Join us for our quarterly information session, Conversations with Colleagues! The Conversations with Colleagues discussion series has three goals:
Share challenges faced by bicycle and pedestrian data “wranglers”
Identify needs for workshops and research on bicycle and pedestrian traffic monitoring
Build the community of practitioners and researchers advancing the field
The format is intended to promote dialogue and share knowledge among practitioners through informal discussions around a general topic. Typically, each session has more time devoted to discussion than to presentations.
These meetings take place every quarter on the second or third Tuesday of the month, around 2 PM EST.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 - 2:00 PM ET/11:00 AM PT
Shared bike and bus platforms have been deployed in an effort to minimize conflicts between bicycles and buses (and other motor vehicles) on streets with bike lanes and bus transit service. In this presentation, we assess bicycle/micromobility user and pedestrian behavior in shared bicycle and transit platforms along a bus rapid transit corridor in Portland, OR, focusing specifically on the data collected and the methodologies for classifying behaviors. Research objectives include understanding interactions between these users and potential conflicts between people on foot (or wheelchair/mobility devices) who are waiting for, boarding, and/or alighting a bus, and people on bicycles riding in the bike lane. The research also assessed how well the shared transit platforms are working for the visually impaired. The mixed methods approach included video observation of eight platforms, intercept surveys of transit riders, and interviews of riders experiencing disabilities.
Nathan McNeil, Portland State University
Sirisha Kothuri, Portland State University
The committee's long-term goals are to disseminate recent research and to increase funding for new research to foster use of bicycle and pedestrian data. As always, if there is a particular discussion that you are interested in having during these sessions, please let us know.
You can see recordings of past conversations with colleagues here.