![]() ![]() "We thought we needed a method that can be scalable and used in different cities," says Maryam Hosseini, a postdoc in MIT's City Form Lab in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), whose research has focused extensively on the development of the tool. areas as initial sources of data, but it can be refined and adapted for use anywhere. The tool, called TILE2NET, has been developed using a few U.S. It seemed like a really important technology to develop, especially in an open-source way that can be used by other places." The private sector hasn't taken on the task of mapping it. city governments know very little about their sidewalk networks. ![]() "In the urban planning and urban policy fields, this is a huge gap," says Andres Sevtsuk, an associate professor at MIT and a co-author of a new paper detailing the tool's capabilities. ![]() The tool can help planners, policymakers, and urbanists who want to expand pedestrian infrastructure. Now MIT researchers, along with colleagues from multiple other universities, have developed an open-source tool that uses aerial imagery and image-recognition to create complete maps of sidewalks and crosswalks. ![]()
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