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District
6 Data Collection Fund
In 2004, ITE District 6 created
a Data Collection Fund to encourage Student Chapter involvement with the profession.
This program is specifically aimed at creating interest in transportation through
practical activities and mentoring.
Purpose of Data
Collection Fund - Facilitate ITE Student Chapter
activity and student mentoring by transportation professionals (retired or active).
- To generate relevant technical data in the west for transportation
engineers and planners
- Focus on practical, day-to-day, minor
research in transportation engineering and planning. Samples could include trip
generation counts, parking generation surveys, truck generation counts, highway
capacity research data collection (saturation flows, freeway per lane flows, travel
time data, stop sign compliance, right turn on red), new start LRT ridership surveys
of previous mode, vehicle maneuvering characteristics in parking lots, before/after
data studies of: transportation projects, traffic calming measures, traffic signal
systems, ITS measures, pedestrian crossings, bicycle paths, transit stop measures,
etc…
- All efforts will focus on collection of basic
data. The activities shall not involve development of standards, manuals or recommendations.
While this collected data may be utilized by others to pursue these efforts, the
purpose of this program is only collection and presentation of data and the desire
to help generate additional research interest in these areas through initial data
collection.
- Expose students to typical project process utilized
in the profession (RFP, proposal, selection of top proposals, task development,
budgeting, teamwork, report writing, review process, presentations)
- Provision
of funds to ITE Student Chapters to offset costs of activities (such as attendance
at District 6 ITE Annual meetings)
Selection
Process
The District 6 Board allocates funds annually for this program
and a Request for Proposals is issued in the fall. Awards of Data Collection Fund
activities are made before the end of the calendar year by District 6. Data collection
projects can begin in the winter and must be completed by June 1 of the year.
Requirements are a brief abstract (1-3 page Word document) summarizing the data
collected and the actual data (typically in a spreadsheet).
2008
DATA FUND RFP
2007 Data Collection
Fund Reports - Portland State University –
Transit & Mode Split Study for Transit-Oriented Development; Report;
Process; Data
- University
of Nevada Reno (two grants) - Multiplex Theaters; Data
- Coffee store/kiosk Trip and Parking Generation; Data1;
Data2; TG
Forms
- University of Washington – Coffee store/kiosk
Trip and Parking Generation; TG Forms;
Data1; Data2
- Brigham
Young University – Small Office Trip and Parking Generation; TG
Forms; Data
2006
Data Collection Fund Reports - University
of Hawaii - Calibration of Capacity Parameters for Signalized Intersections in
Hawaii; Abstract; Data1;
Data2; Data3;
Data4; Data5
- Portland
State University – Saturation Flow Rates at Signalized Intersections with
High Pedestrian Volumes; Abstract;
Report
- California
State University – Sacramento. Parking Generation of Multiplex Theaters;
Data; Report
- Portland State University – Parking Generation
of Multiplex Theaters; Data;
Report
2005
Data Collection Fund Reports - University of Idaho;
Right-Turn-On-Red Field Data Collection; Summary;
Data
- Montana
State University; Trip Generation Characteristics of Drive Thru Coffee Stands;
Summary; Summary2;
Data
- Portland
State University; Establishing Pedestrian Walking Speeds; Summary;
Data
2004
Data Collection Fund Reports - University of California,
Davis; Bicycle Clearance Times at Signalized Intersections; REPORT
- University
of Utah; I-15 New HOV Lanes Vehicle and Occupancy Data; ABSTRACT
- Montana
State University; Performance of Speed Trailers in Vehicle Speed Reduction; ABSTRACT
- University
of Arizona; Evaluation of Highway-Railroad Crossings; ABSTRACT
- San
Diego State University; Survey of Parking Demand at SDSU Before LRT; ABSTRACT
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