6. Need analysis
With consider to the need analysis that is done for transportation organization of Iran, the following data is needed to build a geodatabase for Iranian roads network:[2]
- Data related to roads ( such as freeways, highways, main roads,etc. )
- Foundations (such as terminals, parkings, facilities, police stations,etc.)
- City centers (such as province centers,etc.)
- X,Y and speed of mobile objects.
- Overlay
- Buffering
- Network analysis
- Terrain analysis
- Statistical analysis
- Point in polygon
- Query
- Location/allocation
- Visualization
Table 1. Comparison of different GIS software package
Based on the assessment of different software packages, it concluded that some of those package such as ArcGIS, LaserScan, Cadcorp, SmallWorld are suitable for Iranian Transportation Data Model and with more consideration from the above presented comparison, the following conclusions can be made that ArcGIS software package is the best choice for this purpose.
7. Implementing the ArcGIS Transportation Data Model
The following steps describe the process of designing the ArcGIS transportation data model:






