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Prepared By
Prepared For
HIMS Limited
Joint Venture with
SATRA Infrastructure Management
Services Pvt Ltd
June 2015
Report Name:
RAMS User Manual
Reviewed by:
Raj Mallela, M.K.Saxena, Durga Konduru
Project/Contract Number:
Approved for issue by:
For NHAI: WBTA-12
Raj Mallela
For SATRA: 01041001
Date of Issue:
Project Manager:
June 2015
Raj Mallela
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1.2
OVERVIEW................................................................................................... 2-1
2.2
2.3
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
LIST OF FIGURES
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LIST OF TABLES
Table 2-1: List of Supported Browsers ............................................................................................ 2-1
Table 2-2: Recommended Softwares .............................................................................................. 2-1
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1.1
Introduction
Introduction
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has received financing from the International Bank
for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) in the form of a loan towards the cost of NHAI Technical
Assistance Project. NHAI intends to apply a portion of the proceeds of this loan to strength Asset
Management Capacity of NHAI and Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MORTH). NHAI
awarded the consultancy services contract entitled, Consultancy Services for Technical Assistance to
Strengthen Asset Management Capacity of NHAI and MORTH, with Contract No WBTA-12 to HIMS
Ltd, New Zealand in joint venture with SATRA Infrastructure Management Services Pvt Ltd, India.
The project commenced on 31 October 2014 with an expected completion date of 30 October 2017.
1.2
Chapter-3 User Interface Layout: This chapter describes the layout of elements and
their functionality
This document is primarily developed for general users of HIMS, as well as road engineers
who have the basic knowledge of road referencing concepts and general road management
and maintenance practices.
Pre requisites
2.1
Overview
RAMS is a web based service to access data from the HIMS central database and various
published reports. The service also provides with an easy and user friendly way to export data
and view the spatial locations and layout of roads, links, structures etc. with added support for
locating the same in Google Earth if it is installed already.
2.2
Supported Browsers
RAMS has been designed to be compliant with W3C web standards and will work with most
modern browsers that are standards compliant. Keeping in mind the various operating systems
available today, the preferred browser is Mozilla Firefox due to its cross platform availability. A
list of browsers and the support levels is detailed [see Table 2-1].
Table 2-1: List of Supported Browsers
S.No.
Browser
Support
Mozilla Firefox
Sea Monkey
Chrome
Opera
Apple Safari
Internet Explorer
2.3
Description
Availability
Google Earth
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Software
Description
Availability
Microsoft Excel
or
Apache Open Office
or
Libre Office
FireShot
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3.1
In RAMS, user is directed to the home page (see- Fig: 3-1), this page provides the user with access to
all functions provided by the application.
] button located at the top right corner of the screen. The main screen has five
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Header
Refresh
Layer
Information
Map
Slide Menu
Data Table
Pager
Collapse Button
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Collapse Button
3.2
Side Menu
The side menu (see Figure 3-5) allows the user to select different aspects of data contained in the
HIMS database; the data is categorized into various heads. There is also a section in the menu
devoted to published reports.
Currently Selected Head
Data Links
Other Heads
Data Links
Figure 3-5: Side Menu
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Clicking any menu head will cause the menu to display the data available under the particular head
and clicking the data link will allow the user to view related data in the Data Table or if it is a report, it
will open as PDF file in a new window (see Figure 3-6).
3.3
Data Table
The data table (see Figure 3-7) is provided to allow the user to view and filter data from the link
selected in the side menu.
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Column Headers
Data
Horizontal Scroll
Pager
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Group Rule
Add New Rule
Sub Group
Remove Rule
Clear Filter
Apply Filter
3.4
The Export Link (see Figure 3-12) in the top menu allows the user to extract data in the data table
area and save it as an XLS.xls (Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet) file; the exported file will have data as
per applied filters.
3.5
Map area (see Figure 3-13) is an interactive map viewer that helps the user view and select various
objects like Links, Structures, Traffic stations etc., and view the related information on the
Information Panel (see Figure 3-14) provided on the left side. Selection of Links, Structures or Traffic
station objects on the map causes a filter to be set on the data table, based on the Link ID related to
the object. To select an object, the user must first set the layer via the layer selector [see Section 3.6
Layer & Object Selector in Page 3-8]
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Figure 3-13: Map Area With Layer Control, Mini Map & Information Panel
The map area has 5 controls (see Figure 3-14) to help the user navigate and view information.
The Layer Control allows the user to toggle visibility of each layer.
The Pan & Zoom controls, as the name suggests, allow the user to pan and zoom the map. By default,
the map area is in pan/zoom mode for mouse control. Click and drag allows pan operation, while
scrolling the mouse wheel allows zoom action, and a special zoom to a window is allowed by making a
window /rectangular selection while keeping the shift key pressed.
Mini Map Control allows the user to see the current window with respect to the country and also pan
over large areas easily.
Scale & Cursor Position allows the user to view distances on the map and also get coordinates of any
point on the map.
Information Panel shows information related to any object selected on the map
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Layer Control
Information Panel
3.6
The layer and object selection (see Figure 3-15) controls are drop down lists that help the user to
quickly locate data about an object if the ID or parts of the ID are already known to the user. Both
these controls allow the user to either select using mouse clicks or by typing directly into the control
to filter the data. The filtering is not based specifically on starting or ending characters, rather on any
id matching with the character sequence typed in.
Figure 3-15: Top Menu With Layer & Object Selector Highlighted
The Layer Selector (see Figure 3-16) allows the user to specify a particular layer displayed on the
map. This control is also responsible for setting layers when viewing objects on the map [see Figure
3-14 Map & Layer Information on]. The selection on the layer selector also sets the ID list on object
selector.
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object information in the Information Panel (see Figure 3-14) as well as sets a link filter for the Data
Table [see Section 3.13 Data Table]
3.7
Google Earth
The Google Earth (see Figure 3.18) link on the top menu allows the user to open a file to show the
currently visible map area in Google Earth 1 , if the software is installed.
3.8
Charts
Charts are located at the top right menu on the screen (see Figure 3-19). It allows the user to
understand the available data of each link through graphical representation. Charts are available for
numeric data like Pavement Condition, Rutting Depth and Laser Roughness.
Link to download Google Earth is given in section 2.3 Useful Software & Plugins
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This control (See Figure 3-22) is responsible for selecting the type of graph required for Graphical
representation of the Link.
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Chart export (See Figure 3-23) provides options to print and download the charts in PDF and PNG
formats.
If you would like to see the video of the current section, click on the specific chart data, and the
system will prompt a message to play the video in next page.
Click on Ok to play video or else click on cancel button.
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If you click on OK button, system will open a new page and the basic details of the video like
Section Name, Link_ID, and Date of Survey etc. will be displayed at the top of the video.
Click on play [
video page.
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