Bike-Ped Portal : development of an online nonmotorized traffic count archive.

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• Creators:
  Nordback, Krista ; Tufte, Kristin ; McNeil, Nathan ; Harvey, Morgan ; Watkins, Michelle
• Corporate Creators:
  Portland State University. Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC)
• Corporate Contributors:
  National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Pedestrian counts
  • Traffic counts
  • Nonmotorized transportation
  • Data banks
  • Data collection
  • Performance measurement
  • Data quality
  • Visualization
• Publication/ Report Number:
  NITC-RR-817
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Final report
• Corporate Publisher:
  National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC)
• Abstract:
  Robust bicycle and pedestrian data on a national scale would serve numerous purposes. Access to a centralized nonmotorized traffic count ; archive can open the door for innovation through research, design and planning; provide safety researchers with a measure of exposure; provide ; fundamental performance metrics for planning and funding decisions; and allow policymakers and transportation professionals to better support ; the public’s desire for livable communities. Numerous jurisdictions have initiated nonmotorized traffic count programs. However, many ; agencies and policymakers, who need data to support investment decisions, are in locations without a centralized count program. This lack of ; access to count data may lead some decision-makers, planners and engineers to assume that cycling and walking levels are close enough to zero ; to be ignored. Providing reliable numbers may reveal a surprising amount of walking and bicycling is taking place. ; In order to organize and promote the collection of nonmotorized traffic data, a team of transportation professionals and computer scientists has ; created a national nonmotorized traffic count archive called Bike-Ped Portal. This archive enables data sharing by centralizing both continuous ; and short-duration traffic counts in an online archive. While other archives exist, this is the first that is both national in scope and enables data ; to be directly uploaded to the site. This archive includes online input, basic data quality and visualization functions, and the ability to download ; user-specified data. In addition, the archive has an API and a demonstration site for training new data wranglers, and is able to transfer count ; data directly from one vendor database (Eco-Counter’s Eco-Visio).
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/32302/dot_32302_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.96 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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