UW Bike Parking Storage Chantal Huynh Rathana San

UW Bike Parking & Storage Chantal Huynh Rathana San Ryan Patton Geography 469: GIS Workshop

Project Information UW Commuter Services Project n n Project Partner: David Amiton Inventory all campus bike racks and lockers Add GPS to inventory process n n Project Partner: Cesar Escobar from UW Facility Services Use GPS to collect relative locations of racks and lockers

Project Goals Conduct an inventory of all bike racks and lockers on the UW campus Use GPS technologies to get relative locations of racks and lockers Identify areas of high utilization

Need to Know Questions How many bike racks/lockers are available on campus? Where are the bike racks/lockers located? How many bike racks/lockers are being used? What are the characteristics of the bike racks/lockers? What types of information products can be created to address the partners concerns? How can they be used?

Project Methods: Data Previous bike inventory data- UWCS CAD file of campus buildings-UW Engineering Campus roads-UW Engineering Campus Parking lots-UW Engineering Campus orthophoto- UWCS

Project Methods: Software Arc. GIS n n Arc. Catalog: Database creation Arc. GIS: Data Analysis GPS Pathfinder n Trimble Software Geo. Mobile Results n Used on Tablet

Project Methods: Hardware Trimble Geo. XH n n n Carbon Fiber Staff or Tripod Hurricane or Zephyr Antenna Laser. Craft Contour Rangerfinder Trimble laser Tablet PC Desktop PC UW Server

Project Methods: Data Collection and Manipulation

Project Methods: Analysis Process Reclassify into three classes n Low, median, high Select by Attributes: Utilization >. 50 <. 75 (median); Utilization >. 75 (high)

Project Results: Median Utilization Map

Project Results: High Utilization Map

Project Results: Reclassified Map

Project Results: Web Portal http: //assetmapper. fs. washington. edu/am/ http: //assetmapper. fs. washington. edu/am

Conclusions Optimally, all racks would have moderate utilization numbers, and there wouldn’t be too many cases of over-utilization Racks in high traffic areas are over-used, racks in low traffic areas are rarely used This tells us two things: n n Some racks need to be added or repositioned Also, awareness needs to be increased through the Web Portal on the UWCS website

Recommendations For the UW campus, GPS may not be the best avenue to reach this project’s goals n n the high concentration of buildings on campus, along with PDOP, obstructed satellite coverage Led to skewed results Digitizing points, especially with the tablet PC, proved to be more time-efficient and accurate (in our case) than taking GPS readings Bigger team needed to cover campus in a timely manner

Recommendations: The Next Steps Network analysis of bike paths/routes on campus n Efficient routes with nearby racks and lockers Bicyclists travel and storage patterns n Analyze the use of racks and lockers for travel storage vs. overnight storage

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