GIS helps make streets safer, and students can now experience the workflows used in the new activity Experience GIS for transportation. This activity includes:
- Reading how Tampa uses GIS in its Vision Zero program, aiming to eliminate all traffic fatalities and severe injuries
- Answering some questions about what they've read
- Exploring the dashboard used by Tampa and exploring their Vision Zero data
- Using traffic data on a map to identify problem areas near schools
- (Optional) Following a tutorial to map the traffic crashes they just explored and calculating the problem areas
Here's a sneak peek of the traffic data they'll use to identify problem areas around schools:
No accounts? No problem - They aren't needed
Students can get hands-on using GIS for transportation without having an account. The first parts of the activity can be completed without one, including some hands-on GIS exploration. If the students have accounts, there is more in the activity that they can continue to do with a tutorial.
Where does the activity fit in the classroom?
Consider incorporating this activity into the following career clusters and pathways in CTE programs:
- Transportation
- Transportation systems
- Infrastructure planning, management, and regulation
- Transportation, distribution, and logistics
- Engineering and architecture
- Construction
Teaching a higher ed unit on transportation management, transportation planning and infrastructure design, or transportation planning? Your students will also benefit.
None of those apply to you? You can still use the activity - we are happy to see more students exposed to GIS.
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