Aceh Road Network

District road network and condition (per 100 meters) in Pidie and Bireuen

The UNDP/ILO project “Creating Jobs: Capacity Building for Local Resource-based Road Works in Selected Districts in NAD and Nias” ran from March 2006. Its aim was to support the Aceh Government in improving livelihoods by building the capacity of local government to generate employment through investment in rural infrastructure, particularly roads.

Year

2011 - 2012

Organization

International Labour Organization

Partners

UNDP, with Public Works (BMCK) and Bappeda of Pidie and Bireuen

Role

GIS Officer

Tools

Garmin Montana GPS, ArcGIS, TileMill, TileStream

Team

Benny Istanto, Mohamad Lutfi, Yusrizal, Fahrurrazi, and local Public Works staff in Pidie and Bireuen

Reference

Creating Jobs: Capacity Building for Local Resource-based Road Works

My role

I worked as GIS Officer alongside an engineer and a database specialist, to:

Assess the GIS system in use, the available GIS and GPS data, and the data-flow processes.
Prepare a work plan and budget for developing and implementing a GIS system and the data collection behind it.
Design a basic functional GIS, taking into account stakeholder requirements and relevant national standards.
Test the protocol, checking effectiveness, integrity, relevance, internal and external consistency and validity of the GIS and its data, and ensure compatibility with the MIS/database system being developed in parallel.
Develop training modules and deliver training, in the classroom and on the job, to Public Works and Bappeda staff working with GIS.
Document the design and write user guidelines for the delivered system.

The challenge

There was no road network in GIS format. What existed was a spreadsheet, with no information about road condition. I also had to work with field supervisors and technicians who were expert at their own job, with pen and ruler, but had little exposure to the technology.

Since the goal was a road network and condition dataset in GIS format, the first and most important activity was capacity development: teaching those field staff GIS and GPS, and a mobile data collection approach to speed the survey up.

What was delivered

Institutional capacity development for the government counterpart: 398 trainee-days, 120 men and 36 women (2011), and 538 trainee-days, 31 men and 8 women (2012).
District road and bridge condition survey completed for about 750 km of district road in Pidie and about 850 km in Bireuen.
District road and bridge condition spatial data with data attribute for every 100 meter of road:
- Road information: start and end point, coordinate, number of road network, suffix, length, status, classification, sub-district, village, pictures
- Condition: good, fair, fair/damage, damage, heavy damage
- Pavement: concrete, asphalt, gravel, stone, dirt
- Other: width, shoulder, other construction (wall/intake)
- Bridge: kilometers location, type, coordinate, extend, across, condition, pictures