Statistical Support for the Development of the District 12 Active Transportation Census Program
– Alex Skabardonis, Principal Investigator
About this Project
The California Department of Transport (Caltrans) District 12 proposes to develop a statistically robust bicycle and pedestrian census network to elucidate active transportation volumes, travel patterns, and temporal trends. The census network will be paired with a big data platform to allow estimation of volumes on all roads/trails across the entire District for the first time. The census network design will be optimized to maximize information utility and minimize cost. The findings from this study will be integrated with the findings of the ongoing separate study in District 1 to recommend statistical methods and approach to design a statewide active transportation census network. The overall network design approach will be scalable to facilitate adoption by other Caltrans districts.
