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Evaluation of Bicycle and Pedestrian Monitoring Equipment to Establish Collection Database Methodologies for Estimating Non-Motorized Transportation

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What Was the Need?

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) currently has very limited data to evaluate pedestrian and bicyclist usage of the transportation system. This lack of data affects a number of areas in transportation, including safety, planning, design, and traffic operations.

What's the Solution?

In this project, the research team will recommend a usage/volume monitoring process for pedestrians and bicyclists that can be sustained statewide with minimal impact to district resources, while maximizing the useful impact to district operations and planning. The researchers will evaluate monitoring equipment, approaches and processes in two pilot locations—most likely Houston and Austin. These approaches may include permanent and portable counter equipment, manual counts, surveys, or crowd-sourced pedestrian and bicyclist data. In the two pilot locations, the researchers will compile all collected data into a single consolidated database, which will be used to provide a report with recommended performance measures. The consolidated database will also include a mechanism by which metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) and local agencies can compile and submit data into a single statewide pedestrian and bicyclist count database.

Project Number

0-6927

Status

Completed

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Project Details

Start Date

9/1/2016

End Date

8/31/2018

Performing Institution(s)

Texas A & M Transportation Institute (TTI)

Research Team

RS: Shawn Turner

Sponsor

Project Manager

Chris Glancy

Contract Specialist

Patti Dathe

Amount Funded

FY17: $118,561
FY18: $241,182

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Functional Area

Planning and Environmental

Index Terms

Nonmotorized transportation
Data collection
Traffic data
Traffic surveillance
Pedestrians
Cyclists

Lead University

TTI

Researcher

Turner, Shawn M.

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kevyn

Listen to KUT Austin 90.5 interview and coverage of this project's goals at http://kut.org/post/research-aims-get-handle-how-cities-share-bike-and-pedestrian-data-txdot

12/5/2017 at 9:43 AM

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kevyn

An online map of Texas bicycle and pedestrian count locations (by county or TxDOT District) and the data from each location can be found at https://mobility.tamu.edu/bikepeddata/

The web page includes a link to an archived webinar about the Bicycle and Pedestrian Data Exchange. The second portion of the webinar describes the map and tools:
(1) Vision for Count Exchange / Bonnie Sherman, TxDOT
(2) Exchange Demonstration / Phil Lasley, TTI
(3) Question and Answer on the Count Exchange
(4) Other Research Project Resources / Shawn Turner, TTI
(5) Final Question and Answer

9/2/2019 at 9:48 PM

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Record Added:

2/15/2017

Record Updated:

1/25/2022 5:38 AM EST

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