A Major Leap Forward for TxDOT’s TAMES Platform
Our Apps & Integration team just wrapped a major generational upgrade of TxDOT’s TAMES application—TxDOT’s Accessibility Management Enterprise System. TAMES is a web and mobile solution built on the ArcGIS Enterprise platform, designed to help TxDOT elevate accessibility across the state’s transportation network.
TAMES powers a wide range of accessibility workflows, including:
ADA Self‑Evaluations – supporting systematic assessment of physical barriers and compliance standards.
Accessibility Data Management – tracking, organizing, and visualizing accessibility information to guide remediation.
A Comprehensive Accessibility Program – enabling 100% public right‑of‑way data collection, progress monitoring, and expenditure reporting.
What We Loved About This Work
A full‑stack overhaul.
This upgrade touched every layer: data elements, data stores, services, a completely new API, and a rebuilt front‑end using the Calcite design system. Delivering modern performance, rock‑solid architecture, and a clean, reimagined user experience for such an important system was incredibly rewarding.
A chance to flex across disciplines.
Projects like this bring out the best in our team. We worked across data science, system architecture, geospatial application engineering, integrations, QA (manual + automated), and UX/UI design—and got to bring all of those pieces together into a unified, modernized solution.
Designing for accessibility specialists.
One of the most energizing challenges was tailoring Esri’s ecosystem to fit the specific workflows of accessibility SMEs. TAMES now offers intuitive pathways for different roles and responsibilities—covering the wide range of questions and tasks tied to ADA compliance.
And… we love transportation work.
This project hits home for the transportation engineers, planners, and enthusiasts on our team. Helping TxDOT advance accessibility across such a large and complex system is the kind of challenge we show up excited for.
Major thanks and appreciation to our project partners from AIP and Cole & Associates for their leadership and collaboration on this team effort!