RESEARCH ON CONSTRUCTION AND APPLICATIONS OF
MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM IN HIGHWAY
ENTERPRISE
Huang Xi
Fujian Expressway Co., Ltd. , F27, Traffic Building, No. 18, Road Dongshui, Fuzhou, 350001, China
Liu Weikai
UFIDA Software Park, No.68 Beiqing Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100094, China
Keywords: Highway Enterprise, Management informationization, Business information platform for the integrated
management control.
Abstract: Through long-term studies on Highway industry, this article described importance and difficulty in demand
of information management from five aspects of the highway business, and putted forward solutions and
overall planning of constructing the integration platform of economic business management and control for
information. Demonstrate this idea by F enterprises as an example.
1 INTRODUCTION
Highway enterprises have some features in the
industry status and development trend and its own
characteristics, including:
 Monopoly and public service. To promote the
highway construction of traffic system, the
state actively encouraged investment in all
sources of funds. However, as it related to
people's livelihood, the State Highway
Administration on the whole is still in a
monopoly position. First, investment
monopoly, the state highway that is the main
component of investment accounts; Second,
business monopolies, highway toll operators
were licensed by the State; Third, local
monopoly, in a certain area, the less of the
parallel road with the industry competition;
 Capital-intensive And Sunk costs. It is well
known that highway is infrastructure, huge
investment and long construction period, as
well as capital payback period. Once the
capital invested, it can not be effectively
transformed into;
 Linear distribution, management and
maintenance are complex.
2 RESEARCH ON APPLICATION
HIGHWAY INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
This section analyzed the importance and difficulties
of expressway construction management, proposed
the theory that integrating management and control
for business operations management, and made an
assay on the application of key technologies.
2.1 Analysis of the Enterprise
Management Information in
Highway Industry
In the complex model of freeway, Management on
human beings, finance, goods are undoubtedly the
basic lines, the most important of which is financial
management. Form the "neural network" by
analyzing budget, finance, investment, operations,
revenue, cost and economic. Management activities
throughout the entire process permeate all aspects of
business execution.
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RESEARCH ON CONSTRUCTION AND APPLICATIONS OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM IN HIGHWAY ENTERPRISE.
DOI: 10.5220/0003602502750281
In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (BIS-2011), pages 275-281
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2.1.1 Economic Closed-loop involve
Resources Integration and Efficiency
During the highway project construction and asset
formation, it is necessary to ensure the safety of the
use of funds. Highway construction projects have
more locations, suppliers and longer periods.
Economic management must be in-depth assessment
of the project, budget review, tendering, bid
evaluation, contract development of the economy,
project execution, and final acceptance, the whole
process of preparation of final accounts.
After highway project completed, it had formed a
economic cycle which is the progress of charges -
expenses - loan management, and in it income and
expenditure of funds is very large, so it is important
to clearly reflect the flow of capital flow and
monitor the state.
In terms of highway maintenance, implement the
operation rules strictly, and control costs reasonably.
On inputs of manual works, materials, and
maintenance of engineering equipment and working
materials, the meticulous management is ensuring
the conservation of quality, while lowering operating
costs and increase operating earnings.
2.1.2 Economic Context Associated with the
Quality of Internal Control and Risk
Management
Because large-scale investment, long period, as well
as many links in fund management, a relatively long
time, it is easy to breed waste, misuse,
misappropriation, and other violations irregularities,
thus establishment of the internal control system and
risk management is undoubtedly critical.
Formed an economic network by combining
budget, finance, financial, economic assets, whether
is clear and can be traced back, is an important
indicator of the perfection degree for internal control
and risk. First, started from the business operations,
each data links are established in the relationship
upstream and downstream and any one of them can
be inquired traceability information on the front part.
Secondly, every aspects of specific responsibilities,
a clear record of operations, audit and supervision of
incompatible rights holders, so that responsibility for
duty, for people, all long-term preservation of
records.
2.2 The Establishment of Economic
Business Management and Control
Integrated Management Platform,
Internal Control and Risk
Management
To this end, two aspects need to build economic and
business regulatory framework integration. One is
the main line of top-down line, through the company
headquarters, molecular Company, branch,
department, business unit of execution. Another
dimension is information integration, from a
business executive, management, management
decision-making at three levels, from the bottom up,
layer by layer information collection, integration,
unity and integration to the shared data center
management and control platform.
2.2.1 Integrated Management and Control
Framework
As shown below is the integration of economic and
business regulatory framework, in support of
business management and control integration to
mainly achieve the following management
objectives:
 Company Headquarters — Subsidiaries:
Resources, Approval, Monitoring
According to corporate strategic planning and
highway business plan, established a comprehensive
budget system. Company headquarters is responsible
for integration of resources, asset allocation,
financing, approval of investment projects,
investment monitoring, cash management, funds
settlement and financial accounting, reporting and
analysis.
 Subsidiaries — Execution Unit: Business
Management, Implementation and Feedback
Business entities undertake concrete projects, roads,
business operations and business development. Road
Construction Company track and manage the life
cycle of the project budget estimate, plan, schedule,
quality, contract and cost. Supervision during
approval and budget, supervise the implementation,
and accurate or complete information on project
implementation feeding back into the financial,
human resources, assets and investment platform for
centralized control.
Operation Corporation is responsible for access
fees, road maintenance, toll revenue paid, operating
expenses and maintenance, through appropriate
projects, submitted to the funding plan and
appropriated the use inside diameter in the budget.
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Figure 1: The integration of economic and business regulatory framework.
Business selects the control mode according to
format, business data, particularly in relation to the
economic value of the inflow and outflow of data
records to be fine and back to the integrated control
platform.
Aimed at strategic performance management, use
a comprehensive budget management as the holder,
break plans down, carry out and implement business
unit. Improve the system construction, strengthen
the human, financial, and material resource, which
opened up the implementation of the strategic
management and business channel layer, domain
information of each control system to provide
upward feedback results of operations, analysis,
downward, and penetrated into the implementation
aspects of the business, ensuring real-time, accurate
data collection, operational control and information
sharing.
Finally, the implementation of ‘construction,
management and support’ business execution system
includes the project construction management, fee
management, equipment management, road property
resource management, road management and
maintenance management. Connect with documents
and process, Main lining by funds and programs.
2.2.2 Integration Platform
Achieve integration of economic activities,
information sharing and process unimpeded. Data
platform needs support layer. The core of business
management is Master data management platform,
application integration platform, data warehouse
platform, information portal.
 Master Data Management Platform
Master Data Management used as describe highway
enterprise business entity, including: personnel,
assets, bank accounts, subject, customers, suppliers,
materials, inventory, and the public's classification
system, coding system and other public property and
the basic file, involving Basic data of every
information systems in core business process. It is
also the foundation if want to realize Standardize
and streamline.
 Application Integration Platform
The important one of application integration
platform is Enterprise Service Bus, which can
simplify the system structure, reduce the number of
interfaces and support flexibility and scalability of
system. Achieve real-time control of all critical data;
improve decision-making efficiency and speed of
response, through classifying and integrating of all
data and information, unified information integration
platform.
 Data Warehouse
Based on Business Intelligence Technology, data
warehouse is able to complete data acquisition,
loading and converting. Then data processing,
finally, formed as Statement analysis, index analysis
and management of cockpit, Integrated into the
enterprise information portal to set out.
 Information Portal
Integrated accesses for internal and external
personnel, reduced the number of user accounts and
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passwords, made the interview convenient for
corporate customers, business partners and internal
staff, so that different people can get in a unified
content adaptation interface, improve security, easy
for management. It can lower the costs of investment
and distributed for different systems. Display
platform to provide personal information to
accelerate business efficiency.
2.3 Key Technologies
To overall information technology infrastructure
management system, we should focus to consider
the existing management of the enterprise. On the
one hand Expressway Company has the wide
distribution application, located in all the branches
across the province. On the other hand B / S
architecture technology has been mature. Therefore,
you can use the B / S technology architecture to
achieve business focus and data set management
objectives.
The mainstream of the current international
framework are J2EE and. Net, they all have their
own advantages, while J2EE seems more suitable
for the use of highway enterprise, on consider of
finance and cost.
There are many other highway monitoring
system, measuring system and charging system, data
of these systems will inevitably keep up financial
management system to produce data exchange
requirements, so it is necessary to provide an
integrated platform to meet the needs of data
exchange.
2.4 Application Deployment Model
Different management companies have different
business models and organizational structure. For
that, in the long term development of information
technology investments and maximize the principle
of conservation, should be fully centralized
deployment model. Application deployment diagram
shown below:
The centralized model has the advantages: highly
integrated operations and highly concentration of
data. However, the quality requirements of network
Figure 2: Application deployment diagram.
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access is relatively high, while security and stability
of the server, higher levels of requirements, which is
upgrading the server equipment and network
equipment, upgrading of the objective requirements.
2.5 Network Solutions
2.5.1 Structure
At all levels of the user terminal without having to
install software, but through the network data
transfer protocol HTTP, through the WEB server,
application server, the corresponding data
processing, then be stored on the database server.
For any end-user to view data and operations. This
network will help the real-time data transmission to
ensure data safety and reliability.
2.5.2 Analysis on Data Network Security
Analysis from the topology of the network, mainly
from the WEB server and database server for the
network security policy to ensure the security of
data, thus ensuring the security of the entire financial
system, reliability.
2.6 MIS Development Technology
Large enterprises continue to shape the development
of highway, also continued to improve enterprise
management mode, Management system
development for this technology must meet ‘one-
stop single sign-on, unified workflow engine, a
unified organizational structure and access control,
integrated database management’.
As shown below for the development of platform
system:
 Fundamental Technology Platform
This fundamental technology platform is based
J2EE, cross-database, Cross-operating system.
Support application distribution, security and
transaction management, providing dynamic load
balancing capabilities to provide system resource
monitoring and management capabilities.
 Organizational Structure of Enterprises based
on Multi-application Platform
Meet the needs of individual users, support the
business model simulation, analysis, diagnosis,
optimization and adjustment.
Figure 3: The development of platform system.
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 Platform based on Development Modular
Forms, reports, prints, check functional
standardization.
 Open Integration Platform
Data switching and transmission architecture based
on SOA technology.
3 CASE STUDY ON ECONOMIC
BUSINESS CONTROL
INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN
HGHWAY INDUSTRY
3.1 Background of Company
Highway Co. Ltd. F established in 1997, is an
emerging transport infrastructure state-owned
enterprises, the SASAC is the first province to fulfill
the responsibilities of investor in one of 17
companies with total assets over 130 billion.
Experience the ten-year development, highway
construction has scaled a new height, in the end of
2010, the province's highways mileage reached
2,300 km. 2015 will reach 6,100 kilometers , will be
formed the province's highway network and
covering all the counties .
Company F pays great attention to the
construction information, Benefited from the
unified system of vertical management model, the
province's information technology highway always
stays forefront of the country. In this planning, based
on the progressive completion of several large-scale
implemented of related projects and construction ,
the "digital highway" (1st phase ) project was
officially approved in June 2005 .
With the rapid growth of the scale and advances
in information technology, Companies F need a
financial management to promote the coordinated
development and improve the Group's efficiency. In
2007, as an important component of the "digital
highway" , it began construction of "centralized
financial management system".
3.2 Process of Economic Business
Management and Control System
Construction
Company F "centralized financial management
system", of which the scope is at all levels of road
and affiliated companies, including 56 under the
Molecular Corporation, more than 170 foot layer
companies.
Modules include five major systems：Financial
management system, accounting system, budget
management system, asset management system and
decision support analysis system. And as well the
Group's financial management information system
and the "digital highway" system platforms and
other specialized system interface.
Company F focused on building financial
management system project the official start from
February 5, 2007 and completed in December 2010,
reached the following objectives:
3.2.1 Achieved Centralized and Unified
Financial Management
Before Company F constructed centralized financial
management system, accounting system of every
subsidiaries are divided into several parts to
establish different financial management software.
Just like information silos, data are inconsistencies,
and as well there is no internal control system and a
relatively perfect financial management practices,
can not achieve effectiveness. Without information
system, data delayed, huge workloads, and less
efficiency, often also prone to delays and data
distortion.
Through the establishment of a unified financial
management system, company focused on road
platform, centralized management of data,
standardized accounting courses, fixed asset base to
achieve the standard management information,
satisfied the data management requirements of
timeliness and authenticity.
3.2.2 Achieved Centralized Funds
Management
Make the members of Company F headquarters and
enterprises flexible, efficient and safe by using
capital allocation system. It must ensure that the
funds flow, reduce costs; improve capital utilization,
building an effective system of flexible internal
settlement to Concentration of funds and debt.
Through advanced financial management system
and funds management institution, realize the
functions accurately that check the implementation
of accounting and management accounting timely,
reduce the external circulation of funds,
transparentizing capital flow of company.
3.2.3 Report Accurate and Efficient
Established and consolidated financial statements for
the formation of efficient system, by using IUFO
report, form different reports generated report object
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in time, such as main table accounting, management
reporting, the SAC report, at the same time meet the
combined requirements of the different scope of
consolidation and the consolidated financial
statements issued by the appropriate.
In the report construction of company F, basic
setting can set offset relations and offset projects and
maintain equity data.
3.2.4 Budget Management
As a useful tool to combine member development
strategy and business objectives of company F,
budget management play a major role in strengthen
the company's control and mobilize positive of
members. Nowadays, according to the requirements,
Company F has achieved a budget table budget at all
levels between the subjects reported the preparation,
approval, approved, issued a report, summary; and
other processes to achieve both the number of real-
time access and analyze the implementation.
3.2.5 Asset Management
Asset management to define and standardize
business processes and accounting methods, achieve
the combine financial management and material
management; ensure the full control of asset value
and material, improve asset efficiency, clear
responsibility for asset management, Prevent non-
normal damage and loss of assets.
The management model that Centralized
management control, but different people take the
responsibility can improve the efficiency and
accuracy of accounting.
 Asset Lifecycle Management can help the
company overall management of the fixed
assets, and track it.
 Monitor and manage to the key step of budget
of assets and implementation.
 Multidimensional statistical analysis on asset.
3.2.6 Decision Analysis Management
After applying on decision analysis management, the
company had achieved functional requirements: a
comprehensive analysis of the preliminary inquiry,
performance evaluation, decision support, including
real-time summary report of their overall real-time
analysis of performance indicators, key economic
indicators provide immediate, on the immediate
implementation of business strategy understanding
of the important indicators of the group through the
completion of inquiries.
3.2.7 General Benefits
This can achieve the dual focus on business and the
unified data management; reduce manual processing
of business processes brought about due to the
inaccuracy of data, improve the timeliness of
reporting and accuracy, provides a basis for accurate
analysis of the data for the decision-making.
3.3 Late Planning
For longer-term development and better use of
information technology management services for
enterprises, company F proposed information
technology, expected in the next 5 years, building an
economic activity information platforms and
information management system, mainlining income
and expenditure of funds, covering the construction
and operation management business, integrating
management of highway projects, toll, maintenance,
operation and development, monitoring, Highways
and other information, implementation of
information collection, integration.
4 CONCLUSIONS
Since 2007 Company F running highway
construction information management project, had
almost realized requirements of centralized
management and control of financial, and brought
benefit in economic and social work.
This case shows , the information system on
economic business control management as this
paper had put forward , is perfectly useful ,
technology applied is advanced , architecture is
reasonable , the company could meet the realistic
needs of highway industry on the management
informationize, and this can be applied of the
highway industry in more promotion.
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