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Title: How Do We Measure Up? Performance Measures for Active Transportation Track: Sustain Format: 90 minute moderated discussion Abstract: This interactive session will focus on performance measures for biking and walking investments by transportation agencies. Provide your feedback about which metrics would be most useful and about additional work needed to improve the available data for these metrics. Presenters: Presenter: Robbie Webber State Smart Transportation Initiative Co-Presenter: Lauren Blackburn North Carolina DOT Co-Presenter: John Lieswyn Alta Planning + Design Co-Presenter: Paula Reeves Washington State DOT Co-Presenter: John Paul Shaffer Livable MemphisTRANSCRIPT
Performance measures for non-
motorized transportation
September 9, 2014 Performance measures for non-motorized transportation
Draft report: bit.ly/sstiNMPM
• Executive-level
Community of
Practice
• Technical assistance
• Resource for the
transportation
community
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State Smart Transportation Initiative
Practical Solutions to Move America Forward A network of reform-oriented state DOTs, founded in 2010
and housed at the University of Wisconsin.
September 9, 2014 Performance measures for non-motorized transportation
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May 2013 Community of Practice
Program and notes:
http://bit.ly/TAP_meet
Webinar, May 22, 2013:
http://bit.ly/TAP_PM_webinar
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Performance measures under MAP-21
Rochester Friscocali / via Flickr
Akron Innerbelt Alps Roads
September 9, 2014 Performance measures for non-motorized transportation
Goal area National goal
Safety To achieve a significant reduction in traffic fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads
Infrastructure condition To maintain the highway infrastructure asset system in a state of good repair
Congestion reduction To achieve a significant reduction in congestion on the National Highway System
System reliability To improve the efficiency of the surface transportation system
Freight movement and economic vitality To improve the national freight network, strengthen the ability of rural communities to access national and international trade markets, and support regional economic development
Environmental sustainability To enhance the performance of the transportation system while protecting and enhancing the natural environment
Reduced project delivery delays To reduce project costs, promote jobs and the economy, and expedite the movement of people and goods by accelerating project completion through eliminating delays in the project development and delivery process, including reducing regulatory burdens and improving agencies’ work practices
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Traditional performance measures for DOTs
Rochester Friscocali / via Flickr
Akron Innerbelt Alps Roads
September 9, 2014 Performance measures for non-motorized transportation
Metrics for driver-based personal transportation
• Safety
• Congestion
• Travel time
• Roadway Level of Service
• Pavement condition and other maintenance metrics
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Outputs vs outcomes
Rochester Friscocali / via Flickr
Akron Innerbelt Alps Roads
September 9, 2014 Performance measures for non-motorized transportation
Photo: Elvert Barnes Photo: Dan Burden
Photo: Robbie Webber
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What can we use for biking and walking?
Rochester Friscocali / via Flickr
Akron Innerbelt Alps Roads
September 9, 2014 Performance measures for non-motorized transportation
Easier to measures
• Quantity of infrastructure
• Quality of infrastructure
• Accessibility
Photo: Laura Sandt
Photo: Michael King Photo: Dan Burden
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What can we use for biking and walking?
Rochester Friscocali / via Flickr
Akron Innerbelt Alps Roads
September 9, 2014 Performance measures for non-motorized transportation
Traditional, but harder to tie to invesstments
• Congestion
• Air Quality
• Safety
• Modal Shift
Photo: The Alliance for Biking and Walking
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What can we use for biking and walking?
Rochester Friscocali / via Flickr
Akron Innerbelt Alps Roads
September 9, 2014 Performance measures for non-motorized transportation
Squishier, but important to the community
• Economic development
• Public health
• Quality of life
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Quantity of Infrastructure
Rochester Friscocali / via Flickr
Akron Innerbelt Alps Roads
September 9, 2014 Performance measures for non-motorized transportation
• Total miles of sidewalks, paths, or bike lanes
• Fraction of total roadway miles on arterial/major collector
routes that include bike facilities or are within 1/4 mile of
a mapped bike route
• Fraction of total roadway miles that include sidewalks
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Quality of infrastructure
Rochester Friscocali / via Flickr
Akron Innerbelt Alps Roads
September 9, 2014 Performance measures for non-motorized transportation
• Bicycle Level of Service
• Bicycle Compatibility Index
• Bicycle Level of Stress
• Pedestrian Environmental Quality Index
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Accessibility
Rochester Friscocali / via Flickr
Akron Innerbelt Alps Roads
September 9, 2014 Performance measures for non-motorized transportation
Walk Score/Bike Score
• Advantage: Low cost, easy to use.
• Benefit: Shows proximity to amenities, which is very
important
• Disadvantage: Does not show the quality of the walking
or biking experience. Does not distinguish between
quality of amenities
• More of a land use metric than transportation
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Modal shift
Rochester Friscocali / via Flickr
Akron Innerbelt Alps Roads
September 9, 2014 Performance measures for non-motorized transportation
Only trip to work data is widely available
Data often not fine-grained
Possibility that people are moving from transit to biking and
walking
• ACS
• Bike-ped counts
• Big Data – cell phone data
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Safety
Rochester Friscocali / via Flickr
Akron Innerbelt Alps Roads
September 9, 2014 Performance measures for non-motorized transportation
Widely-accepted transportation metric
How to measure?
• Bicyclist/pedestrian fatalities per million VMT
• Percentage of drivers exceeding posted speed limits by
> 5 mph
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Economic development
Rochester Friscocali / via Flickr
Akron Innerbelt Alps Roads
September 9, 2014 Performance measures for non-motorized transportation
Important to business community, neighborhood, and city
May be difficult to tie to specific project or program
• Portion of sales to customers arriving by foot or bike
• Total retail sales
• Property values
• Occupancy rates
• Rental prices
Photo: Heather Bowden
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Public health
Rochester Friscocali / via Flickr
Akron Innerbelt Alps Roads
September 9, 2014 Performance measures for non-motorized transportation
Public health agencies might already be collecting data
Most measures are long-term or difficult to tie to a specific
investment
• Obesity rates
• Asthma
• Diabetes
• Number of minutes of physical activity per day
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Air quality and congestion
Rochester Friscocali / via Flickr
Akron Innerbelt Alps Roads
September 9, 2014 Performance measures for non-motorized transportation
Pro:
• Transportation agencies are already measuring
Con:
• Hard to tie to bicycle and pedestrian programs.
• Induced demand
• Possibility that people are moving from transit to biking
and walking
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We want your feedback:
Draft document can be found at: http://bit.ly/sstiNMPM
• What performance measures are your transportation agency
using?
• What are the most important metrics for your state or
community?
• What data is important to your performance measures?
September 9, 2014 Performance measures for non-motorized transportation
Robbie Webber: 608-263-9984 [email protected]
www.ssti.us