
Following up on last year’s successful event, the 2021 Right-of-Way Asset Mapping Exchange is a free, interactive online Virtual Conference Experience (VCX) focusing on innovation in asset inventory and mapping that supports all phases of infrastructure lifecycles. The event provides hands-on actionable information on a variety of current and emerging technologies. Via presentations, discussions, and one-on-one meetings, the event gives you an opportunity to learn from and engage with technology and industry leading professionals in a wide range of disciplines, and some of their key clients, as well as many of your peers and colleagues.
Why ROW Asset Mapping?
Right-of-way (ROW) corridors, especially in urban areas, are densely populated by many public and private infrastructure features—including overhead electric and telephone wires, street-level parking meters, signage, traffic sensors, underground fiberoptic cables, water mains, natural gas pipes, and sewers. They are constantly changing environments, as additional poles, signs, and conduits are installed and old ones are replaced with newer ones to restore service after storm damage. Yet public works and utility managers, engineers, and planners, need to know what each stretch of each ROW corridor contains at any given moment, especially as they work to make our cities “smarter.” Hence, the Sisyphean task of mapping these assets.
Fortunately, the technology to map ROW assets is continuing to improve rapidly. Platforms for data collection include vehicles driving at normal traffic speeds, UAVs, and manned aircraft. Sensors include digital cameras, lidar scanners, and ground-penetrating radar. Visualization tools include augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality, and models ranging from small 2D and 3D ones of individual features all the way up to digital twins of buildings and, eventually, entire cities. Increasingly, the tedious work of identifying and classifying features is being delegated to automated feature extraction software, a form of artificial intelligence.
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Comparing 2D and 3D visualization tools
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Explaining the benefits of 3D models as an advanced spatial analysis tool for urban planning
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Exploring the future of smart cities and digital twins
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A light equity study and pole inventory in the context of the transition to LED lighting
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How a two-man team can capture 500 miles worth of utility data in two weeks
A MUST-ATTEND EVENT FOR:
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City Federal, State, Regional, and Local Transportation Professionals
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City/Urban Planners
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Geospatial Information Officers
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Mapping Technology Decision Makers
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Smart City Innovation Leaders
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State and Local Government CIOs, CTOs, and IT directors
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Public Works Asset Managers
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Parks & Recreation
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Transportation Departments
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Government & Municipal DOT Officials
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Traffic & Transit Engineers
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Transit Planners and Administrators
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Drafters & Surveyors
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GIS Professionals & Geospatial Analysts
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Transportation & Regional Planners
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Engineering & Design Consultants
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Geospatial Application Developers
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Project Engineers & Managers
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Airport Operations
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Public Works Managers & Roadway Maintenance Supervisors
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Enterprise Asset Managers & DBAs