Pedestrian Demand Modeling Workshop, Sept. 12, 2017

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Pedestrian Demand Modeling Workshop, Sept. 12, 2017

Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) is holding their signature professional development conference at Smith Memorial Student Union at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon on Sept. 11-12. As a part of this conference, there will one day of workshops, including the one below on advancing pedestrian demand modeling. The target audience for this workshop is demand modeling practitioners, consultants, pedestrian planners and academics. See the TREC website for more information (http://trec.pdx.edu/summit/TCS). We hope to see you there.

Walk, don’t run? Advancing the state of the practice in pedestrian demand modeling Motivated by policy questions around climate change, health impacts, safety, and quality of life, there have been significant advances in the development and application of non-motorized demand modeling in the last ten years. This has been facilitated by the increasing availability of travel behavior data and detailed information on the quality of the pedestrian environment. This workshop will convene key researchers and practitioners to review these modeling improvements, discuss key challenges for bringing research to practice, and plan for the next phase of research and tool development.

Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss key challenges and opportunities in pedestrian modeling and overview the state of the practice
  • Identify data needs and opportunities to improve models
  • Learn how to determine the appropriate scale to represent pedestrian networks and other attributes
  • Forecast model data inputs, link model outputs to health impacts and safety, improve the sensitivity of tools
  • Identify and prioritize next steps to improve practice

Instructors:

  • Kelly Clifton, Portland State University
  • Joe Broach, Portland State University
  • Robert Schneider, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
  • Jaime Orrego, Portland State University
  • Patrick Singleton, Utah State University