The North American Travel Monitoring Exposition and Conference (NATMEC) is tentatively scheduled for June of 2014. As more information becomes available it will be posted here. Check back soon for more information.
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Here is a list of bike/ped events that will occur at NATMEC this year:
PLANNING COMMITTEE TEAMS AND TRACK SUMMARIES
Traffic Data Collection Equipment Performance and Capabilities
Scott Brady, Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission; Benjamin Timerson, Minnesota Department of Transportation; Randy Travis, Nevada Department of Transportation
• Bicycle and Pedestrian Detection Technologies Used for Counting and Collecting Trip Attributes (Tuesday 2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.)
• Bicycle and Pedestrian Detection (Tuesday 4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.)
Performance Measures and Reporting Results to Stakeholders
Mena Lockwood, Virginia Department of Transportation; Daniel Jenkins, Federal Highway Administration; Todd Schmidt, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning; Eileen Singleton, Baltimore Metropolitan Council
• Bicycle and Pedestrian Data Collection (Tuesday 8:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m.)
Policy, Management, Administration, Funding, and Federal Requirements
Natalie Bettger, North Central Texas Council of Governments; Edward Christopher, Federal Highway Administration Resource Center; William E. Knowles, Texas Department of Transportation; Nancy Lefler, Vanasse, Hangen, Brustlin, Inc.
• Creating Bicycle and Pedestrian Programs and Policies (Tuesday 10:30 a.m.–noon)
ADVANCE WORKSHOPS
(Open to all registrants; advance registration required. Subject to capacity limits.)
Sunday, June 29
1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m
Accuracy and Implementation of Pedestrian and Bicycle Counting Technologies: Lessons from NCHRP 07-19 Workshop
Kelly Laustsen, Kittelson and Associates; Tony Hull, Toole Design Group; Robert J. Schneider, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Frank Roland Proulx, University of California, Berkeley, presiding
This workshop will present the practitioner’s guidebook produced by National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Project 07-19, which provides insights into establishing or growing bicycle and pedestrian counting programs. The background research comprised tests of six classes of automated counting devices under various operating conditions. This workshop will focus on the relative advantages and disadvantages of the tested sensor technologies and on methods of adjusting automated volume data to correct for systematic errors.
COMMITTEE MEETINGS
Sunday, June 29
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
TRB Bicycle and Pedestrian Data Subcommittee [ABJ35(3)]
Elizabeth Stolz, Sprinkle Consulting, Inc.; Scott Brady, Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, Presiding
*See the side bar for a link to the agenda*
SESSIONS
Sunday, June 29
5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Poster Session: Policy, Management, Administration, Funding, and Federal Requirements
Natalie Bettger, North Central Texas Council of Governments, presiding
A Data-Driven Approach to Modeling Work and Recreational Bicycle Trips in Los Angeles County (Monique Stinson Urban, Feng Liu, and Michael Snavely, Cambridge Systematics, Inc.)
Selecting Permanent Count Locations for Bicyclist Monitoring in Winnipeg, Canada (Adam Richard Budowski and Jeannette Montufar, University of Manitoba, Canada)
Tuesday, July 1
8:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m.
Pedestrian and Bicycle Data Collection (Performance Measures)
With bike use growing, bike-sharing systems popping up across the United States, and new technologies to collect data, agencies increasingly are becoming familiar with effective methods to collect, analyze, and use pedestrian and bicycle data. This session presents innovative ways to collect bike and pedestrian data and how to share that data widely to improve planning for bike share systems and other nonmotorized facility improvements.
Performance-Based Planning and Analysis for Bicycle Share Systems (Jacob Mason, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy; Colin K. Hughes, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, China)
Creating the Bicycle Count Data Clearinghouse for Los Angeles County, California (Kristen Huff and Madeline Brozen, University of California, Los Angeles)
Cycle Atlanta: Facilitating GPS-Based Data Collection for Bicyclists in Atlanta (Aditi Misra, Kari Edison Watkins, and Christopher A. Le Dantec, Georgia Institute of Technology)
Mining Pedestrian Push Button Actuations: Validations, Trends, and Performance Measurement at Signalized Intersections (Sirisha Murthy Kothuri, Christopher M. Monsere, and Miguel Figliozzi, Portland State University)
10:30 a.m.–noon
Creating Bicycle and Pedestrian Programs and Policies (Policy and Management)
Bicycle and pedestrian data collection play a critical role in programming and building multimodal transportation systems that provide options for all users. This session will discuss initiatives to plan, fund, and implement bike and pedestrian data collection programs and other resources that support these efforts.
Developing a Statewide Data Nonmotorized Collection Program: A North Carolina DOT Research Project (Elizabeth Stolz, Sprinkle Consulting Inc; Sarah Worth O’Brien, North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) Permanent Bicyclist and Pedestrian Counting Program (Christopher Linn, DVRPC)
2013 Chicagoland Bike Map (Paul Lippens and Marissa Dolin, Active Transportation Alliance)
Overview of Bicycle and Pedestrian Chapter of the Traffic Monitoring Guidebook (Shawn M. Turner, TTI)
2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Bicycle and Pedestrian Detection Technologies Used for Counting and Collecting Trip Attributes (Data Collection)
The growth of bicycle and pedestrian monitoring programs, together with travel behavior characteristics that complicate the transferring of traditional travel monitoring methods, have led to fertile ground for development of technology to address the need for better nonmotorized travel estimates. Presentations focus on technologies in use for bike and pedestrian detection as well as collecting a range of trip characteristics for nonmotorized travel.
Automatic Cycle and Pedestrian Monitoring in the United Kingdom (Andy Lees, TDC Systems Ltd.)
Monitoring Nonmotorized Traffic in Minnesota: The Minnesota Bicycle and Pedestrian Counting Initiative (Erik Minge, SRF Consulting Group, Inc.; Greg Lindsey, University of Minnesota; Lisa Austin, Minnesota DOT)
Opportunistic GPS Location and MAC Address Sensing for Pedestrian Data Collection (Yinhai Wang and Kristian Henrickson, University of Washington)
The Trail Monitoring and Assessment Platform (T-MAP) (Tracy Loh, Rails to Trails; Greg Lindsey, University of Minnesota)
4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
Bike and Pedestrian Detection (Data Collection)
Demand has increased for bicycle and pedestrian traffic counts on sidewalks, roadways, and bike trails. This session will cover several ways to collect these counts, including limiting factors based on cost and obstacles to accurate counts.
Unsupervised Framework for Pedestrian Detection and Counting (Evangelos Palinginis, Alice Grossman, and Randall Guensler, Georgia Institute of Technology)
Kinect-Based Pedestrian Detection for Crowded Scenes (Yinhai Wang and Kristian Henrickson, University of Washington; Xiaofeng Chen, Northwestern Polytechnical University)
Using Signal Controllers to Count Bicycles (Krista Nordback and Pamela Johnson, Portland State University; Peter J. V. Koonce, City of Portland, Oregon)
Bicycle and Pedestrian Data Subcommittee Meeting (ABJ35-3)
NATMEC Conference (In-Person), Chicago
Monday, June 30, 2014
5:30PM – 7:00PM (CST)
AGENDA
Administrative Items
2015 TRB Call for Papers……………………………………………………………Scott Brady
NATMEC Update……………………………………………………………………...Scott Brady
2015 TRB Workshop “Innovative Applications of Pedestrian and Bicycle Data”……………..Jamie Parks
Membership Update…………………………………………………………………Greg Griffin
Research Projects Update…………………………………………………..Krista Nordback
Special Project Presentations
Portland State University Data Archive Project ……………………Krista Nordback
Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission Application Viewer………..............………Scott Brady
National Park Service Travel Monitoring Program………………………………………………………..Shawn Turner
Continuous & Short Duration Site Selection Methods……………………………………………………………..Liz Stolz
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