Urban Geospatial Management System

Introduction

The rapid development of Information and Communication Technologies plays a major role in the improvement of planning processes and utilization of resources in urban infrastructures management (Huang, 2003; Hamilton, Burns, et al., 2005; Hamilton, Wang, et al., 2005; Wang etal., 2007). However, the integration of new technologies stands as a big challenge for urban managers and engineers (Huber, 1990; Pierre et al., 2001a, 2001b; Quintero et al., 2005). Because the planning, design and operation of a complex urban system such as a city requires a complex information system in order to perform these operations with prospective success level. Today, public administrations have to integrate a wide range of data such as design data, maintenance data or geographic information from different sources and utilize these data in an operation of an urban infrastructure with minimum level of data loss or duplicity (Quintero et al., 2005) and maximum level of precision, consistency and integrity (Michele & Daniela, 2011). In addition to data, the service quality, financial status, time management, feasibility are some of the other aspects that have to be considered while realizing daily operations of an urban territory.