Webinar: Emerging Technologies for Bike/Ped Planning
The Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (APBP) webinars take place on the third Wednesday of each month from 2:00 to 3:00 PM CST.
Green Action Centre and Bike to the Future invite you to join us for this webinar. We usually follow up with a short discussion. RSVPs not required but welcomed.
Through a series of short presentations, this webinar will survey several applications with the potential to help engineers and planners improve conditions for bicycling and walking. The examples covered in this session will offer an overview of a range of situations where technological advances can aid professionals in their work to develop plans and programs. Due to the number of examples, attendees should plan to be in the webinar for 75 minutes.
The session will include:
- An overview of the newest web and mobile apps and devices, with suggestions for their application to the 5 Es.
- A description of Cycloplan, an application in development at the University of Minnesota that will leverage data collected in the geo-wiki Cyclopath to create a tool for analyzing cycling networks and managing bikeways.
- An example from St. Louis' new Gateway Bike Plan of using technology to engage the public and help build a new regional bicycle master plan.
- Information about GPS-enabled data collection equipment used for pedestrian access inventories, plus pedestrian access shed analysis methodology.
Presenters are James Andrew, Senior Transportation Planner, Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul; Terra Curtis, MCRP candidate, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; RJ Eldridge, Director of Planning, Toole Design Group; and Julie Padberg-White, Principal, FPA Group.
