I’m planning 2025 credits around a 1‑mile walkshed redesign tied to a new BRT corridor and need CEUs that move beyond charrettes into co‑creation, metrics, and policy — practical training in power mapping, ArcGIS StoryMaps, and measuring 15‑minute access to daily needs. Any recent courses (AIAU, Planetizen, GSD Exec Ed or others) that truly sharpened your community engagement on street transformations?
I got the most lift from Planetizen’s ArcGIS StoryMaps primer paired with Esri Learn’s “Service Area” exercise (https://learn.arcgis.com); I used Network Analyst to map 15‑minute walk isochrones across a 1‑mile BRT walkshed and embedded a swipe + one‑question poll in the StoryMap so residents co‑created priorities. It took a weekend to stand up and produced before/after metrics the city could port into policy; small caveat: it’s light on power mapping, so I supplemented with a quick influence/interest grid in Miro.
@jolivares76 is on point — what moved the needle for us was Planetizen’s accessibility metrics course; we generated 15‑minute isochrones with GTFS/OpenTripPlanner and pressure‑tested BRT walksheds using ArcGIS Location‑Allocation before co‑creation, then carried the scenarios into a StoryMap for live feedback — caveat: OTP setup is fussy the first time.
AIAU’s data-driven engagement session helped; ArcGIS Pro Location-Allocation nailed daily-needs coverage within a 1-mile walkshed and “power mapping” conversations.
I got real traction after IAP2 Foundations (https://www.iap2.org); we used its influence–interest grid to target outreach, then embedded a Survey123 form in our StoryMap so neighbors could “vote” on tradeoffs and we could track who was under‑represented before setting scenarios. CE credit wasn’t automatic for AIA, so we self‑reported LUs with a short summary of outcomes.
For your BRT corridor StoryMaps, Esri Academy’s ‘ArcGIS StoryMaps: Engage and Inspire’ helped; no AIA LU though: Esri Training.
Quick example: on a BRT corridor walkshed last year, we paired AIAU’s equity engagement talks with ArcGIS Pro’s OD Cost Matrix to quantify “15‑minute access to daily needs” by time of day, then dropped the outputs into a StoryMap and used the map as a power‑mapping prompt with CBOs; doc here: https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/analysis/od-cost-matrix.htm. Caveat: you’ll need the Network Analyst extension, but it’s the one workflow that consistently moves our co‑creation beyond charrettes into metrics and policy.
Did the GSD Exec Ed short course on co‑design and power mapping last spring (AIA LU/HSW) and it translated directly to a 1‑mile walkshed around a new BRT: we built an “interest × influence” map to prioritize voices, then used ArcGIS Online service‑area polygons to check ‘15‑minute access’ before publishing the StoryMap… Small caveat: for deeper GIS chops, Esri’s Network Analyst: Service Areas training is better but no AIA credit, and @rajpatel34’s Survey123 embed rounds out the workflow.
Embedded Survey123 in StoryMaps for 1‑mile walkshed co‑creation; IAP2 helped power mapping — no AIA credit (iap2.org/training).