IN-PERSON Lisbon Livable Cities. Section A

Abstract

The ITS4US Safe Trips in a Connected Transportation Network (ST-CTN) project in Gwinnett County, Georgia, is designed to enhance the travel experience for underserved communities, including people with disabilities, older adults, and travelers with limited English proficiency (LEP). The open-source regional trip planner, known as the Georgia Mobility and Accessibility Planner (G-MAP) is leveraging old and new systems for pedestrian infrastructure assessment, an advanced multi-modal trip routing engine, real-time transit operations, and even connected vehicle (CV) deployments to optimize navigation by various mobility modes (e.g., manual wheelchairs) through the pedestrian and transit system. Discussions will focus on opportunities for implementing these methods in other municipalities for developing a comprehensive pedestrian network that can be used for routing decisions across the different mobility modes. The overall goal of the project was to develop a comprehensive pedestrian infrastructure network in the study area, while assessing multiple data collection methods for municipalities and research labs to conduct efficient future data collection in their own communities. Using open-source software and multiple methods of collection technologies, our documentation will provide research labs and municipalities across different levels of resource availability, with a range of options for collecting pedestrian infrastructure data (manual field inspections, semi-automated video inspections, and fully automated machine vision processing). Our reports will be available for the public to conduct their own sidewalk study in their own communities for more walkable cities.