HMIS is in the process of updating data based GIS Mapping of Nepal Road Statistics in two scales 1:25000 and 1:50000 in tens of details of the data. The projection system adopted is the modified universal Transverse mercator projection on Everest spheroid 1830 having zone width of 3 degrees as per department of survey. attribute data like AADT, IRI, SDI pavement type (BT,GR,ER) etc will also be incorporated into the GIS Database .
Department of Roads is planning to go for a major transformation towards a wide and broad, computer based Management Information System (MIS). MIS consists of application like Human Resource Management System, the road network related database management systems and development and maintenance of intranet and web-site.But we should not forget that regular maintenance for a long-term sustainability of a system is far more important than one time huge investment in the establishment of the system itself. 