[TRBHealth] FYI - NaTMEC: Emerging Equipment, Technologies and Capabilities to Address Travel Monitoring Basics and Beyond

FYI NaTMEC: Emerging Equipment, Technologies and Capabilities to Address Travel Monitoring Basics and Beyond This webinar is being presented as part of a series partnership with the National Travel Monitoring Exposition and Conference<https://www.natmec.org/>g/>, or NaTMEC. NaTMEC was created to provide travel monitoring professionals and transportation data users from around the world opportunities to share knowledge and good practices, exchange ideas, revisit fundamental concepts, learn new processes, procedures and techniques, and see the latest advancements in policy, technology, and equipment. In lieu of an in-person conference in 2020, NaTMEC is moving to a virtual format to be held June 21-25, 2021. Check natmec-dot-org for more information as it becomes available. https://www.pathlms.com/ite/courses/30606 Webinar Description: Jurisdictions often rely on observed counts as data sources for bicyclist or pedestrian volume collected either manually over short durations of by automation for longer-term counts. Models are then developed from these observational data at limited set of locations to extrapolate network-wide conditions. Newer sources of pedestrian and bicyclist activity data have emerged from GPS-based apps (Strava, Ride Report, Map My Ride and others), GPS-enabled bike and scooter sharing systems, aggregators that use these passively-crowdsourced data (i.e. StreetLight), and machine vision counts from signalized intersection control systems. These emerging data sources have advantages and disadvantages to consider when complementing traditional count data.