Vermont Bike and Pedestrian Count Data Portal
Traffic counts help us better understand spatial relationships and temporal trends in travel activity. In the last decade, many of Vermont's transportation planning agencies, along with VTrans, have started counting bicyclists and pedestrians. Vermont is now a leader in the field, with several different agencies and the University of Vermont all active in counting non-motorized travel. This tool provides access to all of Vermont's non-motorized activity count data, dating back as far as 2006, taken directly from a database of counts from various sources, that is updated regularly. The most recent counts included are from July 2016.
- The tool includes a number of useful features for viewing and accessing data. Count locations are indicated by colored circles on the map, showing their approximate locations in yellow for areas with more than 10 sites, and green for areas with less than 10 sites. The map can be re-scaled using the +/- buttons in the upper left, or zoomed with a double-click. Upon zooming in on a set of locations, individual sites become more distinct. The background imagery can be toggled between a street map, a terrain map, or aerial imagery with the radio buttons at the upper right. Also on the upper right, the user can choose to hide or display the RPC boundaries, and the count locations themselves.
- Once zoomed in, a green bicycle symbol
will indicate the location of a specific site. Clicking on the symbol brings up the details of the site, including the Site ID, the RPC and Town where the site is located, the Location and Counter Types, and the ADT (average daily traffic, or the average of any full calendar days of counts), PHT (peak-hour traffic, or the highest count in a single 60-minute period, or 4 consecutive 15-minute periods, at this location), PDT (peak daily traffic, or the highest count in 24 consecutive 60-minute periods at this location), and Duration (total hours of counts at this location). The Site View is an image of the site from Google StreetView (if available), or from Google Maps. This image is an actual link to the Google view, so it will update automatically as Google's imagery is updated. - Three additional tools are available to supplement count analyses. First, the "Measure" tool at the bottom left calls up a link to "Create new measurement" when it is hovered over. Clicking on the link allows the user to set points on the map. As the pints are set, information on the coordinates of the points, and the distances and/or areas between the points , is provided. Second, a "PHT Averager" can be selected in the "Tools" dropdown in the top menu. Making this selection translates the view to a tool which displays the average PHT at a set of proximate sites by dragging the bicycle symbol and its buffer over the set of sites. Return to the standard view by selecting "Back to Main Mapper" at the top. Finally, for additional analyses, the data itself can be downloaded to an Excel file by clicking on the "Download" dropdown on the top menu, then selecting either the Site Data only, or all Raw Data.
- A link to the Data Entry Portal, a website developed in LimeSurvey for contributing new data to the statewide database, can be found in the "Tools" dropdown in the top menu.
The data provided on this site is for informational and planning purposes only.
Absolutely no accuracy or completeness guarantee is implied or intended.
UVM Transportation Research Center
(802) 656-1312
transctr@uvm.edu
Jon Kaplan, VTrans Bicycle and Pedestrian Program Manager
(802) 828-0059
Jon.Kaplan@vermont.gov
Developed by: URSUS, LLC
- The data mapper uses the following: Bootleaf an application template coded by Bryan McBride and code snippets developed by Ricardo Oliveira using Turf.