NJDOT County Road

Sid
Sidewalk
lk Inventory
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Kirk Weaver, PMP, GISP

Michael Baker Jr., Inc.
 Presentation Focus
 NJDOT County Route
Sidewalk Inventory Project
• Inventory along 6,500
miles of County Routes in
New Jersey
• Use of digital imaging and
feature extraction to
identify bicycle and
pedestrian facilities along
the routes
• Project goal was to fill in
“data holes” existing after
completion of state-
state-
jurisdiction inventory

NJDOT County Road Sidewalk Inventory

 New Jerseyy Road Network
 2,500 miles of state
j
jurisdiction
highways
 6,500 miles of
county--jurisdiction
county
routes
 30,000
, miles of
local city streets
and township roads
 10,000+-
10 000+- miles
10,000+ il off
private roads

NJDOT County Road Sidewalk Inventory

 Facilities Inventoryy
 Need to know “What’s out
there?” for p
planning
g and
needs analysis
 Condition assessment is also
needed

NJDOT County Road Sidewalk Inventory

 Facilities Inventoryy
 Also important to know
“What’s NOT out
there?”
• Roads Without
Shoulders
• Missing Pedestrian
Ramps
• Signalized intersections
without Pedestrian
Signals and Push
Push--
Buttons
 Evidence of Need
• Goat Trails

NJDOT County Road Sidewalk Inventory

 Facilityy Inventoryy Approach
pp
 Feature/Attribute Definition
 Mission Planning
 Vehicle--Based Digital Image Collection
Vehicle
 Feature Extraction of Assets/Needs
 Data Consolidation/GIS Layer Development
 Quality Control

NJDOT County Road Sidewalk Inventory

 Feature/Attribute Definition
 Had to determine what
features and attributes
were necessary to collect
to meet Bicycle and
Pedestrian Planning Needs
 Determine collection
methodology
• Compatibility with previous
inventory of State Highways
• Safetyy
• Cost effectiveness
• Ability to collect more data
later
NJDOT County Road Sidewalk Inventory
 Digital
g Image
g Collection
 Specially-equipped vans
Specially-
traveled both directions of all
County Routes in NJ
 Over 13,000 miles of images
collected
 4 cameras arranged in stereo
pairs
 Image spacing approximately
40 to 50 feet
 GPS and Inertial Navigation
System used to determine
position

NJDOT County Road Sidewalk Inventory

 Image
g Collection/Feature Extraction
 What is it?
• Utilizing
g stereoscopic
p digital
g images
g and advanced
software to calculate feature geographic positions and
determine attribute values

NJDOT County Road Sidewalk Inventory

 Image
g Collection/Feature Extraction
 How is it done?
• Two digital
g image
g p
pairs are captured
p at regular
g intervals
from GPS/INS equipped vans traveling at highway
speeds
• Triangulation
g techniques
q are used to calculate p
positions
from image pixels

NJDOT County Road Sidewalk Inventory

 Feature Extraction
 Office staff extract data
from the digital images
using
i configurable
fi bl
software
 Spatial Position
Determined
D t i d
 Linear Reference (Route
and Milepost) Calculated
 Feature Condition
(Good/Fair Poor)
Recorded
 Feature Attributes
Collected

NJDOT County Road Sidewalk Inventory

 Feature Extraction – Measurement
 Digital video
collection allows for
measurementt off
objects
• Sign Height
• Sign Width
• Height Above
ground
• Offset from
pavement
• Path Widths

NJDOT County Road Sidewalk Inventory

 Extracted Features
 Paths
• Sidewalks
• Bike Paths
• Goat Trails
 Shoulders
• Bike Lanes
 Bike/Ped
/ Signs
g
 Crosswalks
 Pedestrian Curb Ramps
 Signalized Intersections
• Pedestrian Signal Heads
• Push
Push--Button Actuators
NJDOT County Road Sidewalk Inventory
 Data Consolidation
 Data was collected by direction
• GIS p
proximity
y tools were used to
normalize the spatial locations to
remove redundant feature locations
 Linear referencing added during
post--processing of extracted data
post
• Standard Route Identification (SRI)
numbers
• Linear and Point milepost values
 Spatial and linear reference
information saved with asset
information

NJDOT County Road Sidewalk Inventory

 GIS Layer
y Development
p
 Feature classes
were created for
each asset
collected
• Paths
• Shoulders
• Signs
• Intersections
• Crosswalks

NJDOT County Road Sidewalk Inventory

 Qualityy Control
 Visual check of
correctness of
extracted data
 Asset Checker
application shows
quality control staff
exact attributes and
codes selected for
assets
 Allows supervisor to
log errors for later
correction

NJDOT County Road Sidewalk Inventory

 Project
j Results
 Nearly 8 million images were
collected at 1.98 million image
g
points along 6,500+ centerline
miles of county roads
 Inventory uncovered:
• 205 miles of asphalt paths
• 407 miles of bike lanes
• 3,480 miles of concrete sidewalk
• 71 miles of brick sidewalk
• 40 miles of goat paths (worn earth)
• 15,500 pedestrian/bicycle signs
• 4,630 intersections with pedestrian
buttons and signal heads
NJDOT County Road Sidewalk Inventory
 Data Availability
y
 Project Data
Available on
NJDOT Web
W b Site
Sit
• Geodatabases
• Shape
p Files
• PDF Maps
www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/countysidewalks
 Images Available
from NJDOT
• Delivery via
external hard
drive to public
agencies

NJDOT County Road Sidewalk Inventory

 Data Availability
y
 Images also
available
within NJDOT
Intranet using
the Road
Inventory
Video Log
Viewer
Vi

NJDOT County Road Sidewalk Inventory

 For More Information
 Debbie Kingsland
• NJDOT Office of Bicycle
y and
Pedestrian Programs
• (609) 530
530--3525
• debbie.kingsland@dot.state.nj.us
debbie kingsland@dot state nj us

 Kirk Weaver, PMP, GISP

• Michael Baker Jr., Inc.
• (609) 807
807--9575
• kweaver@mbakercorp.com
@ p

www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/countysidewalks

NJDOT County Road Sidewalk Inventory