Pilot Implementation of a Vehicle Occupancy Data Collection Program

This project implements two recommendations in the forthcoming report titled Development of Guidance for a Corridor Level Vehicle Occupancy Rate Data Collection Program (Project No. 118055). This project first extracts occupancies from crash data in the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) Richmond District as a case study, building a geographic information system (GIS)-based workflow and documenting the time required. The project then demonstrates how to remove potential crash bias. These two steps satisfy the recommendations of the forthcoming VTRC report. However, to show their potential value to VDOT, this project adds another deliverable: demonstrate the impact of using local occupancy rates on some decision of interest to planners, which in this case is proposed to be placement of a park and ride lot. This pilot project may be modified at the discretion of the project technical review panel.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $146142
• Contract Numbers:

  122189

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Virginia Transportation Research Council

  530 Edgemont Road
  Charlottesville, VA  United States  22903
• Managing Organizations:

  Virginia Transportation Research Council

  530 Edgemont Road
  Charlottesville, VA  United States  22903
• Performing Organizations:

  Virginia Transportation Research Council

  530 Edgemont Road
  Charlottesville, VA  United States  22903

  University of Virginia, Charlottesville

  Center for Transportation Studies
  P.O. Box 400742, Thornton Hall, D228
  Charlottesville, VA  United States  22903
• Principal Investigators:

  Miller, John

  Dougald, Lance

  Xu, Yiqing

• Start Date: 20220915
• Expected Completion Date: 20240331
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash data; Data collection; Geographic information systems; Pilot studies; Vehicle occupancy
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01853906
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Virginia Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: 122189
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Aug 4 2022 10:54AM