PEDESTRIAN & MULTI-MODAL COUNTS

From sidewalks and crosswalks to trails, bicycle facilities, campuses, and urban corridors, Imperial Traffic & Data Collection provides detailed information about how people move through the transportation network.

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Our multimodal counts help agencies and project teams plan safer crossings, connected bicycle and pedestrian facilities, Complete Streets improvements, and more accessible transportation systems.

 

What we can collect

• Pedestrian volumes

• Bicycle volumes

• E-scooters and other micromobility activity

• Crosswalk movements

• Sidewalk and pathway activity

• Direction of travel

• Roadway versus sidewalk or crosswalk use

• Marked and unmarked crossing activity

• Intersection approach and crossing movements

• On-road bicycle and micromobility volumes

• Custom project-specific classifications

• Vehicular traffic alongside multimodal activity

• Speed and roadway volume data at crossing locations

 

Collection environments

• Signalized and unsignalized intersections

• Mid-block crosswalks

• Sidewalks and shared-use paths

• Trails and greenways

• Bicycle lanes and roadway shoulders

• Transit corridors and station areas

• School and university campuses

• Downtown and commercial districts

• Parks and recreational facilities

• Complete Streets corridors

 

Flexible study design

ITDC develops each multimodal data collection program around the project’s location, purpose, travel patterns, and reporting requirements. Counts can be conducted during weekday and weekend periods, school arrival and dismissal, commuter peaks, special events, recreational peak periods, or over multiple consecutive days.

 

Collection methods

Targeted pathway and crosswalk counts - Video collection units can document pedestrian, bicycle, and micromobility activity by direction of travel along sidewalks, trails, bicycle facilities, and marked or unmarked crossings.

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Multimodal turning-movement counts - Intersection counts can combine vehicular movements with pedestrian, bicycle, transit, and micromobility activity. Data can be reported in 15-minute intervals and coordinated with the study’s vehicle-classification requirements.

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Video-based roadway counts - Video ATR studies can document bicycles, e-scooters, and other custom roadway classifications by direction or lane while also providing vehicular traffic volumes.

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Supporting roadway and speed data - Multimodal counts can be coordinated with radar or pneumatic ATR studies to document roadway volumes, vehicle classifications, and speed conditions at crossing or pathway locations.

 

Information we can report

• 15-minute and hourly volumes

• Directional pedestrian and bicycle activity

• Crosswalk activity by direction

• Sidewalk or pathway activity by direction

• Roadway bicycle and micromobility activity

• Peak pedestrian and bicycle periods

• Weekday and weekend comparisons

• Vehicle volumes and classifications

• Vehicle speed distributions

• Custom reporting intervals

• Custom modal classifications

 

Quality assurance

Each location is reviewed before deployment to determine the appropriate camera placement, recording period, and field configuration. During installation, ITDC verifies the count location, camera view, recording settings, equipment status, battery life, and storage capacity. Video is reviewed for completeness, and processed data is checked for correct directionality, classification, reporting intervals, and overall reasonableness before delivery.

 

Deliverables

• Data compilation report for each location

• Pedestrian, bicycle, and micromobility summaries

• Directional and crossing-movement reports

• PDF and Excel deliverables

• Custom client or agency reporting formats

• Miovision DataLink access, when applicable

• Intersection or pathway video

• Raw video footage, when requested

• Safety plan and QA/QC procedures, when required

• Supporting traffic volume, classification, or speed reports

 

Common applications

• Complete Streets planning and design

• Bicycle and pedestrian master plans

• Trail and shared-use-path studies

• Mid-block crossing evaluations

• Pedestrian safety studies

• School and campus mobility studies

• Transit-access studies

• Vision Zero and Safe Streets programs

• Local road safety plans

• Grant applications and funding documentation

• Before-and-after improvement studies

• Multimodal traffic-impact studies

• Corridor and intersection design

 

Optional services

• Custom micromobility classifications

• Separate roadway and crosswalk classifications

• Weekday and weekend collection

• Extended-duration monitoring

• Supplemental vehicle volume and speed data

• Premium vehicle classification

• 24- or 48-hour rush processing

• Raw video delivery

• Flash-drive or hard-drive delivery

• Additional analysis using previously collected video

 

Planning a pedestrian, bicycle, or multimodal study?

Send us your locations, preferred collection periods, and the modes or movements you need documented. ITDC will help develop a practical data collection program tailored to your project.