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TRB Nonmotorized
TransportationPilot Program
Workshop
Planning Session:NTPP Overview
William M. Lyons
January 11, 2009
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Presentations: NTPP Overviews
Planning (Session B)1. Goals of Program
2. Challenges
3. Collaborative Approach4. Program Evaluation
5. Community-level vs. Project Evaluation
Policy (Session C)
1. Congressional reporting requirements2. Policy questions: NTPP focus
3. Challenges: NTPP and Nonmotorized in general
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Nonmotorized Pilot Program
Established under Section 1807, SAFETEA-LU
to demonstrate the extentbicycling and
walking can carry a significant portion of the
transportation load and represent a majorportion of the transportation solution.
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Nonmotorized Pilot Program
Section 1807 calls for the Secretary to:
Develop statistical information on travel
behavior changes
Assess how changes:
Decrease congestion and energy use
Increase frequency in walking and bicycling
Promote better health and cleaner environment.
Report to Congress in 2007 and 2010
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Data Required On Motor vehicle usage
Nonmotorized transportation
usage
Public transportation usage Congestion
Energy usage
Frequency: bicycling & walking
Connectivity to community
activity centers Health, and
Environment
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Evaluation Challenges (1)
No program funds for evaluation
FHWA STEP funds + Pilots pooled resources
Broad range of projects: Infrastructure and Non-infrastructure
Short time horizon
Projects dispersed over large study areas. Need for control communities (i.e., role of gas prices)
Difficulty establishing causality
Sample size and confidence intervals
How much effort to identify small changes of small mode share?
Whats feasible for NTPP (and NM in general)?
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Evaluation Challenges (2)
Reliance on avoided VMT for community mode shift Utilitarian vs. recreation
Issue of car ownership
Importance of linked trips
Need to view NM effects within multimodal system
Gold standard trip: Marin gap project => Golden Gate ferry trip to Muni light rail
2 or 100 avoided VMT
Need linked trips NM and transit
Need for tools to evolve: Models, performance measures, external data, counters
Whats feasible for NTPP (and NM in general)?
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NTPP: Cumulative Project Length by Mode and YearCumulative Project Length by Mode for Each Year
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100
150
200
250
300
350
400
450
2008 2009 2010
Miles
Ped
Both
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NTPP: Projects by Project TypePercent of Number of Projects by Project Type
Service
1%
Education
2%Planning
7%
Planning and
Outreach
1%
Outreach and
Education
1%
Personal TravelMarketing
1%
Bike
Parking
3%
Outreach
13%
Infrastructure on-street
41%
Infrastructure off-street
20%
Infrastructure on-street
and off street
8%
Infrastructureand Outreach
2%
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What else can we learn?
Collaborative approach: focused and practical
Working Group: Pilots, FHWA, Rails to Trails,
Volpe Center, CDC
Practical additional focus Narrowing broad goals
Environment: Carbon Dioxide emission reductions
Health: Physical activity
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Reporting on the NTPP
Themes of national interest Improving safe access;
Improving health/physicalactivity;
Working with land use policy
and transportation planningprocesses;
Leveraging resources;
Improving connections toother modes as part ofoverall system; emphasis on
transit; Climate Change; and
Raising public awareness.
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Plans for a Project Focus
By Pilots Coordination from Volpe & Working Group
Evaluate selected projects (5+) Innovative, early completion, practical data collection
Multiple applications across communities, e.g.,
Travel Marketing, Bike Boulevards, Bike Sharing, Safe Routes toSchool
CDC physical activity focus (3 + 1)
Baseline/2010 counts and other measures
Project database
Planning & Policy Profiles Role of nonmotorized in planning process
Participation with MPOs, city/counties, other partners
Institutionalized: mainstreamed and sustainable
Establish on-going data collection and evaluation
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Evaluation ActivitiesPHASE 1: BASELINE ASSESSMENT (UMN)
Function: Establish baseline mode split information at community levelin 4 pilots and control.Data collected late 2006/early 2007, reported in 2007.
NTPP
Results
Reported
in Final
Report
PHASE 2: PROJECT EVALUATIONS (Pilots & Volpe)
Function: Track use of nonmotorized facilities, or, participation in non-infrastructure activities atproject level in each community. Describe all projects. Track planning/policy climate atcommunity level. Data collected fall 2007 and 2010 (or annually).
PHASE 3: BOOKEND ASSESSMENT (UMN)
Function: Collect mode split information in all 4 pilots and control at community level. Datato be collected in 2010
PHASE 4: SYNTHESIS & ANALYSIS OF PHASES 1/3 (UMN)
Function: Compare Phase 3 data to Phase 1 data forcommunity leveloutcomes.
PHASE 5: COMMUNITY COUNTS/SURVEYS (Pilots & ALTA)
Function: Gather community- and project-level data. Data collected in 2007 and 2010(or annually starting in 2007).
OTHER (TBD)
Function: Gather anecdotal data, case studies, other NTPP information
COMPREHENSIVE SYNTHESIS AND ANALYSIS
Function: Review and integrate allNTPP evaluation data into comprehensive
report on outcomes and impacts.
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What Have We Reported?
Legislative and general
program information
Community-level profiles
Potential NTPP projects
Baseline mode split and
travel behavior
information
Lessons learned