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Federal Highway Information System (BISStra)

Information systems today save data on the inventory of federal trunk roads, bridges and tunnels - including their age, condition, loads exerted by traffic on roads and structures and number of people injured or killed in accidents. The Federal Highway Information System (BISStra) was developed to allow a coordinated use of all these data for planning, administration and research. BISStra supports the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development as well as the Federal Highway Research Institute in performing their diverse administrative and research tasks.

BISStra is a geographic information system created on the basis of standard commercial software. It essentially consists of a core system and various specialized cells. The core system and the specialized systems are integrated in a software application. This allows information to be invoked according to standard, spatial definitions and visualized with the tools of the cartography system. All data items can be combined with the help of a database management system.

The picture shows a map Core system: Road network with node numbers

The core system saves all alphanumeric and geometric data on the trunk road network. It is used to represent the course and the geometry of federal trunk roads on grid background maps.

The Traffic Data cell supplies data accumulated at about 1,500 automatic and 12,000 manual counting stations. The Condition Data cell is used to manage information stored centrally by the Federal Highway Research Institute on carriageway condition, for example longitudinal and transverse evenness. The Route-Specific Accident Analyses of Motorways cell facilitates generation of subject-related maps and tabular lists under the aspect of accident research.

The regularly compiled TEN-T reports are generated by means of the “International Road Networks“ cell. The “Road Tax Table“ cell compiles the tariff lengths of the federal highways and trunk roads subject to road tax in a table (Mauttabelle).

The flexible evaluation options provided by this modern system make it possible to obtain information for a lasting support of research on road traffic systems.

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