ITIS OBJECTIVES

The key strategic objectives of the Integrated Transportation Information System are to:

Provide all employees with the right data required to perform their tasks,at the right time and in a cost-effective way.
Allow a controlled exchange of information with external parties that support the Agency's activities or provide other public services for the South African community.

Keywords

Employees

Include all operational, staff and management functions.

Right data

Up-to-date, accurate, complete and the right level of detail.

Right moment

Right balance between urgency, volume and response time.

Cost-effective

Optimum of cost-benefit.

Allow

Physical access but also a commonly known data structure. (Standards)

Controlled

All access via authorisation mechanisms ensuring legitimate data usage.

Support

All activities performed by third party in the various processes.

Figure 1: ITIS Data Structure

ITIS is an integrated approach to the sharing and interrelating of technical performance information to SANRAL’s employees. All data is stored digitally in one database containing all information forming the basis for integration. Therefore, ITIS uses modern database technology (Oracle) as its kernel making it possible to store Alphanumeric (Text and Numbers), Geographic (Spatial) and Multi Media (Images, Audio and Video) in the same physical database. Thus, ensuring that the criteria of data-quality, no redundancy, data consistency and data “time-reference” are met as illustrated.