GIS Application In Assisting Road Bypass Design and Planning
Mohamad Nor Said, Mohamad Ghazali Hashim, Anuar Ahmad
Faculty of Geoinformation Science & Engineering
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
81310, UTM Skudai
Johor, MALAYSIA.
Tel 607-5530720
Fax 607-5566163
Email m.nor@fksg.utm.my
Abstract
New road construction either to improve existing roads or as bypass of a congested town
is among the current development projects that are being given serious attention by the
Malaysian Ministry of Works (KKR) in order to provide a better transportation services
to the public. Such projects certainly require a careful and thorough planning to ensure its
implementation really solves or at least minimizes the traffic problems and of course with
the least cost. Therefore accurate and up-to-date information is vital in supporting the
planning and design team in coming up with their proposed possible routes until the final
one is selected. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) has secured a project from the
Malaysian Highway Planning Unit (HPU), a section under KKR, to carry out an aerial
mapping and ground survey works in providing geospatial information required for route
selection and design. This paper elaborates on the experience of carrying out the project,
with a particular focus on producing an orthophoto map and applying GIS in integrating
it with other vector datasets (that come from ground survey, GPS and existing digital
maps and plans) to produce the final freezing zone plan of the property lots that are
potentially intersected by the proposed bypass.
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Abstract For The Map Asia 2006 Fifth Annual International Conference & Exhibition
Bangkok, 29 August – 1 September 2006