Pilot active — Morris County, NJ

Traffic safety evidence,
automatically
assembled.

CivicLens analyzes publicly available traffic camera feeds and transportation data to generate the safety evidence packages municipalities need to win SS4A and federal transportation grants. What normally takes 6–9 months takes minutes.

Pilot towns Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ Boonton, NJ
Route 46 at Troy Hills Road — Corridor Analysis
SS4A Ready
82
Priority score
/ 100
47
Pedestrians/hr
peak AM
3
Infrastructure
gaps flagged
No crosswalk No signal School 890ft Transit 340ft EJ Community LSAP Listed
Parsippany-Troy Hills — Top Priority Corridors
7 corridors
Route 46 × Troy Hills Rd
82
Main St × Littleton Rd
76
Route 202 × Kitchell Rd
71
Parsippany × Baldwin Rd
70
Auto-generated SS4A Safety Need narrative
"The Route 46 / Troy Hills Road corridor demonstrates acute pedestrian safety need consistent with SS4A Safe System Approach criteria. NJTPA traffic counts record 47 pedestrians per hour at peak AM school arrival against three documented infrastructure gaps — no marked crosswalk, no signalized crossing, and a sidewalk gap within the school zone buffer. The corridor is independently identified in the Morris County Local Safety Action Plan (Sept 2024)..."

How it works

From public data to
grant-ready evidence

CivicLens automates the evidence assembly process that currently takes 6–9 months and $50–200K in engineering studies.

01
Search your municipality
Any US town or city. CivicLens resolves it to a Census FIPS code and builds the municipal profile automatically.
02
Discover and score corridors
We discover publicly available traffic cameras and score each corridor by safety need — school proximity, missing infrastructure, EJ status, crash history.
03
Assemble evidence layers
Pedestrian counts, flood zone data, demographic vulnerability, infrastructure gaps, and designation flags are pulled from public sources and cited.
04
Export grant narrative
AI-generated Safety Need narrative maps your corridor data directly to SS4A scoring criteria. Export as PDF. Ready to include in your application.

Evidence categories

Every data layer a
grant reviewer needs

Six evidence categories assembled from public sources — no field surveys, no engineering studies required.

🚦
Road Safety
Camera-based corridor scoring, crash history from NJTR-1 and FARS, EPDO severity weighting, pedestrian volume from NJTPA counts.
Available
🌊
Flood & Climate
FEMA FIRM flood zone designation, NFIP repetitive loss records, NOAA precipitation data, Atlas 14 storm depth.
Available
👥
Demographic Vulnerability
EJScreen v2.3 designation, Census income and disability data, minority population flags, EJ community overlap scoring.
Available
🌳
Environmental Conditions
NLCD tree canopy coverage and annual loss rate for urban forestry and climate resilience grant applications.
Coming soon
🏗️
Infrastructure Condition
Bridge condition from NBI, sidewalk gap mapping from OpenStreetMap, pavement condition proxy from satellite data.
Coming soon
📉
Economic Distress
Unemployment, poverty rate, median household income, USDA rural designation, Opportunity Zone and Persistent Poverty status.
Available

Supported grants

Built around the grants
your town is applying for

Evidence packages map directly to scoring criteria — not generic safety language.

USDOT / FHWA
Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A)
Competitive grant for safety action plans and implementation. CivicLens generates Safety Need, Safety Impact, and Equity scoring evidence.
Up to $25M per award
NJDOT
Safe Streets to Transit
NJ state program for pedestrian improvements near transit. CivicLens maps pedestrian incidents, transit proximity, and Complete Streets gaps.
Up to $3M per project
FEMA
HMGP / Flood Mitigation Assistance
Hazard mitigation grants requiring flood vulnerability documentation. CivicLens assembles FEMA FIRM, NFIP, and NOAA precipitation evidence.
75% federal cost share
NJDOT
Municipal Aid Program
Annual NJ road improvement funding. CivicLens provides corridor condition evidence and traffic volume documentation.
Formula-based allocation
USDA Forest Service
Urban Forestry Stewardship
Grants for urban tree canopy programs. CivicLens provides NLCD canopy coverage, loss rate, and EJ community overlap.
Up to $500K
USDOT
Reconnecting Communities
Planning and capital grants addressing transportation barriers. CivicLens documents demographic burden and infrastructure gaps.
Up to $50M capital

Active pilot

Morris County, NJ
pilot underway

CivicLens is actively building evidence packages for two Morris County municipalities targeting SS4A FY2026 applications. Data sources include NJTPA pedestrian counts, the Morris County Local Safety Action Plan, and publicly available NJDOT corridor data.

Parsippany-Troy Hills Township
Morris County · 53,238 residents · 24.7 sq mi
3402956550
Boonton Town
Morris County · 8,496 residents · 1.8 sq mi
3402907850
68
Federal and NJ state grants in the catalog
13
Designation signals scored per municipality
6–9mo
Typical evidence assembly time replaced by minutes
SS4A
Primary grant target for FY2026 pilot applications