The New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA) awarded a partnership of GCR and Manning Architects to conduct a Bus and Streetcar Stop Accessibility Survey and Transit Facility Guidelines Handbook project. GCR will support the RTA by identifying barriers to accessibility in the agency’s network of transit stops through use of advanced survey technology. Drawing on its ample experience developing ADA Transition Plans, the firm will create a tablet application that enables surveyors to automatically geolocate survey data and link photographs to cloud-based databases from the field.

These projects build on GCR’s substantial history of providing transit and accessibility planning services to regional clients, including Jefferson Transit, the River Parishes Transit Authority, the Regional Planning Commission and St. Bernard Parish.

As a strategic associate of GCR’s, Crowe Horwath LLP, one of the largest public accounting and consulting firms in the U.S., will be an active part of the project team. GCR and Crowe Horwath will provide all implementation services to install, configure, train users and assure successful deployment of the ERP system. The system will provide a fully integrated ERP based on a Microsoft platform. The ERP will form the foundation for business management at the airport and will drive lasting benefits for the Piedmont Triad Airport Authority.

The GCR team will have the ERP operational by December 31, 2013.

About GCR
GCR Inc., an international professional services firm, partners with government and commercial clients to deliver consulting services and technology solutions in aviation, disaster recovery, elections, nuclear power, public safety, right-of-way and urban planning…For more information, visit http://www.GCRincorporated.com/.

About Crowe Horwath
Crowe Horwath LLP (www.crowehorwath.com) is one of the largest public accounting and consulting firms in the United States. Under its core purpose of “Building Value with Values®,” Crowe uses its deep industry expertise to provide audit services to public and private entities, while also helping clients reach their goals with tax, advisory, risk and performance services.

ABM is replacing software used by the DOA for nearly 15 years for agreement and revenue management. Besides updated software with current technology, benefits for DOA include a business management system that is continually enhanced and upgraded to meet the needs of the airport industry and stability in support for users over the long term.

While GCR has delivered AirportIQ products throughout the world, this is GCR’s first aviation project in the state of Florida. “We’re very pleased DOA has selected GCR for this most important assignment,” said Phillip Brodt, GCR’s VP and GM of Transportation Services.

About GCR
GCR Inc., an international professional services firm, partners with government and commercial clients to deliver consulting services and technology solutions in aviation, disaster recovery, elections, nuclear power, public safety, right-of-way and urban planning…For more information, visit http://www.GCRincorporated.com.

AirportIQ Secure Credentials is a fully integrated airport credentialing solution that combines GCR’s business automation modules with core biometric identity management and credentialing components from IWS. The solution provides a trusted, interoperable, biometrically-enabled aviation worker security credential, with features that validate the identity and background of the aviation worker, issue and manage security access privileges, and manage the office automation and regulatory compliance functions of the badge office.

AirportIQ Secure Credentials provides data, information and reporting to internal and external stakeholders, and interfaces with numerous biometric capture devices, and with external systems, agencies, and service providers, such as the TSC, TSA, FBI, and others.

The AAAE Airport Credentialing and Access Control Conference, presented by The American Association of Airport Executives, in cooperation with San Diego International Airport, was held on April 24-25, 2013, in San Diego, California, and focused exclusively on credentialing and access control issues in the airport environment, showcasing the latest in credentialing, access control, biometric, smart card and identity management technologies.

The New Orleans Regional Planning Commission (NORPC) hired GCR Inc.  to develop a bicycle master plan for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana – the most populous in the New Orleans region. The plan will serve as a roadmap for the largely suburban parish to become a more bicycle friendly community by making streets friendlier for cyclists and applying smart growth policy changes. Communities around the country are increasingly investing in planning for active communities that promote health, increase road safety and enhance economic competitiveness.

GCR’s approach to active transportation planning is built on three pillars:

• Development of an inclusive vision by engaging community stakeholders in the planning process through a variety of traditional and innovative outreach strategies
• Comprehensive, data-driven evaluation of a community’s existing bicycle transportation network, regulatory environment and education, encouragement and enforcement programs
• Highly specific, actionable and achievable recommendations for policy and infrastructure improvements that embody international best practices in transportation planning and design

GCR’s comprehensive community engagement approach combines traditional public workshops with social media tools, including Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and online surveys. These methods are yielding valuable citizen feedback to complement empirical transportation and land use data for analysis.  The results from this analysis are informing clear recommendations for policy goals, objectives and immediate actions to achieve the Jefferson Parish’s vision of a bicycle friendly community.

GCR Inc. has partnered with Alta Planning + Design, Dana Brown & Associates, Villavaso & Associates and Jemison & Partners, Inc. to develop the master plan, and anticipates completing the plan in July 2013.

Visit www.JeffParishBikePlan.org for plan details, updates, documents, events and more.

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On March 6 through 8, 2013, Tim Walsh, GCR Inc.’s Director, Aviation Services, will take GCR’s Airport and Aviation Solutions to the Asia Pacific market. Walsh will travel to Singapore to represent GCR at the Airports Council International’s (ACI) Economics and Finance Conference, which will focus on airport investment, financial management and economic sustainability. GCR is a sponsor of this international event, which will host over 250 leaders of the airport finance and management industry worldwide. Areas of discussion will include the airport-related implications of the current global economic uncertainty, tight credit markets, the effect of high energy prices on airport funding, new financial vehicles and changing regulatory frameworks. GCR’s participation in the conference will provide many high-level opportunities for networking with potential clients, as well as a higher echelon of global visibility for GCR’s AirportIQ suite of products for Civil Aviation airports.

Created in 1991, the Airports Council International (ACI) is the international association of the world’s airports. It is a not-for-profit organization, whose prime purpose is to foster co-operation among its member airports and other partners in world aviation, including governmental and airline and aircraft manufacturing organizations.

GCR Inc., an international professional services firm with offices in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., New Orleans and Baton Rouge, partners with government and commercial clients to deliver consulting services and technology solutions in aviation, public safety, voter registration and election systems, nuclear power, disaster recovery and urban planning. GCR’s AirportIQ Suite of airport intelligence software manages nearly all aspects of airport operations and is in use at airports worldwide.

GCR Inc. Awarded Contract to Implement Comprehensive Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System for Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority

GCR Inc. is pleased to announce that the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority (MNAA) has selected GCR to implement a comprehensive Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to help manage the Nashville International Airport. The system is built around GCR’s AirportIQ Suite of Airport Intelligence Software, which manages airport business and operational activities, and Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 as the core financial management system. Crowe Horwath LLP, one of the largest public accounting and consulting firms in the U.S., and strategic associate of GCR’s, will lead the implementation of the Dynamics AX financial components.

“We’re very pleased MNAA has selected GCR for this most important assignment,” said Phillip Brodt, GCR’s VP and GM of Aviation Services. “The Authority is committed to performance excellence, so having a system in place which can support its well-designed processes is particularly critical.”

GCR’s AirportIQ system will be used to manage tenant and customer agreements, airline and concession activities, billing and invoicing, accounts receivables, airport compliance and operational activities, and manage their capital improvement program. The Microsoft Dynamics AX system will provide the general ledger, accounts payable, budgeting, maintenance management, inventory, purchasing, and asset management.

About GCR
GCR Inc., an international professional services firm, partners with government and commercial clients to deliver consulting services and technology solutions in aviation, disaster recovery, elections, nuclear power, public safety, right-of-way and urban planning. For more information, visit http://www.GCRincorporated.com/

About Crowe Horwath
Crowe Horwath LLP (www.crowehorwath.com) is one of the largest public accounting and consulting firms in the United States. Under its core purpose of “Building Value with Values®,” Crowe uses its deep industry expertise to provide audit services to public and private entities, while also helping clients reach their goals with tax, advisory, risk and performance services. With offices coast to coast and 2,600 personnel, Crowe is recognized by many organizations as one of the country’s best places to work.

ERIN is a custom-built application for the Louisiana Secretary of State providing a repository of information on all Louisiana voters and voting related information.  In 2005, GCR began conversion of Louisiana’s 20-year-old IBM mainframe system that maintained voter registration information to a Microsoft .NET and SQL Server platform. The initial assignment was completed in 2006 and was followed by a 3 year extension to further develop the voter registration system and to build a redistricting and GIS interface.

ERIN has zero tolerance for error and 24/7/365 is required for availability and reliability.  It is used by 64 parish Registrars of Voters to maintain critical information on voters and provides functions for all election-related accounting activities including paying vendors and personnel who work for an election event. External interfaces within the system ensure up-to-date information; namely, the Louisiana Department of Corrections, Vital Records for Death verification, and the Office of Motor Vehicles/ Department of Public Safety (DPS).  For example, the system communicates with LADPS to query the driver’s license database and verify the identity of a person filling out an online form.   This project included GIS-based districting, Internet voter registration, and other enhancements.