Using data to improve maintenance processes

Dorset Council were looking to improve their grass verge maintenance. We were able to build a solution that mapped these areas, allowing the council to better estimate job cost and deploy contractors.

Time Saved

Faster deployment

No more Hand-drawn maps

The Challenge

Dorset Council wanted to map the rural verges in its county so that it could more effectively deploy contractors to cut and maintain them. The Council were previously using hand drawn maps to get costings and instruct contractors for each job.

The Solution

The team used FME to accurately identify roads and paths with verges, outside of town boundaries that required cutting and maintenance. Using polygons, FME was able to identify a metre-wide area to each side of the road and estimate the work required to cut these verges.

Dorset County Council improve the effectiveness of road verge maintenance with FME.

FME® automates data manipulation and transformation

Data rarely arrives in your environment in a state that’s ready to use. The repetitive tasks required to get it into a usable form are laborious and costly. FME® automates these data manipulation and transformation tasks, leaving you to work much more efficiently with your newly optimised data set.

Here’s the problem; you have lots of data from lots of different internal and external sources, but managing it all can be difficult. You’re faced with a unique set of challenges that have a large impact on the way you work:

Driving value for your organisation by making the most of your business intelligence.
Managing the complex combination of data sources, formats and destinations.
Dealing with evolving data, resources and requirements.