Texas Reference Marker Automated RI-1 Diagrams (1909-1F)

The Automated Road Inventory (ARI) is a software application used to automate the generation of Roadway Inventory (RI-1) diagrams. The RI-1 diagrams, which are hand drawn visual roadway records created by the Division of Transportation Planning of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), depict all highways maintained by the Department. ARI provides full automation to generate a hard copy of the diagrams from an ASCII input data file that contains a roadway features description. The ARI process was developed by the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) as a system of C, UCM (User Command Macro), and MDL (MicroStation Development Language) programs that process roadway feature text data into graphical drawings. The process was developed within the MicroStation 4.0 environment and is designed with built-in flexibility in order to make customization easy. TxDOT will use a 486/33 MHz ISA microcomputer with 8 MB of RAM and 200 MB hard drive to run ARI. ARI is menu-driven and provides several clear and easy menus which allow the user to select from different available options, create RI-1 diagrams, preview them, and send them to either a local or network plotter. The customization ability of ARI opens the door to a multitude of other possible applications that require graphical representation of textual databases.