New Tools for Estimating Walking and Bicycling Demand

Deploying Non-Motorized Travel Analysis Tools:

Overview of a Research Project

Jeremy Raw Office of Planning

Federal Highway Administration

October 2013

Deploying Non-Motorized Travel Analysis Tools

• Deployment Challenges for Non-Motorized Tools

• A Framework for Development and Deployment

• Working with the Non-Motorized Toolkit

Overview

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• Planning Context • MAP-21

• Performance Measures

• Performance-Based Planning

• Scenario Planning

• Delivering Tools to Planners

• Building on existing research

Deployment Challenges for Non-Motorized Tools

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• What is a performance measure?

• Existing measures focus on uniquely motorized problems

• How do we develop new performance measures?

Performance Measures

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• Deploy easy-to-use analysis tools for planners with a consistent interface

• Facilitate construction of new analysis tools by researchers and developers

• Opportunities for commercialization in a competitive, open development environment

• Foster constructive innovation in research and practice

Delivering Tools to Planners

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• Provide a structured environment for creating tools

• Consistent hosts and interface for end users

• Best practices for research distribution • Reproducible research

The Non-Motorized Toolkit

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• University of Minnesota Models • Bicycle Ridership

• Pedestrian

• Estimate 12-hour Counts

• Two Model Forms • Ordinary Least Squares Regression

• Negative Binomial Regression

• San Francisco Pedestrian Intersection Volume • Estimate Annual Pedestrian Volume

Initial Models

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1. Practicing Planners

Participate in an NMTK Orientation and join the test team

2. Researchers and Tool Developers

Get the Toolkit Code and start developing tools

Contact: Jeremy Raw

Jeremy.Raw@dot.gov

202-366-0986

Working with the NMTK