Hansen Information lands $1.5M deal in NJ
Software company Hansen Information Technologies has landed a $1.5 million contract with the New Jersey Turnpike Authority to help extend the life of roads the authority maintains.
Hansen's transit and rail business unit -- established last month as part of the Rancho Cordova company's acquisition of Spear Technologies -- will provide its enterprise asset management software to help manage roadway maintenance for the New Jersey authority.
The New Jersey Turnpike Authority maintains the turnpike and the Garden State Parkway. One of the most densely traveled roads in the nation, the turnpike covers 148 miles from the Delaware Bridge to the south to the George Washington Bridge to the north.
In July 2003, the authority assumed control over maintenance and operations of the 172.5-mile parkway from the former New Jersey Highway Authority. More than 600,000 vehicles use the turnpike daily, and about 1.1 million vehicles travel the parkway each day.
The software system will support the management of work orders, inspections, timekeeping, preventive and corrective maintenance, snow and ice removal, environmental accident containment and clean-up, and equipment damage tracking.
Hansen fills a niche by providing software that allows governments to pinpoint and record where work in the field, such as on roads and sewers, has been done, said Chuck Hansen, the company's chairman and chief executive officer.
Other companies, such as Oracle, offer commercial software packages that don't do that, he said.
"We have crumbling infrastructure, but they may not know where the work has been done and the condition of the assets," he said. "Then there's no way of justifying the roads you want to repair and the surface conditions."
When governments don't know where work is being done, they don't know how much capital to invest for repairs, he said.
"There still is a large part of government that hasn't even inventoried their infrastructure, let alone where they do the work," he said.
