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Volunteer to Help Collect Data on the Bicyclists and Pedestrians in Your Area!
In collaboration with UC Berkeley Traffic Safety Center, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), and other Bay Area public agencies and advocacy groups, Alameda County Transportation Improvement Authority (ACTIA) is implementing a new annual program to count the number of pedestrians and bicyclists throughout the Bay Area.
The information gathered from the counting program will be used to create baseline data on walking and biking trends; to offer quantifiable data on installed bike lanes, trails and sidewalks; and to help monitor the risk to bicyclist and pedestrian safety at various locations.
Informal observations suggest that the numbers of bicyclists and pedestrians have been growing throughout Alameda County and the rest of the Bay Area for several years. But unlike cars and transit-riders which have been counted regularly in the past, there have been few systematic counts of people walking and bicycling.
The trained volunteers will initially be asked to do counts in Alameda County in April and May 2009, but volunteers will also be needed in the following months to count throughout the Bay Area. Since the method of counting will be the same for every location, volunteers completing the training in Alameda County will be able to conduct counts anywhere in the Bay Area. The training will take place in downtown Oakland and will be conducted by the UC Berkeley Traffic Safety Center. Actual counts will be conducted on weekday afternoons as well as Saturdays.
If you are interested in finding out more about this counting program and the training, please come to an orientation on Wednesday, April 8th from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the ACTIA Conference Room, 3rd Floor, 1333 Broadway in Downtown Oakland. The field training will be held on Wednesday, April 15th from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., location to be announced. At the training sessions volunteers will be given the opportunity to state a preference of location. Attendance at both sessions is strongly encouraged.
For more information about the training, please contact: Lindsay Arnold (larnold@berkeley.edu) or Robert Schneider (rschneider@berkeley.edu).
Optional: RSVP now to Lindsay Arnold (larnold@berkeley.edu), and provide some information about yourself:
Name:
Email:
Phone:
Cities/Locations in which you'd be interested in counting:
Thanks for helping to improve pedestrian and bicycle data collection in the Bay Area!
