1. UW Bike Parking & Storage Chantal Huynh Rathana San Ryan Patton Geography 469: GIS Workshop

2. Project Information UW Commuter Services Project Project Partner: David Amiton Project Partner: David Amiton Inventory all campus bike racks and lockers Inventory all campus bike racks and lockers Add GPS to inventory process Project Partner: Cesar Escobar from UW Facility Services Project Partner: Cesar Escobar from UW Facility Services Use GPS to collect relative locations of racks and lockers Use GPS to collect relative locations of racks and lockers

3. Project Goals Conduct an inventory of all bike racks and lockers on the UW campus Use GPS technologies to get relative locations of racks and lockers Identify areas of high utilization

4. Need to Know Questions How many bike racks/lockers are available on campus? Where are the bike racks/lockers located? How many bike racks/lockers are being used? What are the characteristics of the bike racks/lockers? What types of information products can be created to address the partners concerns? How can they be used?

5. Project Methods: Data Previous bike inventory data- UWCS CAD file of campus buildings-UW Engineering Campus roads-UW Engineering Campus Parking lots-UW Engineering Campus orthophoto- UWCS

6. Project Methods: Software ArcGIS ArcCatalog: Database creation ArcCatalog: Database creation ArcGIS: Data Analysis ArcGIS: Data Analysis GPS Pathfinder Trimble Software Trimble Software GeoMobile Results Used on Tablet Used on Tablet

7. Project Methods: Hardware Trimble GeoXH Carbon Fiber Staff or Tripod Carbon Fiber Staff or Tripod Hurricane or Zephyr Antenna Hurricane or Zephyr Antenna LaserCraft Contour Rangerfinder LaserCraft Contour Rangerfinder Trimble laser Tablet PC Desktop PC UW Server

8. Project Methods: Data Collection and Manipulation

9. Project Methods: Analysis Process Reclassify into three classes Low, median, high Low, median, high Select by Attributes: Utilization >.50.75 (high)

10. Project Results: Median Utilization Map

11. Project Results: High Utilization Map

12. Project Results: Reclassified Map

13. Project Results: Web Portal http://assetmapper.fs.washington.edu/am/ http://assetmapper.fs.washington.edu/am

14. Conclusions Optimally, all racks would have moderate utilization numbers, and there wouldn’t be too many cases of over-utilization Racks in high traffic areas are over-used, racks in low traffic areas are rarely used This tells us two things: Some racks need to be added or repositioned Also, awareness needs to be increased through the Web Portal on the UWCS website

15. Recommendations For the UW campus, GPS may not be the best avenue to reach this project’s goals the high concentration of buildings on campus, along with PDOP, obstructed satellite coverage Led to skewed results Digitizing points, especially with the tablet PC, proved to be more time-efficient and accurate (in our case) than taking GPS readings Bigger team needed to cover campus in a timely manner

16. Recommendations: The Next Steps Network analysis of bike paths/routes on campus Efficient routes with nearby racks and lockers Bicyclists travel and storage patterns Analyze the use of racks and lockers for travel storage vs. overnight storage

17. Questions?