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(calm music)
(logo whooshing)

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- [Narrator] Accommodating
people traveling

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by bike or on foot was a
key component of updates

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in the Texas Department
of Transportation's

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roadway design manual.

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The manual favorite
shared use paths, or SUPs,

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over other designs, but did
not have detailed information

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on how to estimate the number of people

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who will use the new
path before building it,

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an outcome that is influenced
by the path's design.

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Using current sources
of information, TxDOT,

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along with the Texas A&M
Transportation Institute,

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developed a sketch planning tool

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to improve estimation accuracy.

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- It is very hard to
estimate how many people

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will actually use a new
trail once it's built

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if nobody is biking and
walking in the area today

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because there's no place for them to be.

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- Shared use paths have become
more popular in the world,

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also in our region, because
they provide a safer access

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to active transportation for
biking, walking, rolling.

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Unfortunately, though,
we don't have the data

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to support the investments.

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We still lack a lot of
active transportation data

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and tools to understand the demand,

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so this project really fills in that gap

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by providing resources and tools

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to estimate the demand
for bicycling and walking

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on shared use paths.

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- [Bonnie] This project is intended

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to analyze various available datasets

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to identify ones that
are closely associated

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with bicycle and pedestrian usage

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and to help us estimate the latent demand

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for anticipated future use.

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- [Ipek] We conducted many
stakeholder interviews,

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which provided fantastic insights for us

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to better shape the next
steps, then we used data.

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We compiled various
different data sources,

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whether these are publicly
available data sources

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or data sources that are
available to us through TxDOT,

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to make sure that end result

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is always available and accessible,

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and we took all the
output to use as an input

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into easy-to-use tools for our end users,

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so we developed two different tools

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to make the process easier for them

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to understand the demand.

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- One tool is a spreadsheet

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that you input demographic or
land use data into the tool,

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and it estimates a range
of potential activity

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that can be expected or the latent demand

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that can be expected on that trail.

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The other part of the
tool is a map-based tool

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that you can kind of
explore the data associated

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with bicycle and pedestrian activity,

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so it has things like
the locations of schools

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and the locations of transit stops

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and various activities or demographic data

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that are commonly associated

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with bicycle and pedestrian activity.

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- A planner or a professional
transportation professional,

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for instance, can go into the tool,

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try to understand all these
different data sources

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and how they interact with the behavior

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to understand where they
could put the shared use path

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or how the shared use path
usage will be influenced

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by different characteristics.

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- [Narrator] For more information

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and to find the publication
for this project,

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please visit the TxDOT research library

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at the link shown below.