MAPPING AND CADASTRE
Moscow State Urban
Cadastre Service
ability and transparency in managing urban
development.
Moscow Urban Cadastre
The Moscow Urban Cadastre has supported
more than 14,000 qualitative urban decisions, and thousands of town planning mistakes have been avoided, saving considerable
financial resources. Reliance on the Urban
Cadastre contributed to tangible positive
changes in the architectural image, development of infrastructure, and improvement of
the quality of life of the residents of
modern Moscow.
Disintegrated information systems of various
complexity, cost, and technical level were
unable to resolve, and slowed
down, the solution of the key
problem - provision of sustainable development of the city
as a single organism. Only
through the integration of
information resources of all
urban systems and services is
it possible to achieve practical
results and justify the investments to urban information.
Information provided by the Urban Cadastre
includes data related to the existing land-use
pattern of the city, town planning regulations
in force, ongoing urban and architectural
projects, town planning, and the urban prop-
erty values. Under the growing variety of land
ownership types in Russia, the urban cadas-
tre is acting as the key mechanism for sustain-
Bentley technology enables a
cadastral report to be prepared
for any applicant in two hours
or, since January 15, 2005, to get
access to cadastral information
on the Internet. ;
PUBLIC WORKS
Customized
Hydraulic/Water Quality
Model Interface
Black & Veatch Corporation
Black & Veatch’s client, a large wholesale
water supplier, needed a way for its water
quality, planning, and engineering professionals to perform hydraulic simulations. For
example, the wholesaler must provide each
of the six communities it supplies with a
monthly report on how much water came
from each of 14 sources. Initially, the client
relied on Black & Veatch to perform this routine modeling task. Enabling the client to do
such work in-house would provide flexibility
and cost savings. However, training all of the
staff on the model and the underlying
hydraulics was prohibitively expensive.
Black & Veatch developed a simple interface
for water distribution modeling using
WaterCAD and its customization technology,
WaterObjects. Menus prompt users for
information specific to the water system,
using familiar facility names. The program
configures and executes WaterCAD in the
background, without the user having to learn
and use WaterCAD. Custom reports, tables,
and time-series graphs let the user quickly
review and summarize flow, pressure, and
water quality results from the simulations.
The time to conduct a simulation and obtain
results for routine analyses has been cut in
half, boosting productivity and saving costs.
In addition, the decision-support power of a
water distribution model is now in the hands
of a larger number of professionals. ;
