Georgia Tech Prof Awarded $400K Grant For Sidewalk Project
Database of Atlanta streets being created.
The Southeastern Transportation Research, Innovation, Development and Education Center and the and the U.S. Department of Transportation have awarded a two-year, $400,000 grant to a Georgia Tech professor who will use the funds to build an inventory of the physical state of Atlanta's 2,500 miles of sidewalks. Randall Guensler, a professor in Tech's School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and his team developed an Android platform-based tool on a tablet that will be attached to wheelchairs. Volunteers will push the wheelchairs on the sidewalks and the tablet will record videos of the sidewalks. The tablet program also will record the vibrations of the wheelchair as it's being pushed to create an index on the quality of the sidewalk …
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JD
11:11 am on Monday, February 25, 2013
Really! The business owner pays for the maintenance of a sidewalk the city should be maintaining using tax money!? OK if MY building provides shade for the city's sidewalk do I get to charge a shade fee for providing the shade! Hey, just using the same twisted logic! I guess the city of Atlanta still has budget allocation problems! WOW! more ›