Municipal Infrastructure Data Standard
Staff in the Transportation Services Division maintain the inventory of Brantford's infrastructure in accordance with the Municipal Infrastructure Data Standard (MIDS). This is a set of definitions that are organized according to a series of business rules that specifies how to store and manage information about networked infrastructure. The infrastructure currently included in the City of Brantford's MIDS database is 950 lane-km of roads, 450 km of water distribution, 390 km of wastewater and 330 km of storm collection. In the coming years we will be adding trees, trails and traffic control signs and equipment to this electronic data base. MIDS is essentially a specification for infrastructure owners that facilitate the collection, management and analysis of data.
The City of Brantford staff use the standard as a tool to design and implement infrastructure database and to ensure that all information pertaining to those networks is accounted for. MIDS promotes the strategic management of information and supports the sharing of data amongst multiple business applications while further enabling the exchange of that same information with service delivery partners, adjoining infrastructure owners and other stakeholders.