Downtown Hawkinsville
Everyday trips between neighborhoods, shops, and community destinations (CREAT).
TRAVELS · Georgia
From community needs to a mapped rural route
In Hawkinsville and Pulaski County, Georgia, UGA is connecting local mobility priorities with route planning and infrastructure evidence for the TRAVELS program.
Candidate service routes · Planning and infrastructure assessment
UGA’s contribution.
Handong Yao’s UGA team met county and city leaders on July 13, 2026, discussed a route linking residential areas with the regional hospital, and collected data for HD mapping.
From needs to evidence
A community-informed
research process.
Understand local trips
Discuss everyday access and healthcare travel with local officials, then connect those needs to candidate service concepts.
Collect route evidence
Survey the Hawkinsville route and collect data for an HD map and LiDAR point cloud, documenting the physical road environment.
Make challenges visible
Publish an interactive viewer that connects lane geometry with route annotations, supporting inspection and discussion of rural driving challenges.
Candidate service concepts
Connecting people
to everyday places.
Routes under planning and assessment.
Taylor Regional Hospital
Healthcare access between the hospital and nearby residential and community areas (HONR-AV).
Veterans Memorial Park
Short recreation, tourism, and event trips linking the park, downtown, and nearby neighborhoods (TEAS).
Explore the field data
Hawkinsville, mapped.
Explore the recorded route and infrastructure challenges in the interactive viewer. The associated release provides the Lanelet2 HD map and LiDAR point-cloud data.
Open the interactive map
Loads the 3D viewer with about 70 MB of LiDAR and HD-map data.