scaling man-hours and human resources based on project needs and deadlines. By allocating field GIS technicians from other projects and training them quickly in order to collect the necessary data, Viutek GIS ensured that the project moved forward in a timely, efficient manner while maintaining the highest quality data possible.

Historical Monitoring Geodatabase Development

• Client: City of San Diego Transportation and Storm Water Department

• Prime: Wood PLC

• Timeline: 11 months

Viutek supported the development of a GIS repository database for the City’s historical stormwater dataset. The Enterprise geodatabase was the foundation for the development of a large-scale GIS with ArcGIS Server Enterprise which used a combination of ArcObjects, ArcSDE technology, and RDBMS software to define how data was stored, accessed, and managed by ArcGIS. The City requested that previously developed file geodatabases be integrated into the Enterprise geodatabase centralized location. The Enterprise geodatabase was populated with final and fully QC’d stormwater infrastructure data.

Historical monitoring data submittals comprised primarily of Microsoft Access databases and Excel spreadsheets amongst project-specific data formats. Viutek used the most current California Environmental Data Exchange Network (CEDEN)-formatted template to provide consistency of data formatting across various projects.

Viutek worked closely with the City’s GIS and LIM system staff to maintain compatibility and provide seamless integration of the historical dataset from the Enterprise vault to the LIM system. The Enterprise geodatabase was developed using SQL Server, then created and managed on Viutek’s computer network until the final product was complete and transferred to the City.

 GIS Data Collection and Project Management Support on the DVRPC Regional Streetlight Procurement Program

• Client: Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC)

• Prime: Keystone Lighting Solutions

• Timeline: 16 months

Viutek provided audit and project management support on the procurement and conversion of approximately 15,000 streetlights and 3,000 traffic and pedestrian signals. This project spanned nine counties and 3,800 square miles. Viutek supported lighting design and installation efforts by collecting contextual roadway data and providing tablets to installers to track progress, respectively. Viutek developed dashboards to be used by each municipality, and the prime contractor, for project tracking purposes.

Viutek determined priority lighting locations by creating data for existing conditions based on factors including street classifications, participation in an intersection, pole spacing, pedestrian conflict, and pavement reflectance based upon current data. Under the direction of the lighting designer, Viutek worked to identify typicals, perform photometric analysis and visualize how proposed design met or exceeded existing HPS lighting.

Audit Services for Statewide LED Roadway Lighting Reform Project

• Client: Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT)

• Prime: Ameresco

• Timeline: 19 months

Viutek provided significant financial, maintenance and energy efficiency savings for the State of Washington. Viutek delivered enterprise GIS services to support initial geocoding of assets, in addition to managing and conducting a comprehensive lighting audit throughout the state. Viutek staff fieldchecked approximately 30,000 WSDOT-owned luminaires and created circuit associations with 3,400 service cabinets.

Audit data empowered WSDOT staff with the transparency needed to make informed decisions moving forward to help manage, query and report on their lighting infrastructure. The project’s goal was expected to reduce annual energy usage by 2.6 million kWh (kilowatt- hours), saving $217,554 in utility costs, reduce annual maintenance costs by $36,900, and reduce annual greenhouse gas emissions by over 993 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.

City of Lake Forest Storm Drain As-Built Digitization Services

• Client: City of Lake Forest Public Works Department

• Prime: Viutek Consulting, Inc.

• Timeline: 24 months

Viutek worked with the City of Lake Forest, CA to index, rectify, and classify engineering drawings. Until Viutek began this effort, all of the city’s stormwater engineering records lived on (paper) engineering drawings. These engineering drawings ranged in age, from the 1960’s to the 1990’s. Our work enabled the Public Works Department to query, manage, and visualize stormwater-related data within a digital GIS. The Viutek team was primarily responsible for rectifying junction structures (i.e. manholes) and catch basins (i.e. inlets, outfalls, etc.)

This work required a strong attention to detail and a methodical QA/QC process, which Viutek’s Director of Operations devised and oversaw. Viutek also designed a custom GIS web map for the Public Works Department. This web map allowed for an interactive and user-friendly window into the data which Viutek digitized.

Viutek overcame the challenge of scaling man-hours and human resources based on project needs and deadlines by allocating staff resources from other projects and training them quickly in order to reconcile the necessary data to move forward in a timely, efficient manner while maintaining the highest quality data possible.

 Vision Zero Action Plan, Sidewalk Inventory and Repair Program

• Client: City of El Monte

• Prime: KTU+A

• Timeline: 15 months

Viutek surveyed 300 miles of sidewalk in the City of El Monte, CA. The effort was performed to facilitate the implementation of the City of El Monte’s Vision Zero Action Plan (VZAP), which addresses multiple public- facing infrastructure challenges to reduce traffic accidents involving pedestrians and cyclists.

Following the initial sidewalk survey, Viutek was contracted to continue providing GIS services for the City of El Monte, analyzing collision data, identifying related public safety hazards and developing an approach for implementing appropriate countermeasures.

Through the creation of collision heat maps, project dashboards and online web maps, Viutek provided conceptual visualizations illustrating “hot spot” locations for proposed safety programs. In addition, Viutek’s custom dashboards provided project stakeholders with a comprehensive summary of data collected throughout the development of the Vision Zero Action Plan, enabling their ability to communicate high-level project information.

Viutek provided recommendations based upon research for similar projects and programs across the country, as well as an analysis of effective measures already implemented, through a cost-benefit assessment.

 Street Lighting Audit and LED Conversion

• Client: City of Columbia

• Prime: PATH Company

• Timeline: 2 months

Viutek provided a comprehensive street lighting audit, lighting design and installation support, as well as WebGIS development for 6,350 street lights across Columbia, Tennessee. Working with the municipality and public utility, Viutek collected pole ownership to help both parties identify where they own streetlights and other specified fields to aid with lighting design and construction.

In order to best inform PATH’s lighting designer, Viutek collected several contextual roadway items for each street lighting asset, including: pole spacing, roadway classification, pedestrian conflict, roadway width, pole configuration, pavement type, and number of lanes.

 Street Lighting Audit and LED Conversion

• Client: City of Goodlettsville

• Prime: PATH Company

• Timeline: 2 months

Viutek provided a comprehensive street lighting audit, lighting design and installation support, as well as WebGIS development for 1,150 street lights across Goodlettsville, Tennessee. Working with the municipality and public utility, Viutek collected pole ownership to help both parties identify where they own streetlights and other specified fields to aid with lighting design and construction.

In order to best inform PATH’s lighting designer, Viutek collected several contextual roadway items for each street lighting asset, including: pole spacing, roadway classification, pedestrian conflict, roadway width, pole configuration, pavement type, and number of lanes.

 Streetlight Audit and Lighting Design Support

• Client: City of New Albany

• Prime: PATH Company

• Timeline: 14 months

Viutek provided a comprehensive street lighting audit, lighting design and installation support, as well as WebGIS development for 1,400 street lights across New Albany, Mississippi. In order to best inform PATH’s lighting designer, Viutek collected several contextual roadway items for each street lighting asset, including: pole spacing, roadway classification, pedestrian conflict, roadway width, pole configuration, pavement type, and number of lanes. An editable front-end web mapping application was developed for PATH to create boundary polygons for their mock ups, filter lights based off of design attributes, to help assist their lighting design efforts.

 Streetlight Audit and Lighting Design Support

• Client: City of Lawrenceburg

• Prime: PATH Company

• Timeline: 14 months

Viutek provided a comprehensive street lighting audit, lighting design and installation support, as well as WebGIS development for 2,600 street lights across Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. In order to best inform PATH’s lighting designer, Viutek collected several contextual roadway items for each street lighting asset, including: pole spacing, roadway classification, pedestrian conflict, roadway width, pole configuration, pavement type, and number of lanes. An editable front-end web mapping application was developed for PATH to create boundary polygons for their mock ups, filter lights based off of design attributes and help assist their lighting design efforts.