Asset Mapping for Sidewalk Inventory
and ADA Compliance
27 April 2023
Safe and well-maintained sidewalks are a basic and necessary investment for cities, especially when seeking to meet ADA requirements. Join this event to learn about technologies that allow for comprehensive and accurate mapping of sidewalks and crosswalks.
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Overview
Sidewalks are key to a vibrant city life, serving as both social and economic conduits for pedestrian traffic. Safe and well-maintained sidewalks are a basic and necessary investment for cities, and thoughtful sidewalk design can encourage pedestrian traffic by making it more attractive. In today’s world of bike share, car share, freight loading, food trucks, bioswales, pedestrian safety bulb-outs, ride-hail, delivery trucks, and other competing uses, managed curbs incorporating ramps, sensors and other new technologies can help meet ADA requirements and enhance the user experience.
For many municipalities, a daunting first step is to accurately catalog existing sidewalks, so that transportation planning staff and other local stakeholders can identify gaps and ways to improve pedestrian mobility and safety. Emerging technologies can help cities dynamically shape and manage curbs by inventorying curbside uses and regulations, building smart partnerships with the private sector, and using new technologies to collect data. Owning and managing curbside asset data allows cities manage the future of the curb, as the private sector starts to catalog curbside data for their own traffic management.
Curb data collection areas:
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Sidewalk zones
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Sidewalk design
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Streetside trees and foliage
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Clear zones
A MUST-ATTEND EVENT FOR:
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City, State, and Regional Transportation Professionals
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City Engineers
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City/Urban/Transport Planners
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GIS/Geospatial Professionals & Analysts
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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 Directors/Asset Managers
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Parks & Recreation Directors
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University/Enterprise Asset Managers
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DOT Officials
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Traffic & Transit Engineers/Design Consultants
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Transit Planners and Administrators
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Drafters & Surveyors
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Geospatial Application Developers
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Project Engineers & Managers
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Public Works/Roadway Maintenance Supervisors
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and others ...
Key asset mapping elements:
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ADA Compliance
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Vision Zero
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Long Term Planning
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Pedestrian Assets
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Painted Markings
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Movement Data/Footfall Survey Data
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Cell Place Data
Join this session to learn about technologies that allow for comprehensive and accurate mapping of sidewalks and crosswalks, and how to access funding under recent Infrastructure bills for relevant technological upgrades.
Conference Format
Hosted on an exciting and interactive virtual event platform, this event features a virtual auditorium, plus intuitive one-on-one private meetings by video. Meet and network with speakers, attendees and sponsors in custom video lounges.
This event may qualify for GIS Certification Institute continuing education credits.
To submit for GISP Points, visit www.gisci.org to self-submit the event curriculum for approval
AGENDA
27 April 2023
All times in US Mountain time
10:00am - 10:05am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
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An introduction and overview of the day's proceedings.
10:05am - 10:35am
DOT/local government summary of mapping issues
Local DOT agency
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10:35am - 10:50m
Basic ADA Requirements for Public Entities and how GIS ties into Self-Evaluations and Transition Plans
Greg A. Martinez, Senior Transportation ADA Designer, HDR
Greg Martinez will discuss the background of the ADA and other civil rights laws, ADA Title II responsibilities for state and local agencies, and settlements under the ADA. He will focus on requirements for ADA Self-Evaluations and Transition Plans, including transition plan elements and how GIS helps your Self-Evaluation and Transition Plan process for curb ramps, sidewalks, signalized and non-signalized intersections and pedestrian pushbuttons.
10:50am - 11:05am
State and Local Government Asset Identification Obligations via an ADA Transition Plan
Chris Bell, Board Member, American Council of the Blind
This session will address the ongoing obligation of state and local governments to regularly conduct a self-evaluation of physical and other barriers in the public rights-of-way and facilities and to plan for the removal of physical barriers through an ADA transition plan. The session will highlight the ACB’s litigation in NYC and Chicago for the failure to install APS, a barrier which should have been recognized and resolved over the last 30 years by self-evaluation and ADA transition planning, as well as the risk of other existing litigation for a government’s failure to remove barriers which have cropped up since the last evaluation.
11:05am - 11:45am
Industry Solution Provider Panel/Audience Q&A
Moderator:
Gavin Schrock, Consulting Editor, GoGeomatics
Panelists:
Brandon Yates, CEO/Co-Founder, DeepWalk Research
Bill Singleton, Vice President, Ecopia AI
Greg A. Martinez, Senior Transportation ADA Designer, HDR
Brief presentations followed by a roundtable discussion among industry solution providers and presenters, focusing on Asset Mapping for Sidewalk Inventory and ADA Compliance.
SPEAKERS
Brandon Yates
CEO/Co-Founder, DeepWalk Research
Brandon Yates is CEO and Co-Founder of DeepWalk, a scanning software company automating ADA Transition Planning for backlogged municipalities. Prior to founding DeepWalk, Brandon worked in civil engineering with Donohue & Associates, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and C2 Engineers.
Bill Singleton
Vice President, Ecopia AI
Bill Singleton is the Vice President at Ecopia AI and has been with the company for 7 years. His main responsibility is engaging with geospatial analytics partners to find new ways of combining vector base maps with alternate data sets to help public & private entities better understand and improve the communities in which they operate. Previously, he spent 5 years working in enterprise sales at Cisco Systems Canada, providing data center and voice solutions. Following this, he graduated with an MBA from the Ivey School of Business with a focus on entrepreneurship and managing high-growth companies.
Greg A. Martinez
Senior Transportation ADA Designer, HDR
Greg Martinez is Senior Transportation ADA Designer with HDR. He provides consulting services to local and national public entities, architects, town planners, ADA Coordinators, and construction and design engineers throughout the nation under Title II of the ADA. His consultation in ADA includes self-evaluations, transition plans, asset management, training, and ADA Title II requirements for pedestrian facilities in the public right-of-way. In addition, Greg’s experience with asset management and data collection spans across the western region and numerous municipalities. Greg has presented with FHWA to numerous public entities in Colorado during his tenure as CDOT’s statewide ADA Title II Analyst. He retired from CDOT with 25 years of state service and is now part of a National ADA Practice Group and a National Complete Streets Group within HDR.
Chris Bell
Board Member, American Council of the Blind
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SPONSORS and SUPPORTERS
DeepWalk develops scanning software to simplify sidewalk ADA Transition Plans for backlogged public works departments. The DeepWalk Process is simply to scan the sidewalk system, plan using DeepWalk's standard templates and deliverables, and Implement with our automated construction documents. We are a team of civil and computer engineering graduates from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We started DeepWalk based on over 100 interviews with municipalities and consultants from across the country. Our focus is solving the logistical, planning, and engineering challenges that prevent accessible design. To do this, we work closely with municipalities and ADA experts to tailor our software directly to their needs.
The World Geospatial Industry Council is an association of companies representing the entire ecosystem of geospatial industry. WGIC endeavors to enhance the role of the geospatial industry and strengthen its contribution in global economy and society. We facilitate exchange of knowledge within the geospatial industry and co-creation of larger business opportunities for the geospatial industry. We represent business interest, share perspectives of the geospatial industry and undertake policy advocacy and dialogue with public authorities, multilateral agencies and other relevant bodies.
Ecopia's mission is to digitize the world using AI. We provide foundational information for critical decision-making, improve the welfare of societies, efficiency of economies, and health of environments. Ecopia specializes in extracting insight from geospatial big data. Our intelligent systems leverage groundbreaking advancements in artificial intelligence to convert high-resolution imagery of our earth into HD Vector Maps, which are embedded into critical applications around the world.