Bicycle and Pedestrian Count Program FHWA Certification of Statewide Planning Process July 21, 2015...

Bicycle and Pedestrian Count

ProgramFHWA Certification of Statewide Planning Process

July 21, 2015

Celebrating 100 Years of Innovation, Mobility and Economic Development

Purpose FDOT to establish a Statewide Bicycle and

Pedestrian Count Program to Assess bicycle and pedestrian use in Florida in

terms of number of people walking and bicycling at a given location on our road network system

Better understand the extent and severity of bicycle and pedestrian crashes

Comply with Map 21’s performance based planningMeasuring Performance of non-motorized

system

How Partnership – TranStat, Safety, Traffic Ops, Design, TPP

Literature Review

FHWA Traffic Monitoring Guide - Chapter 4

Recent NCHRP Reports

Partnering with MPO and Local Entities

Engage with pedestrian- bicycle communities

Coordinate with FHWA Count Pilot Assistance Project Palm Beach County

Metroplan Orlando

Miami-Dade MPO

Create a Bike-Ped Database for internal/external use

Task Work Order

Next Steps

Develop a Task Work Oder that provides Program Goals and Objectives through Stakeholder Engagement

Technology recommendations

Location recommendations

Frequency of count recommendations

Partnering recommendations

Coordination with Safety Data recommendation

Bike-Ped Count Database Recommendation

Recommendations for FDOT for a statewide bike-ped count program

Coordination with MAP21 & FDOT performance measures

Thank Youchris.francis@dot.state.fl.us

850-414-4929