{"product_id":"2940148859208","title":"PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE DATA COLLECTION","description":"Non-motorized (i.e., bicycle and pedestrian) travel monitoring has become an important element \u003cbr\u003ein numerous agencies’ planning efforts. However, there is no standardized technology for \u003cbr\u003econducting counts. Most bicycle and pedestrian monitoring programs use periodic manual \u003cbr\u003ecounts. Continuous monitoring programs are becoming more commonplace with infrared \u003cbr\u003ecounters being the most popular technology, but video and laser counting technology appear to \u003cbr\u003ebe promising. Pneumatic tubes and inductive loops, while not practical for pedestrian traffic, \u003cbr\u003ehave been used effectively on bicycle facilities. Each of these methods has its best applications \u003cbr\u003efor given specific operational, geometric, and weather-related factors. Information collected \u003cbr\u003eduring the course of this project is summarized in Table 1. However, limited guidance is \u003cbr\u003ecurrently available to agencies on best practices to implement a non-motorized counting \u003cbr\u003eprogram. Widely available documents include the following:\u003cbr\u003e•  The AASHTO Guide for the Planning, Design, and Operation of Pedestrian Facilities \u003cbr\u003e•  The AASHTO Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities \u003cbr\u003eNeither of these two documents contains more than a handful of sentences addressing count \u003cbr\u003ecollection, utilization or storage. Updates are underway to the AASHTO pedestrian guide that \u003cbr\u003eare expected to result in more information on creating pedestrian counting programs. \u003cbr\u003eThis project was conducted to provide a summary of the state-of-the-practice for counting \u003cbr\u003eprograms which collect data on non-motorized travel. The methods, equipment, factoring, \u003cbr\u003estorage, and reporting were all of interest. The first task of the project was a literature review. \u003cbr\u003eThe material resulting from the literature review was used to develop a set of webinars, which \u003cbr\u003efunctioned as a two-way exchange of information. The results of the literature review were \u003cbr\u003epresented during the webinars. Unpublished information on current practice and activities was \u003cbr\u003erequested via a series of polls as the webinar proceeded. In addition, discussions with eight \u003cbr\u003eindividuals active in various aspects of pedestrian and or bicycle data collection have been \u003cbr\u003edocumented in this report.  The summary of both activities will support the current Traffic \u003cbr\u003eMonitoring Guide (TMG) update, including potentially suggesting record formats which could \u003cbr\u003ebe adopted nationwide to simplify data exchange between organizations.","brand":"ReadCycle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47148957204720,"sku":"2940148859208","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148859208_p0.jpg?v=1763708979","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148859208","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}