Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Data

Can a New Way to Measure Streets Help Advocates Tame Speeding?

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 29, 2015 | No Comments

You’ve heard of sensors that can count cars or bikes. Tools like that can help transportation planners make smarter decisions about where bike infrastructure is needed, for example. A new digital tool called Placemeter aims to measure streets at a much more fine-grained level, analyzing a variety of different aspects of movement in an urban environment. […]

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Census Data Shows How Much Less Millennials and Gen-Xers Commute by Car

By Adie Tomer and Joseph Kane | Oct 8, 2014 | No Comments

Cross-posted from Brookings’ The Avenue blog. This article is the second in a short series examining new Census data on transportation trends. Nationally, most commuters are still revving up their cars to get to work every morning, but the picture is more complicated when you look across different age groups. Based on the latest Census data from […]

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Talking Headways Podcast: A Deep Dive Into Biking and Walking Census Data

By Tanya Snyder | May 12, 2014 | No Comments

We were so excited about the first-ever Census report exclusively on biking and walking that we devoted this entire episode of the Talking Headways podcast to an interview with its author, Brian McKenzie. Bike commuting is up 60 percent since 2000, the Census shows, and people with low incomes are by far the biggest proportion […]