Fairfax County Public Schools 188 school zones free
SafeWalkr finds the safest routes to school for students. We track Street View at every point on the route to curate safer paths, on top of county-wide traffic and sidewalk data.
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Imagery: Google Street View.
We routed all 9,731 homes in our 14 walk zones both ways: shortest, then safest.
The safest route cuts walking in the roadway of busy roads by 86%, and it typically adds 25 seconds to the walk. An app that only finds the shortest route cannot see the difference. Read the measurement.
Today's routes run on the county inventory. The imagery verdicts join the engine zone by zone.
A panorama at every junction of the pedestrian network.
A vision model returns sidewalk or none, road type, canopy, and a risk score.
The verdict is written onto that block's edge, beside the county sidewalk and traffic data.
Cost rises with traffic and falls with sidewalks. The shortest path and the safest path are no longer the same.
Everything below is live. Open it in your own neighborhood.
SafeWalkr already routes every attendance zone in the county. Next: every route will rest on what the imagery shows, block by block.
