2013 Partner: Summit County, OH[BETA]
Create a dynamic and interactive, multi-jurisdictional approach to providing end-user/public information on regional hiking, bicycling, and water trails systems. Ideally, citizens would navigate seamlessly through trail information, provided by various communities or organizations, and perhaps consumers themselves, from one location or platform. Current technology requires users to navigate individually through numerous websites, or maps with limited information, each with a different look and feel and each static in nature. Surrounding communities, counties and park systems will be encouraged to take advantage of the solution developed by CfA, to increase the geographic footprint of the resulting application, thus engaging a larger population of end-users and benefitting the region as a whole.
Goal: maximize the opportunity for enhanced community engagement and use of the regional trail system
Key Outcomes:
- a sustainable, human-centered, web-based solution for comprehensive integration of regional hiking, bicycling, and water trail information
- increased collaboration and partnership between trail and greenway stakeholders including citizen end-users of the regional trail system
- increased population served by regional trail system
Lead Agency: County of Summit Community and Economic Development Department
Primary City Contacts: Patrick Bravo (Deputy Director, Community and Economic Development)
Core Partners: Ohio and Erie Canalway Coalition, Summit County Greenway Coalition, Metro Parks, City of Akron, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Akron Metro RTA, Greater Akron Chamber
