OpenThePaths 2025
Seattle, Washington, United States
Virtual + University of Washington, Seattle, WA
This is a hybrid virtual + in-person event.
Registration is open and completely free! Register here!
Full conference details including the list of speakers, agenda, and directions are available at https://tdei.cs.washington.edu/open-the-paths-2025/
A Conference on Open Data Exchange to Improve Multimodal Travel
The University of Washington’s Transportation Data Exchange Initiative (TDEI) will host the 8th annual OpenThePaths conference from March 27-28, 2025.
OpenThePaths is a dynamic gathering of advocates, planners, researchers, and policymakers dedicated to expanding and sustaining pedestrian-friendly infrastructure. Over the past decade, we’ve made incredible strides in prioritizing walkability, accessibility, and active transportation. As the landscape of transportation policy evolves, this conference will explore how data-driven insights, cross-sector collaboration, and community advocacy can help us continue building on that progress.
This year, we are proud to launch OS-CONNECT, the first-ever statewide, standardized accessibility-first sidewalk dataset for Washington State, funded by the WA state legislative proviso. OS-CONNECT is the largest connected pedestrian graph schematized and annotated dataset of pedestrian ways, providing a critical foundation for improving pedestrian infrastructure, accessibility planning, and transportation.