1. Bike-Ped Portal The National Online Non-motorized Traffic Count Archive
Krista Nordback, Ph.D., P.E., Kristin Tufte, Ph.D.
Morgan Harvey, Nathan McNeil
March 14, 2016
Oregon Active Transportation Summit
10 to 15 minutes; Portland State University’s national online archive of pedestrian and bicycle count data and how it can be used to inform planning and design

2. Thank you to our partners!
Oregon Community Foundation
Funded by NITC, ODOT, Oregon MPOs, Cities of Boulder and Austin, and FHWA
Bend Metropolitan Planning Organization (Bend, OR), Mid-Willamette Valley Council of Governments (Salem, OR)
Rogue Valley Council of Governments (Medford, OR), Cycle Oregon or Oregon Community Foundation, Eugene

3. Introduction to Bike-Ped Portal
Why?
What is Bike-Ped Portal?
How to use it

4. Why?

5. How many bike and walk? Surveys Counts National Permanent Regional
Short duration
Local
Manual
Intercept
Automated
GPS
National Household Travel Survey
American Community Survey
Regional Travel Diaries
Source: Community Cycles

6. Why aggregate bicycle and pedestrian count data?
Performance metrics, safety

7. Non-motorized Traffic Data
Local Agency
State DOT
Local Agency
Researchers
Local Agency
Local Agency
State DOT
Regional Agency
National
Archive

8. Non-motorized Traffic Data
Local Agency
State DOT
Local Agency
Researchers
Local Agency
Local Agency
State DOT
Regional Agency
National
Archive

9. Local Agency
National Data
State DOT
Local Agency
Researchers
Local Agency
Aggregated Data
Performance Metrics
AADB
Regional Data
Local Agency
State DOT
Regional Agency
National
Archive

10. Non-motorized Traffic Data
Local Agency
State DOT
Local Agency
Researchers
Local Agency
Local Agency
State DOT
Regional Agency
National
Archive

11. What is Bike-Ped Portal?

12. Bike/Ped Portal Download Upload Storage Data Visualization
Data Checking
(QA/QC)

13. Bike-Ped Portal Online database bp.its.pdx.edu
5 million records loaded for 5 states
Upload/download data
Mention that we’re working on a TRB paper

14. Uploaded Data 5 states 12 counties
343 road or path segments (including 278 in Oregon)
355 detectors (both human and machine)
38 million people counted

15. Facility Types

16. How to use it

17. bp.its.pdx.edu

18. Search

24. Data Download

25. Hawthorne Bridge
Weekend
Weekday

26. Annual Average Daily Bicyclists (AADB)

27. Manual Count Data

28. Comparing Automated to Manual
< 5% error

29. Pedestrian
Data

30. Compare Bicycle & Pedestrian Data
205 peds, 1522 bikes in 2 hrs
12% of non-motorized traffic is walking at peak hour on south sidewalk

31. Other
Bridges

32. Bend 18
Source: GoogleMaps

33. Other
Bridges

35. AADB Comparison
Source: David Patton

36. Next Steps

37. Phase II: Add “Explore Data” Page
Open to anyone
Password protected
Home Page
Create Segment Area
Create Facility
Explore Data Page
Create Flow
Create Detector
About Page
Add Data Page
(User Dashboard)
Create Flow- Detector
Upload Data

38. Questions? To get involved contact Krista Nordback Nordback@pdx.edu
bp.its.pdx.edu
bp-demo.its.pdx.edu

39. Extra Slides

40. Hawthorne Bridge

41. Change over time
20% decrease in Hawthorne bicycle counts after Tilikum Crossing opened (700/day)

42. Many Formats
More diverse than motorized data

43. Bike-Ped Portal Data Format