Enhancing active transportation networks

According to the Kingston Transportation Master Plan, the existing active transportation mode share is 14 per cent (13 per cent walking and 1 per cent cycling). However, almost 40 per cent of residents live within 5 km of their work places. The City of Kingston has an ambitious goal of achieving 20 per cent active-transportation mode-share for peak travel times by 2034. We want student input on one of two active transportation-related challenges.

Choose one of the following:

• Design a ‘skeleton’ network of bicycle routes/lanes to be maintained year-round and cleared of snow to allow for an all-season cycling network in the City. In other words, identify an appropriate winter cycling network, connecting key areas, while understanding that the network needs to remain small enough that it can be cleared and maintained by busy City crews.
• Propose recommendations to prioritize pedestrian use of the Brock and King Street intersection. Equipped with 60 hours of video data, collision history, traffic counts and vehicle speed data, students will have the information needed to recommend a traffic-calming plan for the intersection.

Resources

Average annual traffic data for pedestrians, cyclists and automobiles can be requested for any intersection in the city (if a count has already been completed at the intersection in question).

Existing and proposed cycling facilities - note that this draft network is still subject to change which could include changes to facility types, facility locations and phasing. The date of development for this draft network mapping was Oct 10th, 2017.

A report on the Brock and King street intersection along with supplemental data:

• Brock St & King St. E Video-Based Conflict Analysis report
• Left-turning camera 1 data
• Left-turning camera 2 data
• Right-turning camera data

Datasets

Kingston Open Data Catalogue

Real-time transit data can be found at the links below:

• Vehicle positions - http://kingston.metrolinx.tmix.se/gtfs-realtime/vehicleupdates.pb
• Trip updates - http://kingston.metrolinx.tmix.se/gtfs-realtime/tripupdates.pb
• Service alerts - http://kingston.metrolinx.tmix.se/gtfs-realtime/alerts.pb

Curious how to get started with some of this data? Check out our software page for how-tos and guides.