Washington State Pedestrian and Bicycle Miles Traveled Project
Krista Nordback
Estimates of vehicle miles traveled (VMT) drive policy and planning decisions for surface transportation. No similar metric is computed for cycling and walking. What approaches could be used to compute such a metric on the state level? This report di ...
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Online Implementation Resource of Innovative Bicycle and Pedestrian Facilities (IBPI)
Jennifer Dill
Online Implementation Resource of Innovative Bicycle and Pedestrian Facilities sponsored by Summit Foundation
IBPI: Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation ...
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Safety Effectiveness of Pedestrian Crossing Enhancements
Christopher Monsere
Miguel Andres Figliozzi
The objective of this research is to estimate the effectiveness of PCEs on multimodal safety in Oregon design contexts to derive CMFs calibrated to Oregon (i.e. not only pedestrian crashes but also motorized vehicles and bicycle crashes in the vicini ...
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Incorporating Pedestrian Considerations into Signal Timing
Sirisha Kothuri
The role of walking in the development of healthy, livable communities is being increasingly recognized. In urban areas, intersections represent locations where different modes converge, and are often viewed as deterrents to walking. This is due to t ...
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Travel Mode Choice Framework Incorporating Realistic Bike and Walk Routes
Joe Broach
For a number of reasons (congestion, public health, greenhouse gas emissions, energy use, demographic shifts, and community livability to name a few), the importance of walking and bicycling as transportation options will likely continue to increase. ...
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Application of Interactive Video Sensing and Management for Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Studies
Wu-chi Feng
Christopher Monsere , Miguel Andres Figliozzi
As video data collection and storage technologies become ubiquitous and inexpensive, transportation agencies struggle to process and extract "intelligence" or useful information from growing libraries of archived video data. In some cases us ...
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Exploring Racial Bias in Drivers' Behavior at Pedestrian Crossings
Kimberly Kahn
Racial minorities are disproportionately represented in pedestrian traffic fatalities, indicating a significant public health and safety issue. Psychological and social identity-related factors have previously been shown to influence drivers’ behav ...
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Better Representation of the Pedestrian Environment in Travel Demand Models
Kelly Clifton
Robert Schneider , Jennifer Toole
There is growing support for improvements to the quality of the walking environment, including more investments to promote pedestrian travel. Metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) are improving regional travel demand forecasting models to better ...
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Design and Implementation of Pedestrian and Bicycle-Specific Data Collection Methods in Oregon
Miguel Andres Figliozzi
Christopher Monsere
Although there is a growing need to access accurate and reliable pedestrian and bicycle data, there is no statewide system to collect data or plan future data collection efforts in the state of Oregon. To address these issues this research conducted ...
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Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan Update Quantitative Case Studies
Kelly Clifton
Quantitative Case Studies for the Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan Update
ODOT/USDOT ...
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Promoting Active School Travel by Making it Cool: a quasi-experimental study using Boltage
Yizhao Yang
Lynn Weigand , Ihab Elzeyadi , Noreen McDonald , William Harbaugh (consultant)
Research on children's school travel suggests two sets of factors critically affect the use of active school commuting modes (i.e., walking or biking) among children. The first involves external factors, such as trip distance, neighborhood walkabilit ...
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Improved Pedestrian Safety at Signalized Intersections Operating the Flashing Yellow Arrow
David Hurwitz
Christopher Monsere
In some jurisdictions, protected left-turn phasing has been replaced with the flashing yellow arrow (FYA) for protected/permissive left turns (PPLTs) to reduce delay. However, it is important to have a thorough understanding of the conflict between p ...
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