Jacobs’ Digital Roadmap

Jacobs leverages StreetLight Data to help prioritize our clients’ investments in data, tools and labor to enable decision-making that meet your key performance metrics.?

The challenge: Our DOT clients have access to abundant data and connectivity, making the promise of data insights alluring and perhaps overwhelming. Organizations do not fully understand what data they have, its quality and what data analytics can be performed to best assist in solving problems.? Our clients are excited about digital solutions but look for guidance on where to focus their attention.

The solution: As you invest in the digital space, it’s critical to have a Digital Roadmap or plan that outlines when and how your organization is making advancements. Jacobs leverages StreetLight Data and our other digital tools to help prioritize our clients’ investments in data, tools and labor to visualize challenges and trends to enable decision-making, helping meet your key performance metrics. ?

We’re a trusted partner: Jacobs is a trusted partner with our transportation clients and brings a vast understanding of the available data and data analytics to enhance your decision-making. ??

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You’re on a road trip to a new and exciting place. Your favorite songs are on the radio, and you have miles of empty highway ahead of you but you are missing something - a map. ?You have no idea where to go next or how to get there. ?

While that might be a thrilling prospect for some, large organizations rely on roadmaps that leverage emerging technologies to move people, goods and information effectively and safely.

Jacobs is a trusted partner with our transportation clients bringing vast knowledge of the available data and data analytics to enhance your decision-making.

Our clients are excited about digital solutions but look for guidance on where to focus their attention. Like other organizations, some of the challenges they face are:

• Understanding what data they have, where there are gaps and what data analytics can be performed to provide insights to help solve problems.
• Breaking down silos within their organization to effectively gain the benefit from shared data.
• Effectively managing the data, including having the right programs and systems.

As you invest in the digital space, it’s critical to have a Digital Roadmap or plan that outlines when and how your organization is making advancements. There is abundant data and unlimited connectivity, making the promise of data insights alluring and perhaps overwhelming. However, our role as consultants is to advise on the validity of those insights while focusing on the client’s goals and needs.? The key is determining where to prioritize the investments in data, tools and labor to ensure that the insights gained truly add value to your operation, helping meet your key performance metrics.

A Digital Roadmap must start with strategic goals rather than with a solution looking for a problem to solve. With our depth of expertise, Jacobs is a strong partner providing advice on how to prioritize those investments through critical elements such as:

Each element above requires significant coordination with the organization. We facilitate working sessions with various departments, including IT and mobility, planning, decarbonization, operations and maintenance. The workshops focus on breaking down the internal silos and finding synergies between the departments, leveraging data to solve multi-departmental challenges. Then, we develop strategies to establish a data hub where the data is readily and easily available to the organization, easing the obstacles of delivery and adoption.

In addition to the internal working sessions, external partners and stakeholders are also part of the process. For a recent Smart Mobility Roadmap, we had more than 100 stakeholders throughout the state engaged in workshops. The public experience and technology efficiencies cross jurisdictional and departmental boundaries, so interoperability and coordination with outside partners is crucial to any roadmap's success.

Data itself means nothing until it can actually impact the way you work.?When developing a roadmap, we focus closely on identifying and prioritizing your needs then outlining a strategy for creating or acquiring tools to immediately put your data to use. Usually, a component of that is a data hub where the data can be shared more efficiently across the organization ?ensuring the most recent data is visible and accessible. Data can then be integrated and enriched to generate new, more meaningful insights. For example, in several recent studies, we enhanced traffic and safety data by bringing in Justice40 data to ensure we applied an equity lens to the decision process for capital projects.??

Integrating data into one single source of truth allows you to run analytics on trusted data and better understand where transportation issues and trends exist.? Our tools not only enable decision-making but also provide effective visualization to aid in stakeholder communication and leadership buy-in.?

It is an exciting time to be at Jacobs, focused on the digital space for transportation clients. We have identified Data Solution as one of our strategic accelerators and are at the forefront of providing digital solutions and consultancy to clients. We’re one of the strongest?transportation consulting firms?and have added digital capabilities, products and tools to our growing portfolio. From products like StreetLight to digital twins and Artificial Intelligence (AI), our team brings a depth of digital solutions to enhance our best-in-class engineering practice.??

Why Jacobs?

Our clients are navigating the digital transformation and growing cyber risks. Positioned at the forefront of this growth, we’ve placed data solutions at the heart of our business and in our Boldly Moving Forward strategy, adding digital capabilities, products and tools. At Jacobs, we serve as a trusted digital transformation partner for our clients. We recognize that every client will adopt digital technologies at their own pace, and we’re there to support them at every step of their journey.

For more information, contact Farhan Shaikh: [email protected] or Teresa Crisp at [email protected].