About RIS

Road Information System (RIS)

National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has developed Road Information System (RIS) for Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) for the length of 5,846 km. RIS comprises of computerised time series database on National Highways attributes like traffic analysis, pavement condition, road inventory, asset condition on the Geographical Information System (GIS) interface along with economic modeling with HDM – IV software.

Road Information System (RIS) has several components which are classified into two groups i.e. core system and support modules.

RIS Core System: Modules included in RIS core system performs the primary RIS functions like:

Locational Referencing System (LRS): To provide a common locational referencing system for the National Highway network.
Asset Management System (AMS): To setup and maintain asset management data such as carriageway inventory, off-carriageway features, accesses and wayside amenities.
Pavement Management System (PMS): To setup and maintain information related to pavements such as pavement condition, pavement structure, pavement history etc.
Environmental Management System (EMS): It comprises functions that will setup and maintain information related to each climate zones within the NHAI highway network area and data on vehicle emissions and noise generated.

Traffic Management System (TMS): This system provides important traffic management information to assist in the prioritization of projects and the design of maintenance or rehabilitation works. The TMS includes traffic survey stations, AADT and traffic loading etc. It is also setup and maintains a national vehicle fleet including physical characteristics and economic parameters.
Accident Management System (ACMS): To setup and maintain summary accident information and their locational referencing on NHAI highway network.
Bridge Management System (BMS): To efficiently setup and maintain bridge inventory and condition data as well as estimating maintenance cost for use in HDM-4.
Toll Management System (TOMS): To setup and maintain information about toll plazas and their locational referencing on the NHAI highway network.

Document Management System (DMS): To setup and maintain information about documents stored in the RIS database.
Performance Monitoring System (PMTS): To setup and maintain information about performance indicators and standards related to various NHAI performance-based contracts. Top

RIS Support Modules: This second group is used to ensure the safety and security of the RIS. Modules included in this group are used to perform following functions:

Security & Access Control Module (SACM): The access to RIS system will be managed by the security and access control module from within the RIS. It will comprise functions such as the maintenance of system access rights and the allocation of profiles to users.
System Information Module (SIM): The SIM store a comprehensive data dictionary of all types of information stored and used in the RIS. It will also store policy documentation, user documentation and manuals and any other system infrastructure information.
Ad-Hoc Query Module (AQM): The AQM is a user-friendly front end for linking to any system within RIS and extracting highway management information in the form of standard reports and graphs and thematic maps between RIS systems or from a specific system.
HDM-4 Integration Module (HIM): The HIM will be used as a decision support tool, and its outputs will be used to generate various graphs and reports which will aid NHAI senior highway managers in the task of determining optimum funding allocations, producing strategic maintenance and improvement programs, and investigating policy scenarios, etc.
Geographical Information System (GIS): The GIS module will be as a user-friendly front-end for linking to any sub-system and will extract information for highway management in the form of standard viewing operations, standard thematic operations, standard edit operations and thematic map queries. Top

FAQ

What is RIS ?

Road Information System (RIS) is consolidated, interrelated and analytical information on the highway component characteristics, based on continuously updated data, readily available at the users end.
Information would include on all highway components like geographical location, asset, traffic, pavement, bridges, accidents, operating level of service and costs, environment, etc.
RIS, would provide information of a highway as a whole or by its individual link stretches defined by nodes.
RIS helps in rational, quick and on time decision making, optimizing resources, equitable distribution of resources, minimizing costs, maximizing productivity of highway users, prolonging the life of assets, minimizing life cycle costs, measuring level of service and improving environment.

What are the uses of RIS?

RIS is useful in Policy formulation, highway development planning, investment programming and budgeting, establishing benchmark indicators, evaluating policies and programming, identifying black spots, estimating potential toll revenues, estimating costs of operation and maintenance, locating transshipment hubs, and protecting the assets. Top

Who are the users of RIS?

The stakeholders of RIS include:

• Ministries of Central and State Governments
• Planning Commission
• Corporate Houses (Public and Private Sector)
• Financial Institutions
• Investment Entrepreneurs
• Highway builders and Toll Companies
• Equipment Manufacturers
• Truck Operators
• Tour Operators
• Logistics Firms
• State Police
• Real Estate Developers
• City Managers
• Academic and Research Institutes
• Consultancy Firms
• General Public

Who developed RIS?

RIS, presently covering the Golden Quadrilateral, has been designed, developed, installed and operated by a joint venture of international companies led by M/s CES, for the NHAI. World Bank has funded and guided the project. The IT Department of NHAI has overseen and coordinated the system development. Top

Guide For Accessing RIS Application

Go to URL http://www.nhai-ris.org
Public user can enter in RIS by clicking “Enter in RIS Application” link available on the home page
AutoDesk Mapguide Viewer is needed for viewing the GIS maps. If client machine does not have AutoDesk Mapguide Viewer, then user is prompted to download AutoDesk Mapguide Viewer 6.5. User is requested to click the “Yes” option on AutoDesk Map guide download dialog box.
User is requested to download AutoDesk Mapguide Viewer on the local machine and subsequently install the same.
Refresh the page after the completion of Mapguide installation.
The main GIS interface page contains :
Menu with a collection of sub menus at the extreme left
Map Window in the center (for graphic map viewing)
Layer panel to left of map window (for map layers handling)
Map handling Tool bar at extreme right
Locational query tool on top of the Map Window (for graphic Locational queries)
The map window also has a powerful popup menu on right click in the map window, facilitating efficient map handling.
Within RIS the users can query and obtain user defined data and information using different subsystems embedded in the GIS Interface page as submenus, with regards to :
Road Locational details
Road condition and Pavement
Traffic and related aspects
Availability of Assets and Amenities along the road
Bridge condition and other Bridge details
Toll Plazas details
Road Accidents details and sensitive zones
Contract performance of different road Stretches
Document details and their accessibility
Apart from these utilities, there is a power full GIS query module with a facility to query all the critical Information related to highways and view the resultant as a graphic entity on a thematic map.
Additional thematic information of general purpose is also made available to cater the needs of the common users’ requirement. Top

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