Comparison of Non-motorized and Motorized Traffic Patterns
Are motor vehicle traffic patterns similar to non-motorized traffic patterns at the same location? To investigate this question, motor vehicle traffic patterns were compared to non-motorized traffic patterns occurring along the same roadway, corridor, or in the vicinity of each other for four test cases in Colorado. This analysis found that motorized and non-motorized traffic are sometimes but not always correlated. The highest correlation was with monthly patterns, but motorized traffic varies much less with the seasons than non-motorized traffic. Even though some of the motorized and non-motorized count stations were on the same corridor, they did not necessarily share the same travel patterns, indicating that bicyclists and pedestrians are using the corridor for different trip purposes than motorized users.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABJ35(3) Bicycle and Pedestrian Data.
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Corporate Authors:
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Authors:
- Nordback, Krista
- Bahrami, Kowat
- Marshall, Wesley
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC
- Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
- Date: 2014
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 17p
- Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Motor vehicles; Nonmotorized transportation; Seasons; Transportation corridors; Travel patterns
- Geographic Terms: Colorado
- Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01506471
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 14-5711
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Feb 3 2014 3:38PM