Bicycle and pedestrian travel demand forecasting : summary of data collection activities

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• Creators:
  Hottenstein, Aaron ; Turner, Shawn ; Shunk, Gordon
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Travel demand management
  • Cyclists
  • Pedestrians
  • Nonmotorized transportation
  • Data collection
  • Sketch planning
  • Trip distribution
  • Trip purpose Modeling
  • Texas
  • Travel demand forecasting
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/TX-98/1723-2
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Texas
• Corporate Publisher:
  Texas Transportation Institute
• Abstract:
  This report summarizes data collection activities performed at eight different sites in Texas urban areas. The data ; were collected to help develop and test bicycle and pedestrian travel demand forecasting techniques. The ; research team collected data about actual bicycle and pedestrian facility usage rates (i.e., 12-hour volume counts) ; and trip characteristics (i.e., trip origin and destination, length, purpose, and frequency). The volume count and ; survey data were collected on bicycle and pedestrian facilities in College Station, Austin, Houston, and Dallas. ; The research team developed several preliminary findings from the data collection activities. The usage levels ; at data collection sites ranged from high-use side streets (Timber/Bizzell Street, Shoal Creek Boulevard) to high-use ; separated paths (Brays Bayou Trail and White Rock Lake Trail) to low-use state highways (FM 2818, RM ; 2222). Also, usage levels varied considerably for some sites during the three days of data collection. There was ; no apparent explanation for this day-to-day variability at some sites, but the research team will investigate this ; issue in future data analysis tasks. Useful information was gathered about bicycle and pedestrian trip generators ; and trip length distributions. This trip information will be particularly useful for developing and testing demand ; forecasting models. Several of the sites had low survey response rates, which means that the trip information ; gathered at these sites may not be representative of the entire bicycle and pedestrian population. The researchers ; may have to supplement sites having low survey response rates with information from other sites or studies.
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  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/4836/dot_4836_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.27 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
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