We’re looking forward to the MACURISA 2024 conference happening in Atlantic City, NJ, on October 16-18th! Visit our booth to meet our experts, enjoy friendly competition, and win fun prizes.

We’ll also be delivering presentations throughout the week, be sure to add these to your conference schedule! To do this, click here and then hover over each presentation and click “Add to Schedule.”

Streamlining the City of Philadelphia Streets Department’s Hauling Permit Review and Route Validation Process

Presented by: Bob Pliszka, PMP, GISP

Thursday, October 17, 10:15am - 11:45am EDT | Atlantic 3

The City of Philadelphia, Streets Department is responsible for reviewing and approving hauling permits for freight that is transported within the City’s limits over the roadways. To date, this process has been supported by the City’s existing Hauling Permit application, which provided a text entry interface for applicants to manually enter their proposed routes. The Streets Department staff then reviewed the provided route to determine if it violated any low clearances or weight restrictions by using a combination of institutional knowledge and internal data sources. Since the City reviews thousands of permits an annual basis, they sought a solution that would help reduce the frequency of communications with applicants when clarification regarding provided routes was required.

To help improve this process, JMT and the Streets Department worked together to enhance their existing comprehensive bridge geodatabase containing all navigable bridges within the City. JMT then created an intuitive and interactive GIS-based route validation application. The application provides hauling permit applicants with the ability to construct the route to be traversed while providing validation and warning messages when inappropriate streets are selected. This validation helps increase the speed and accuracy of the permitting review process by standardizing the method of creating each route. This validation helps mitigate the possibility of freight being hauled on a route that has prohibitive restrictions. The route validation application provides administrative functionality so that Streets Department staff can review, modify, and approve routes. The application will fully integrate with the existing Hauling Permit and access the bridge geodatabase and the existing street centerline GIS data maintained by the City.

This presentation will provide an overview of how the route validation application is helping the City improve the hauling permit review process. In addition, the presentation will include an overview of the bridge geodatabase and the Esri-based map interface that serves as the main component of the application.

 

Become a Real-Life Superhero with Virtual and Augmented Reality Tools

Presented by: Nick DiPaolo, GISP

Thursday, October 17, 1:30pm - 3:00pm EDT | Atlantic 3

The use of virtual and augmented reality tools (AR, MR - mixed reality or XR - extended reality) in GIS and engineering is ever-expanding and evolving to make it easier to implement in AEC, building construction, 3D scanning and reality capture, and GIS data collection. Designs, as-builts, and models can be brought to the project site and visualized in the field in a 1:1 scale providing interactive analysis not capable from viewing these same datasets conventionally.

JMT Technology Group has begun to explore these tools including iTwins.js, vGIS, Trimble Site Vision, Holobuilder, and GeoBIM, and how they can better serve AEC projects. For instance, vGIS is a leading AR/MR solution and 2023 ESRI Partner Conference Award recipient for innovation. It aggregates and transforms spatial data (BIM, GIS, and LIDAR) onto a view frame of your mobile device. Through integration with high resolution GPS, this data is accurately juxtaposed onto your screen simply by pointing your device at the project area.

Allow JMT Technology Group to take you on an AR/VR tour as we explore the benefits and possibilities that these AR tools can offer to the GIS and AEC industry. We will discuss various use cases like utility conflict detection, as-built development/confirmation, clash detection, design review, and project documentation providing key learnings and best practice tips along the way.

 

Breaking Limitations: Capturing ADA Compliance with Survey123

Presented by: Sean Lain

Thursday, October 17, 1:30pm - 3:00pm EDT | Atlantic D

State and local governments provide recreational opportunities for the citizens of their communities and enhance their social equity by providing facilities and programs accessible to community members regardless of income, race, age, and ability. To ensure facilities are fully accessible to everyone, communities are assessing their facilities for compliance with the Architectural Barriers Act (ABA) and Public Right-of-Way Accessibility Guidelines (PROWAG) standards set forth by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Title II: Regulations for State and Local Government standards. Title II requires state and local governments to provide people with disabilities an equal opportunity to benefit from all their programs, services, activities, facilities, and amenities. Local and state governments must also make all owned facilities and amenities that are operated or leased to other agencies or organizations accessible to people with disabilities and remove all accessibility barriers from public right-of-way.

JMT developed data collection tools to comply with all chapters of the 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design outlined by the Architectural Barriers Act (ABA) and Public Right-of-Way Accessibility Guidelines (PROWAG) standards. Esri Survey 123 surveys were developed to perform field assessments for over forty interior and exterior amenities. The developed surveys were constructed using Survey123 Connect to allow for additional form automation.

JMT developed data report templates that compiled non-compliant infractions for each feature based on the formatting used in the surveys. Reports are exported using the assessed amenity from the non-compliance data collection. All reports provide the chapters of the 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design and PROWAG standards for direct reference of the standards when resolving non-compliance. Potential solutions or means by which each non-compliance infraction could be brought into compliance are provided. In some scenarios, multiple solutions may be possible to resolve non-compliance for each infraction.

Capturing ADA compliance using developed Survey123 surveys and report templates has increased the efficiency of the collection and reporting process. Collected amenity metrics can be tracked within an application to monitor facility compliance.