The 2024 Frances B. Francois Award for Innovation goes to the Utah Department of Transportation’s Right of Way (ROW) Group. Tasked with creating a statewide GIS property inventory, the ROW team faced a daunting manual review of 90,000 plan sheets. A breakthrough occurred when GIS team member Ben Teran proposed using AI for automated parcel identification. By leveraging Google Cloud and Vision AI tools, the team reduced a 33.5-year manual task to under a year, identifying over 52,000 parcels and transforming UDOT’s data efficiency and accuracy.
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