Crowdsourcing Cyclist and Pedestrian Activity Data Webinar

Crowdsourcing tools and crowdsourced data are resources that can help planners understand travel behavior trends; inventory and assess the built environment; make modal and navigational recommendations; identify improvement opportunities; and forecast future needs and conditions. Spurred in large part by advances in social computing technologies, many crowdsourcing tools are emerging from efforts led by tech-savvy planners to find creative ways to engage communities and gather information. These new developments in data collection are being harnessed and integrated into planning projects focusing on facilitating mobility, managing resources, improving health and safety, and meeting other objectives of active transportation planning. This webinar will provide examples of how crowdsourcing applications and crowdsourced data are currently being applied, as well as potential new uses for active transportation research and planning efforts of various types.