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.