County Sidewalk Inventory on NJDOT Website Brief

 

To help prioritize bicycle and pedestrian improvements along county roads, the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) has created a County Road Sidewalk Inventory webpage using sidewalk data collected through an image-based feature inventory. The data was collected between July 2006 and August 2007 for 13,200 miles of New Jersey’s 500, 600, 700 and two-digit series of county roads. This inventory will enable users to find which county roads have sidewalks, shoulders, bike paths, curb ramps, crosswalks, pedestrian signage or pedestrian-friendly signalized intersections.

 

Using NJDOT’s Standard Route Identification (SRI) Linear Reference System, the data and images collected for the sidewalk inventory are organized by route number in each county. The data is available for download from the NJDOT website in two file formats, ESRI Personal Geodatabase (.mdb) files and ESRI Shape file format.

 

Users with access to Environmental Systems Research Institute’s (ESRI) line of professional ArcGIS software should download the data stored in ESRI Personal Geodatabase (.mdb) files. To view the files, users will need one of ESRI’s ArcGIS suite of products, version 8.3 or later.

For users without ESRI ArcGIS software, the data is made available in the generic ESRI Shape file format. This data can be viewed using products such as ArcExplorer software that can be downloaded free from ESRI’s website.

 

To download the data or learn more about the information, visit the NJDOT’s County Road Sidewalk Inventory webpage at:

http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/

refdata/countysidewalks/

 

Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission's Bike Survey Results

 

In Fall 2005, the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) conducted one of the most extensive bicycle surveys in the nation to gather data on the characteristics of adult bicyclists and the trips they make, as well as their travel behavior, attitudes and desires. Called Biking in the Delaware Valley in 2005, this survey looked at bicycling throughout the Delaware Valley, including the metro Philadelphia region. This survey was the first of its kind done in the region and may be the largest ever conducted in the United States.

 

The survey drew a sample from the region’s estimated 133,000 daily bicycle trips and 1 million active bicyclists aged 16 and older. Data was collected by interviewing passing