Hello to the group - introductions

[bruce.moody]

I thought I would say hello to the group and introduce myself. 

I am Bruce Moody.  I work for US DOT Federal Highway Administration as a Program Management Analyst. 

Currently, I serve on a couple of Oregon DOT Technical Advisory Committees related to Bike-Ped counting.

I am looking forward to reading and discussing Bike-Ped counting related discussions on this group.

[Lake Strongheart McTighe]

Hello,

I am Lake McTighe and work with John Mermin on the Regional Bicycle and Pedestrian Count Program

Lake Strongheart McTighe

Project Manager

Active Transportation 

Metro

600 NE Grand Ave.

Portland, OR  97232-2736

503-797-1660

www.oregonmetro.gov/activetransport

[jro...@gmail.com]

Hello all,
 My name is Josh Roll and I am a transportation planner at the Central Lane MPO in Eugene-Springfield, Oregon.  I manage the regional bicycle count program fro our area.  Feel free to have a look at some of the data we have collected since the beginning of the program using portable bike specific counters.  - >

 http://www.thempo.org/what_we_do/bicycle_counts_web_a.cfm

Best,

Josh Roll

Transportation Planner

Lane Council of Governments

859 Willamette Street Suite 500

Eugene, Oregon 97402

jr...@lcog.org

Office – 541-682-2454

Fax – 541-682-4099

www.lcog.org

[michaelholloway111]

Hi,

My name is Michael Holloway, I'm glad to be here representing Toronto Canada's, "Ward 30 Bikes".

I/we hope to learn much from this learned and experienced group.

Ward 30 Bikes is part of Cycle Toronto Ward Advocacy Program - a political boundary based Ward cycling advocacy group located on the East side of Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. We advocate for Complete Streets and specifically for separated Bicycle Lanes on Toronto's Avenues.

Counting is done by City Transportation - but user fees make access to that data impossible for our non-profit groups - so to better advocate for more spending and more building of infrastructure - and most importantly to understand our base of support - this Ward group has decided to count cycling mode share this spring on several key Avenues using a simple video camera approach.

Ward 30 Bikes - blog: http://ward30bikes.blogspot.ca/
Twitter: @Ward30Bikes

[oliverbsmith4]

Greetings, 

I'm Oliver Smith, working on a fellowship through Portland State U. with Washington County (OR) Land Use and Transportation. 

Due largely to what we've learned from Krista and others, Washington County would like to expand its annual short-term bike count program to include some long-term or permanent counts. I'm interested in equipment, factoring counts to AADT, and other logistical and methodological issues. 

Cheers,

Oliver

Oliver Smith, Ph.D.

Hatfield Resident Fellow, Portland State University

Washington County Land Use and Transportation

503.846.4908

[Ray Atkinson]

Hello,

My name is Ray Atkinson. I am an aspiring transportation planner and a volunteer for Downtown Kannapolis, Inc in Kannapolis, NC. I have been working with the non-profit group, city staff and the North Carolina Research Campus to design a citywide multimodal wayfinding system. Kannapolis recently conducted what may be the city's first manual pedestrian count on downtown sidewalks. It also conducted the city's first online bicycle survey so bicycle and pedestrian count data is limited. Due to the new state Strategic Transportation Investments bill that was signed into law last year, which requires more data, I am curious to see if bicycle and pedestrian projects will be able to compete with automobile projects for funding.

I look forward to learning from this group,

Ray Atkinson | Alumnus, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Design Committee, Downtown Kannapolis Inc

Member, Charlotte Area Bicycle Alliance

Phone: (704) 787-5859 | Email: gis...@gmail.com

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[Jeff Emerson-WISDOT]

Greets all,

Jeff Emerson, a WISDOT Planning Supervisor in NW Wisconsin. I supervise our count program and our Bike Ped coordinator for the area.
We have only limited data that we gather at this point, along with our other traffic count program.
As we now have a proactive approach to making our system more user friendly for bikes and peds, I suspect we will begin to collect more data on bikes, peds.

I am interested in seasonal variations in bike and ped numbers, particularly in areas of the country that have serious winters (snow for 5+months of the year) and how that impacts design and construction, and maintenance.

[Matthew Sweet]

Hi all,

I'm Matthew and I work for the Region of Peel in Ontario, Canada.  I had the good fortune to attend an IBPI week-long bicycle planning and design workshop last summer in Portland which I would highly recommend to anyone.  In my current role as TDM Analyst, I work on a variety of programs including being responsible for developing a dedicated ped/cycling count program for use on our Regional roads.  I previously assisted in launching a similar program using EcoCounter technology for one of our local municipalities when I worked there (the City of Mississauga).

Sadly, due to IT issues I wasn't able to watch the webinar live, but am planning to sit down and view the recording one day soon!

Cheers.

[lyuba]

Hello everyone,

I am Lyuba Zuyeva and I am a transportation planner with the French Broad River MPO in Asheville, North Carolina. 

We have started collecting some automated bicycle and pedestrian counts across the five-county region using Eco-counter equipment in 2012, to supplement manual counts collected by volunteers for the City of Asheville.

 

Looking forward to the continued discussions and exchange of best practices!

Lyuba Zuyeva, AICP

ly...@landofsky.org

Transportation Planner, French Broad River Metropolitan Planning Organization

339 New Leicester Hwy., Suite 140 • Asheville, NC 28806

o: 828.251.7444 • f: 828.251.6353

On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 12:08:30 PM UTC-5, bruce.moody wrote:

[jeremy.raw]

A belated introduction:  I am Jeremy Raw, and I work at the Headquarters of the Federal Highway Administration in Washington DC in the Office of Planning, which provides oversight and technical support for the planning requirements of the Federal Aid Highway program.

I'm on the "Systems Planning and Analysis Team", which seeks to develop and deploy improved tools and techniques for the transportation planning process in areas of data management and analysis, modeling and forecasting, and GIS analysis and visualization (*).

My own areas of specialization include data analysis, modeling and forecasting for both motorized and non-motorized travel.  Here is an excerpt from my recent project portfolio:

• I was the facilitator for a recent peer exchange that FHWA conducted in 2013 on behalf of the North Central Texas Council of Governments (Dallas/Fort Worth) on setting up a regional bike/ped count program (Report: http://www.planning.dot.gov/Peer/Texas/arlington_5-29-13.pdf).
• I am currently helping to develop the next version of FHWA's Traffic Monitoring Analysis System (TMAS) which will include (in addition to its traditional function of receiving data from all the automated motorized vehicle counters in the country) the capacity to receive and report on bicycle and pedestrian counts formatted according to FHWA's Traffic Monitoring Guide specification.  The TMAS project is the next step in building national resources to track, and eventually increase, non-motorized travel (little known but true: getting more people to bike and walk is an official USDOT strategic goal).
• I'm also working on a web-based software framework and toolset that will (we hope) make it easier to move interesting bicycle and pedestrian analysis tools from research into general use.

Don't hesitate to get in touch with me if you would like to get more information on any of those projects, to set up a peer review or peer exchange for your own agency, or just to tell me about what you're doing (part of my job is to discover cool stuff and help other people learn about it and perhaps eventually do it themselves):  Jeremy Raw (jerem...@dot.gov, 202-366-0986)

On a personal note, I was a software developer for many years, and got interested in transportation planning after I moved from New York City to Durham, NC, and found myself frustrated with the limited transportation options.  I'm also a certified League Cycling Instructor with the League of American Bicyclists.

Best regards,

Jeremy

(*) Some other key activities on my team include the Travel Model Improvement Program (Sarah Sun), support for GIS in Transportation (Mark Sarmiento), the web-based HEPGIS site to disseminate planning information (Supin Yoder), and a variety of resources on how to use Census products such as CTPP and other travel survey programs and data in the planning process (Elaine Murakami).

[Greg Griffin, AICP]

I'm a researcher with TTI, with particular interests in 2 aspects of bicycle and pedestrian monitoring:

• combining crowdsourced data with traditional bike/ped counts to extend coverage of volume estimates
• understanding and affecting the relationship of counting with planning processes, including policymaking

Recent projects related to this field were:

• Authoring TRB’s Transportation Research Circular E-C183: Monitoring Bicyclist and Pedestrian Travel and Behavior with Krista Nordback and others
• Designing a monitoring plan for the Austin, TX region: Active Transportation Monitoring Plan: Initial Evaluation of Bicycling and Walking Baseline & Planned Traffic Counts through 2015
• Developing a method for planning practicioners to estimate future active transport demand with readily available data: Simple Techniques for Forecasting Bicycle and Pedestrian Demand
  

I look forward from learning from others here how we can improve monitoring and decision making for each of our communities, and our field!

Greg Griffin, AICP
Associate Transportation Researcher
Texas A&M Transportation Institute

505 E Huntland Dr, Suite 455

Austin, TX 78752

Tel 512.407-1111
http://tti.tamu.edu/group/pep/

[Kurt Wallace]

Hi there,

I'm Kurt Martin, I work for Bikes Make Life Better, a consulting group that focuses on providing bicycle solutions to large corporations such as Facebook and Wells Fargo. As such, we work with government, advocacy, and private companies to improve infrastructure to get more people on bikes for more trips. Some of our most exciting projects involve public infrastructure projects, and getting great design and innovations implemented, so accurate counts are always an important tool.
 
Kurt Wallace Martin
415.412.7033
www.bikesmakelifebetter.com