List of Caltrans Sponsored Researchrelated to

Active Transportation

Active Transportation and Livable Communities Quarterly Meeting

21st May, 2015

Agenda

National Accessibility Evaluation – TPF Project

PlanWorks – SHRP2 Product

Research @ University Transportation Centers

National Accessibility Evaluation

• Transportation Pooled Fund (TPF) Project• Led by Minnesota DOT and UMN• Received a funding commitment for $1.2

million from various states (CA, FL, IA, MN, NC, WisDOT, FHWA), far exceeding the required commitment of $430k

• http://access.umn.edu/

National Accessibility Evaluation

• Calculates number of jobs accessible in 10 min, 20 min, 30 min– by road– by transit

• Better than EPA tool (smart location database)– Better resolution of data, CENSUS block level– Speed data using GPS, accounts for congestion– Transit data for all day

PlanWorks

• SHRP2 Product (FHWA + TRB + AASHTO)• Improves collaborative decision making in

transportation planning– Long Range Planning– Programming– Corridor Planning– Environmental Review

• Decision Guide + Assessments + Applications + Library

• https://fhwaapps.fhwa.dot.gov/planworks/Home

University Transportation Centers

• 35 University Transportation Centers (UTCs) per USDOT• 3 UTCs in California:

– National Center for Sustainable Transportation (NCST)• UC Davis, Georgia Tech, UC Riverside, USC, U. Vermont• Focus: Environmental Sustainability

– University of California Center on Economic Competitiveness in Transportation (UCCONNECT)• UC Berkeley, Cal Poly Pomona, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Riverside, UCSB• Focus: Safety

– Metropolitan Transportation University Transportation Center (METRANS)• USC, CSU Long Beach• Focus: Economic Competitiveness

• Completed research at Transportation Research Board website

UTC – UCCONNECT

• Bike Level of Comfort Study – Offer

• Bicycle Crash Risk: How Does it Vary? – Ligget

• Toward Accurate and Valid Estimates of Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Bikeway Projects – Matute

• What can a bike lane do? Performance metrics for proposed bicycle infrastructure – Walker

UTC – UCCONNECT

• Accessibility and Economic Development: How the Transportation Network Affects the Economic Performance of Regions – Taylor

• Bringing a Community Health Lens to Highway-to-Main Street Conversions through the Integration of Top-Down Expert Guidance and Bottom-Up Community Engagement – Cole

• SB-743: From LOS to VMT, VHT, and Beyond through Data Fusion: Application to Integrated Corridor Management – Bayen

UTC – UCCONNECT

• Promoting Peer-to-Peer Ridesharing Services as Transit System Feeders – Jayakrishnan

• Mobile Apps and Transportation: Exploring data metric potential and user response to multi-modal traveller information – Shaheen

• Coordinating Transit Transfers in Real Time – Daganzo

UTC – UCCONNECT

• Rail and the California Economy – Hansen

• Public Transportation and Industrial Location Patterns in California – Chatman

• Potential Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction from Optimizing Urban Transit Networks – Madanat

UTC – UCCONNECT

• UCCONNECT Speaker Series– Bike/Ped Volume Data Collection: Frank R Proulx and Offer

Grembek (SafeTREC) – NCHRP797 – New trends in Transportation and Land Use: Louise Mozingo

(Landscape Arch.)

• Speaker Series – Potential Topics– Transportation , Public Health, Environmental Justice– Caltrans Goal 3 Performance Measures: Accessibility,

Livability, Prosperity, Resiliency– Big Data– Resiliency and Vulnerability Planning, NCHRP 750

UTC – NCST

• The Role of Environmental Concerns, Lifestyles, Mobility-Related Attitudes and Peers' Influence in Affecting Travel Behavior and Aspirations Towards the Purchase of Private Vehicles of Young Adults in California – Giovanni Circella

• Bicyclist Behavior in San Francisco: A Before-and-After Study of the Impact of Infrastructure Investments – Susan Handy

• White Paper on Performance-based Approaches to Incentivize Local Adoption of Sustainable Land-Use Policies – Gian-Claudia Sciara

Questions?

Rahul Srivastava_______________________________________

Branch Chief, Planning Research CoordinationDivision of Transportation Planning

CALTRANS (HQ)rahul.srivastava@dot.ca.gov

916.651.6008

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