building safe neighborhoods with open source tools

1. Building Safe Neighborhoods
With Open Source Tools
Matthew Baker
Denver Public Schools
Denver Safe Routes
to School Coalition

2. Stakeholder Organizations
● CO Dep’t of Transportation
● City of Denver Dep’t of Public Works
● City of Denver Dep’t of Environmental Health
● Denver Public Schools

3. The Problem
● Safe Routes to School:

4. How to direct new infrastructure?
● Safe crossings, sidewalk repairs, etc.

5. How to direct new infrastructure?
● Safe crossings, sidewalk repairs, etc.

6. City of Denver - DEH
● CCD – Department of Environmental Health
– Gretchen Armijo
● Westwood Neighborhood Study
– Counts / Maps of Students
● Living within 1mi of “attend school”

11. Sidewalk Data / Conditions
● Walkscope Project
– Sidewalk condition citizen app

15. Next “on-the-ground” Steps
● Improve areas around 40th & Colorado
● I-70 ‘Big Dig’ (Elyria Swansea N’Hood)
● Improve Sidewalks across Denver
– Mayor’s Plan
Next “tech” Steps
● Generate ‘Safe Routes’
– PGRouting – student to school geometry

16. Thank You!