Innovation in Bicycle and Pedestrian Counts

March 1, 2016

By Sam Piper, Senior Designer and Kristen Maddox-O’Toole, Planner Every planner and engineer working on an active transportation project wishes they had better bicycle and pedestrian data. The ability to access more robust data helps communities: Determine where investments in walking and biking infrastructure are most needed Assess changes over time, draw conclusions about the […]

Counting Pedestrians… For the love of the numbers? Or is there something more?

July 2, 2014

by Melissa Miklus, Senior Designer, Alta Planning + Design There are many people out there who love numbers. In fact, it seems their love of percentages and statistics take over the true purpose of analysis to begin with. Some planning documents boast, “We surveyed 20 percent of the population, 50 percent of whom answered this […]