pedestrian/bicycle counting >> Pedestrians Count/Count Pedestrians Conference October 3-5, 2010

Pedestrians Count!: Data, Modeling, and Advocacy Workshop

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Welcome and Introductions Wendy Alfsen, California WALKS, Anne Geraghty, WALKSacramento, Councilmember Jess Arreguin, City of Berkeley

Opening Remarks Pat Minturn, Strategic Highway Safety Program, California Department of Transportation (Caltrans)

Building the Foundation: Pedestrian Data & Models 101 Barb Alberson, Moderator, California Department of Public Health

• Better Pedestrian Data = Healthier Communities Roger Trent, California Department of Public Health
• Statewide Pedestrian Data Task Force Holly Sisneros, California Department of Public Health
• California Pedestrian Safety Data: Current Status, Evaluation and Recommendations David Ragland, UC Berkeley, SafeTREC
• Smart Mobility, Smart Data Chris Ratekin, Caltrans

Breakout One: Quantifying Pedestrian Activity Moderator: Nancy McGuckin, Travel Behavior Associates

• San Francisco Manual and Automated Pedestrian Count Program Laura Stonehill, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA)
• Including Pedestrians in Trip Generation for Transportation Impact Analyses of Proposed Land Use Development Projects Terry Parker, Office of Community Planning, Caltrans
• Capturing All Pedestrian Travel in Shopping Trip Chains: Results from a Bay Area Intercept Survey Bob Schneider, UC Berkeley, SafeTREC
• New Insights into Pedestrian Travel from the California Add-on to the National Household Travel Survey Leonard Seitz, Caltrans

Breakout Two: Quantifying Pedestrian Health & Safety Moderator: Dahianna Lopez , UC San Francisco Injury Center Health

• Data, Equity & Policy Making Judi Larsen and George Flores, The California Endowment
• The Cost of Pedestrian Injuries Dahianna Lopez, UC San Francisco Injury Center
• Performance Indicators for Safety: Burden or Risk Rajiv Bhatia, San Francisco Department of Public Health
• Health in All Policies Task Force Linda Rudolph, California Department of Public Health

Breakout Three: Pedestrian Infrastructure and Safety Data Moderator: Jason Patton, City of Oakland

• Pedestrian Infrastructure Data Collection for the Berkeley Pedestrian Master Plan Eric Anderson, City of Berkeley
• Pedestrian Infrastructure/Safety Data in the California SWITRS Crash Database John Bigham, UC Berkeley SafeTREC
• South of Market NHTSA Pedestrian Infrastructure & Counts David Grant , San Francisco Walks & Rolls/BayWALKS
• Santa Cruz County Sidewalk Inventory Karena Pushnik, Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission (SCCRTC) and Veronica Elsea, Pedestrian Safety Work Group, Elderly & Disabled Transportation Advisory Committee, SCCRTC

Breakout Four: Health Impact Assessments - Local Examples and Future Funding Opportunities Moderator: Jeffery Rosenhall, California Department of Public Health

• Pedestrian Safety and Health Impact Assessment in Environmental Review in San Francisco Megan Wier, San Francisco Department of Public Health
• Collaborating with local youth to assess pedestrian conditions in East Palo Alto Jennifer Lucky, Human Impact Partners
• Health Impact Assessment as part of Humboldt County General Plan Update Jen Rice, Humboldt Partnership for Active Living

Where Pedestrians fit in Regional Transportation Modeling Moderator: David Grant, San Francisco Walks & Rolls/Bay WALKS

• Incorporating Pedestrian Activity into SACOG’s Blueprint Model Bruce Griesenbeck , Sacramento Area Council of Governments
• Pedestrian Travel as part of MTC’s Regional Demand Model David Ory, Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC)
• Planning Models, Pedestrian Activity, and the Region’s SB 375 Sustainable Community Strategy Ted Broettboom, Association of Bay Area Governments

Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP): Pedestrian Safety Data Moderator: Richard Haggstrom, Co Chair, SHSP Challenge 8 Committee

• Pedestrian Safety Data & Action on Rural Roads Tom Mattson, Humboldt County
• Inventory & Action on Upgrading marked Crossings Treatments on State Highways Roland Au-Yeung, Caltrans District 4
• Sidewalks and Curb Ramp Inventory & Implementation Progress Kevin Jensen, AIA & Kenneth Spielmann, PE
• What the Data Tell us About Pedestrian Safety & Speed? Roberta McLaughlin, Caltrans
• Operations Data & Pasadena’s Pedestrian Program Fred Dock, City of Pasadena DOT

Part Two: Pedestrian Analysis Methods (continued from Day One)

Breakout Five: GIS-Based Pedestrian Volume Models that Can Run from a Spreadsheet Moderator: Oliver Gajda, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency

• Alameda and San Francisco Counties Bob Schneider, UC Berkeley SafeTREC
• Santa Monica Matt Haynes, Fehr & Peers
• San Diego Jennifer Donlon and Michael Jones, Alta Planning & Design

Breakout Six: Pedestrian Behavior Analysis Moderator: Rochelle Wheeler, Bicycle Pedestrian Program, Alameda County Transportation Commission

• Safe Routes to School Analysis Techniques Jill Cooper, UC Berkeley SafeTREC
• Safe Routes to School Analysis Techniques Jessica Meaney, Safe Routes to School National Partnership

Pedestrians Count! Building Sustainable Communities

• Gregg Albright, Deputy Secretary for Environmental Policy & Integration, State of California Business, Transportation & Housing Agency
• Heather Fargo, Executive Director, California Strategic Growth Council and Former Mayor, City of Sacramento

Panel: Moving Pedestrian Data Forward Moderator: Bob Planthold, California Pedestrian Advisory Committee (CalPED)

This panel will discuss important issues for improving pedestrian data in the future. These issues include identifying data needs, increasing capacity to analyze the existing databases, merging different databases with important pedestrian data, improving data quality, addressing legal issues related to data sharing, and using data for advocacy and networking to push for evidence-based practice. Audience members are encouraged to ask questions and participate in the discussion.

Dahianna Lopez, UCSF San Francisco Injury Center
Bob Schneider, UC Berkeley SafeTREC
David Ragland, UC Berkeley, SafeTREC
Megan Wier, San Francisco Department of Public Health
Nancy McGuckin, Travel Behavior Associates

Vision Zero Rajiv Bhatia, San Francisco Department of Public Health

Visit the Pedestrians Count! Conference page on California Walks Web site.
Download the agenda as a PDF.

Program Sponsors: Alameda County Transportation Commission, California Department of Public Health, California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS), California WALKS, Caltrans, Fehr & Peers, National Safe Routes to School Partnership, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC), Strategic Highway Safety Program, Strategic Growth Council, UCSF Injury Center, Walk Sacramento