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City reviews Major Roads Plan, gets GIS 'story map' to guide access management and crash mitigation
Summary
City officials heard a presentation from WSP on an updated Major Roads Plan funded by a Tennessee Department of Transportation planning grant; the consultant showed a GIS "story map," crash-heat maps and draft access-management recommendations intended to guide future development and signal/warrant requests on state routes.
Dyersburg aldermen on Monday reviewed a draft Major Roads Plan and a digital geographic-information "story map" prepared by WSP under a Tennessee Department of Transportation planning grant.
The presentation, given by Emily Ritzler with WSP, described the plan's purpose as aligning roadway functional classifications with the city's land-use patterns and providing a data-backed tool for development review and grant applications. "We are the consulting team that's been working on on this project," Ritzler said during the short slide presentation.
Ritzler demonstrated an interactive story map that combines roadway classifications, crash data, future land-use layers and other reference maps. She pointed to a heat map of crashes and said the dataset helps identify conflict points where access (driveways…
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