Deploying Non-Motorized Travel Analysis Tools: Overview of a Research Project Jeremy Raw Office of Planning Federal Highway Administration October 2013
Jul 14, 2015
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
Deploying Non-Motorized Travel Analysis Tools
• 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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Deploying Non-Motorized Travel Analysis Tools
• 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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Deploying Non-Motorized Travel Analysis Tools
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
202-366-0986
Working with the NMTK