Thursday, May 16th, 2024
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Guest Speaker
MIT, Director of City Form Lab
Presentation Title
Foot-traffic in New York: a model of pedestrian volumes on the city’s sidewalk network
Abstract
As city governments continue to promote active mobility to reduce carbon emissions associated with the transportation sector, data and models for representing foot-traffic distribution are needed. We present a first city-wide pedestrian network dataset for all of NYC and use it to construct a model of pedestrian flows between different land use pairs to describe both the distribution of specific trip types, and the combined foot-traffic volumes on all segments in New York City for AM, lunch and PM peak periods. We calibrate the model with observed 2018-2019 pedestrian counts collected from over a thousand locations on weekdays and over 450 locations on weekends. Our model explains pedestrian volumes at counted locations with over 90% accuracy and extends foot-traffic estimates to all pedestrian segments in the city. Estimated pedestrian volumes can inform public investments into the pedestrian realm and constitute a denominator for pedestrian-related hazard data, such as automobile crashes.
Registration Required
Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuc-qrqDwrHdFV4HCWjw7sKfe5UVDhq26W for in-person or remote Zoom attendance.
Location Details
In-person location:
Arup New York office, 77 Water Street, New York, NY 10005
(please bring photo ID for building access)
For more information please contact danielle.hartman@arup.com or gismonyc@gmail.com.