Elements:

Roadways

Access 30+ automated roadway insights for inventory and condition review to help make roads safer

Leveraging its high-resolution aerial imagery, Vexcel is providing AI-derived insights on roadway infrastructure and pavement markings across 3,389 cities in the U.S. Access more than 30 automated road insights to inventory roadway features, support safety and compliance regulations, and improve maintenance planning with Elements: Roadways.

30+ attributes

3,389 Cities

Combining highly accurate imagery with the power of AI

Roadways is the newest addition to Elements, a product suite of attributes extracted from Vexcel’s highly accurate aerial imagery using AI and machine learning. By combining AI plus imagery, transportation planners and engineers get the best of both worlds—automated insights and enhanced visualization to support better data collection and information.

Did You Know?

Roadways named features are up to date with the latest published version (11th edition) of the U.S. Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD)

Identify, map, and assess roadways features

Roadways focuses on two types of non-highway road data: infrastructure and pavement markings. With infrastructure, quickly map and inventory curb mats, pedestrian islands, and roundabouts. With pavement markings, identify and get condition ratings for symbols, arrows, text, stop bars, crosswalks, and bicycle lanes.

Element Type: Infrastructure

Detectable curb mat
Pedestrian island
Roundabout

Element Type: Pavement Marking

Accessibility (wheelchair) symbol
Three-way arrow
Right/left arrow
Left turn arrow
Lane reduction arrow
Right turn arrow
Straight arrow
Straight/left arrow
Straight/right arrow
U-turn arrow
Green-colored pavement (bicycle)
Bicycle
Shared lane (bicycle)
Ladder crosswalk
Solid crosswalk
Transverse crosswalk
Longitudinal bar crosswalk
Railroad crossing
Stop line
Yield line
Double chevron
Other symbols
BUS text
ONLY text
SCHOOL text
STOP text
YIELD text
Other text

Inventory reporting

Roadways data supports efforts to map and identify infrastructure and pavement markings within urban areas. Use it to automate and standardize your roadway inventory with consistent, accurate data. With the clarity of Vexcel’s imagery, agencies are able to see and identify symbols and text with greater ease, even in the case of colored pavement such as bicycle lanes. And because Vexcel refreshes imagery up to three times a year in the cities where Roadways data is processed, inventory collection data will always be current.

Safety analysis

Improving roadway safety is an ongoing concern and need for communities across the U.S. This is evidenced by the Safe Streets for All (SS4A) federal grant program which directly impacts vulnerable road users (VRU) such as pedestrians and bicyclists. Roadways data helps map and identify the condition of key pavement markings designed to assist in the safety of VRUs and can also help audit infrastructure of curb mats in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

“Crosswalk and stop line markings, bike symbols and text, and well-maintained colored pavements are important elements of vulnerable road user (VRU) safety…,” said Robert Dingess, President of the Traffic Marking Manufacturers Alliance (TMMA). “Automated insights like these will be super valuable to TMMA members and their customers to help understand individual product performance and prioritize pavement marking maintenance to improve roadway safety.”

Maintenance planning

Preserving, maintaining, and extending the life of roadway assets is a big challenge for transportation agencies. With Roadways data, agencies can proactively schedule maintenance planning by better understanding the condition of pavement markings and re-paint when needed, not just when repaving or resurfacing a road arises. And with access to frequently refreshed imagery, this helps agencies update road data more frequently at a lower cost.

Use Case Examples for Roadways

Pedestrian and Bicycle Accessibility Studies and Roadway Inventories

Identify and map locations of crosswalks at intersections and midblock
Determine locations of low visibility and high-visibility crosswalks
Automatically determine pedestrian crossing distances for marked crosswalks
Identify marked pedestrian crossings with and without ADA detectable curb mats (truncated dome) and/or pedestrian refuge islands
Identify and map locations of bicycle markings including symbols, words and green-colored pavement, beneficial for identifying those not captured in existing GIS data inventories
Identifying roads and intersections with large pedestrian crossing distances

Roadway Inventories for Intersections and Approaches

Develop and maintain an inventory of non-longitudinal pavement markings
Use to help update and attribute road inventory GIS data such as MIRE elements below:
- Presence/Absence of Bicycle Facilities, School Zone Indicator, Type of Intersection/Junction, Intersection/Junction Number of Legs, Intersection/Junction Geometry, Intersection/Junction Traffic Control, Circular Intersection (Bicycle Facility), Number of Approach Through Lanes, Number of Exclusive Left/Right Turn Lanes, Approach Traffic Control, Crosswalk Presence/Type, Circular Intersection (Presence/Type of Exclusive Right-Turn Lane), Circular Intersection (Pedestrian Facility)

Condition Assessment of Road Markings

Identify and map poor condition pavement markings
identify and prioritize intersections and corridors for pavement marking maintenance.
Develop predictive models for pavement marking service life using Road Elements analysis for newly collected and historical imagery.

ADA Compliance Assessment

Identify and map curb ramps with detectable warning mats (truncated domes) per U.S. Department of Justice 2010 ADA standards for Accessible Design.
Identify and map locations of accessibility parking spaces using Accessibility Symbol pavement marking detections

Confirm and Document Installation of Countermeasures

Identify and map locations of installed FWHA proven Pedestrian/Bicyclist countermeasures such as high-visibility crosswalks, advance stop and yield lines, pedestrian refuge islands and more

Prioritize and improve project planning with Roadways data

Create better efficiencies in your roadway asset management and triage projects with richer information to identify hot spots, areas of concern, and get a more holistic picture of what exists on non-highway roads with Elements: Roadways data.

Roadways datasets are delivered with corresponding aerial imagery and optimized for use in common GIS and planning software.

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