— What this dashboard is

A planning resource, not professional advice.

The dashboard supports town planning conversations: grant readiness, capital allocation, tourism partnership decisions, regulatory updates, and coalition building. It does not replace licensed planning consultants, legal counsel, or grant-writing review. Town Board capital commitments and grant applications should be reviewed with appropriate professional advisors before commitment.

— Data sources

Multi-source, refreshed continuously.

Venue accessibility data is aggregated from multiple sources, including on-site visits, community contributions, business owner submissions, and AI-assisted extraction. The dataset refreshes continuously as new records are added and existing records are updated. Visitor traffic signals come from the ROLLIN iOS app's geofenced check-ins, aggregated to counts only; no individual user data appears on the dashboard.

— How insights are generated

Deterministic, research-grounded templates.

Every interpretation on the dashboard is generated by a deterministic engine: same data in, same output. No live language-model calls happen in the render path, which means insights cannot hallucinate. Templates are pre-written and cite municipal-planning frameworks listed below; live database values fill in the numbers. A future predictive-insights layer will use offline language-model analysis with human review before any output reaches the dashboard.

— Cited frameworks

The research backing dashboard interpretations.

Each grant recommendation, capital-priority framing, and tourism-strategy reference draws from established institutional sources. Click any framework to read the source.

• AARP Network of Age-Friendly States and Communities Eight-domain framework, action-plan cycle, Community Challenge grant program. Source
• AARP Community Challenge 2026 $15K Flagship + $25K Demonstration grants, March 4 2026 deadline. Source
• WHO Age-Friendly Cities Framework Eight livability domains plus 43 outcome indicators for municipal age-friendliness measurement. Source
• FHWA / ADA Title II Transition Planning Self-evaluation and transition-plan requirements for public entities. Source
• ADA Title II Primer (DOJ) Compliance posture, 50-employee threshold, 2024 web/mobile rule. Source
• NYS Downtown Revitalization Initiative $10M per-region awards, Round 9. Source
• NY Forward $4.5M per-award DRI variant. Cornwall is a Round 1 winner. Source
• NYS CDBG Public-facility funding for accessibility infrastructure. 2026 deadline March 20. Source
• NYS Climate Smart Communities 2026 $18M round, deadline July 31, 2026. Source
• I LOVE NY Accessible Travel State-level accessible-travel marketing surface. Source
• Wheel the World Verified Destination (Dutchess County precedent) 2024 NYS Tourism Excellence in Equity and Inclusion Award winner. Source
• ITE Planning and Funding Accessible Pedestrian Facilities Standard practice for prioritizing pedestrian-accessibility capital by use volume. Source
• Open Doors Organization 2024 Disability Travel Study $50B+ U.S. disability-traveler annual spending, 2022–2024 period. Source
• MMGY Global Portrait of Travelers with Disabilities 84% of mobility-disabled travelers cite pre-visit accessibility information as the top destination factor. Source
• Bloomberg What Works Cities Data-driven local government certification framework, eight practice areas. Source

— Limitations

What the dashboard does not claim.

• Data lagDocumentation may lag actual physical conditions. Verify with the venue before relying on a specific feature for an individual visit.
• Not professional adviceCapital, legal, and grant-application decisions should be reviewed by licensed planners and counsel before commitment.
• Grant fit scoringFit scores reflect documented eligibility criteria from the cited grant programs. They are not predictions of award outcomes; reviewers make final decisions.
• Visitor trafficCheck-in counts represent ROLLIN iOS app users only. They are a directional signal of accessibility-conscious visitor flow, not a full visitor census.
• Predictive insightsThe predictive-insights layer activates as additional partner municipalities onboard, providing comparative baselines. Cornwall is the foundational dataset.

— Audit log access

Every dashboard view + change is logged.

All dashboard reads, feedback submissions, and admin actions are written to an audit log with a hash-chain integrity check. Town administrators can request access to their town's audit log by emailing the ROLLIN partnership team. The log is the source of truth for any compliance review of how the dashboard has been used during the partnership.

— Update cadence

Live, with a 60-second cache.

The dashboard re-runs the engine on every load and serves results from a 60-second in-memory cache per town. Daily metric snapshots are captured at 2:15 AM UTC into the time-series table that powers trajectory charts. Underlying venue records refresh continuously as the data pipeline runs.