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Replica for
Active Transportation

Better Bike and Pedestrian Data for
Better Bike and Pedestrian Infrastructure.

In order to improve bike and pedestrian safety and encourage mode shift in our cities, planners and decision makers need the best data available to make sound decisions on infrastructure and policy. Replica now has the most comprehensive and trustworthy bike and pedestrian data available on the market.

Tap into the highest-quality data in the country

Replica’s unique approach to data gives the public sector a remarkably clear picture of mobility in their communities. With the most accurate, recent, and comprehensive bike and pedestrian data on the market, analysts and decision makers can better understand:

Where

people are walking and biking – origins / destinations, link volumes, peak times 

Why

they’re walking and biking – trip purpose, trip attributes 

Who

socio-economic and demographic backgrounds, access to vehicles

How

travel has changed over time

Identifying bicycle and pedestrian movements on all roads in Pioneer Valley MPO in Replica

Image: Identifying bicycle and pedestrian movements on all roads in Pioneer Valley MPO in Replica

Replica Metrics

  • Bike / ped volumes down to the network link level 
  • Bike / ped OD flows
  • Bike / ped demand analysis 
  • Mode split analysis 
  • Bike / ped safety analysis 
  • Bike / ped equity analysis 
  • Bike / ped infrastructure performance
  • VMT mitigation 
  • Congestion mitigation

Analyses Replica Enables

With Replica data, it's possible to answer new questions about bicyclists and pedestrians.

What intersections have the highest risk of speedy driving for elderly pedestrians?

On what routes would bike infrastructure best serve low-income communities with minimal public transit access?

Where has walking and biking increased the most since the pandemic?

Where could we improve bike and pedestrian infrastructure to boost local retail and restaurant spending?

How have our bike and pedestrian interventions made an impact?

How does land use contribute to bike and pedestrian activity?

Where are the best locations to invest in bike and pedestrian infrastructure? 

Reliable mobility data in an ever-changing environment. 

Existing bike and pedestrian data is often outdated, incomplete, and lacking full representation of our communities. These traditional sources are often:

  • Biased: limited to recreational trips, limited to people with mobile devices, and/or limited to more affluent populations 
  • Limited in scope: only represent a small percentage of all walk and bike trips
  • Low quality:  relying on coarse and outdated connected vehicle data to assume biking and walking trips or scaled down speed data to approximate biking and walking   
  • Outdated: lagging the real world by several years. 

Data that skews toward recreational cycling or that solely relies on connected vehicle pings and/or location based services cannot provide meaningful information on actual walking and biking patterns in any given area. In fact, the inconsistency of location-based data has caused other transportation data providers to halt the production of bike and pedestrian data.

Replica addresses these limitations by taking a composite approach to data sourcing that combines cutting edge machine learning with more traditional travel modeling processes, helping to  mitigate any issues related to location-based services data volatility, sample biases, and small sample sizes.  

This means that we account for every person in any given community and route every trip of every person – giving us rich and recent information on who is walking and biking, where they’re going, and for what purpose. Our outputs are informed, calibrated, and validated by dozens of diverse data sources with billions of data points, making our methods transparent and our data quality unmatched.  

Bicyclists and pedestrians are an important part of what makes our communities more sustainable and more livable, yet – they continue to be our most vulnerable road users. They deserve better data for better bike and pedestrian infrastructure.

Data You Can Trust

At Replica we understand that in order to utilize data, you first need to trust it. The best way to gain trust in data is to compare it to data you've already collected. To help ease the process of utilizing Replica Data, we are partnering with public agencies and consulting firms to perform Data Validations. Reach out to our team to partner in performing a Data Validation.

Use Cases

Replica has helped more than 150 customers across the United States make informed decisions to create stronger, more resilient, and more equitable places.

Bike and Pedestrian
Transit Connections
in New York City

In January 2023, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) released Extending Transit's Reach, a strategic action plan that seeks to enhance bicycle, pedestrian, and micro-mobility access to transit stations and other MTA facilities in the New York metropolitan area. The team used Replica data on bike trip usage, data from the American Community Survey (ACS), and Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) to divide the MTA’s subway stations into tiers based on a number of demographic factors. As noted in the plan, Extending Transit's Reach "[leverages] the industry's latest best practices and extensive data analysis to identify areas of greatest need within [the MTA] system." Replica data supported the existing conditions assessment that set the stage for the plan's bold recommendations.

Identifying & Creating Walkable Infrastructure in El Paso

El Paso wanted to look at whether building walkable places actually results in more walking thus reducing the number of vehicular trips . This would also address the issues of equity by make the city a more accessible place by not making car ownership a prerequisite. They turned to Replica to gather data on mode split. With Replica they were able to show the percentage of trips made walking or biking compared to the total trip origins from a specific block group. Through this analysis they were able to show that the downtown area has both a high walk score and the highest rate of trips made by walking or bike. Meanwhile, the fringes of the city have both low walk scores and a low percentage of trips made by walking or biking.

Prioritizing Intersections for Bike/Ped Detection Equipment in Broward County

When Broward County received funding to upgrade thermal bike/ped detection equipment for intersections in the county, they needed information on which intersections to prioritize these upgrades. They used Replica to capture total bike and pedestrian trips on weekdays and weekends across the intersections of interest, then layered on bike/ped crash data to rank the intersections from highest to lowest priority for sensor equipment upgrades. Broward was excited about what Replica could provide and requested the data for another 1500 intersections for a countywide assessment.

NYC Intersection Prioritization

Replica conducted an analysis to serve as a resource for the City of New York in advancing the commitment by the Mayor and NYC DOT to implement safety improvements at 1,000 intersections across the five boroughs. With nearly 50,000 intersections citywide, there is substantial benefit to using Replica data to support the process of analyzing and prioritizing the intersections (as well as subsequently measuring the impact of improvements). Using a composite of data sources from NYC Open Data and Replica data, Replica created a dynamic visualization that enables the City to analyze a number of factors such as intersection-specific crash statistics, travel activity, and equity considerations based on the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of the trip takers when prioritizing the desired locations for safety improvements.

Complete Streets
In Nashville

Replica’s Places data was used by TN DOT to investigate change in bicycling and pedestrian activity in Nashville and ultimately created a justification for a Complete Street on Dickerson Pike.

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Case Studies

Replica has helped more than 150 customers across the United States make informed decisions to create stronger, more resilient, and more equitable places.
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Webinar

Accessing Rich Active Transportation Data in a World Where it Seems to be Disappearing

In this webinar we discussed:

  • The limitations and challenges of traditional bike and pedestrian data
  • How traditional bike and pedestrian data has evolved over time
  • How Alta Planning + Design uses data to effectively model sustainable mode solutions
  • Replica’s unique approach to bike and pedestrian data
  • How to overcome today’s data challenges to build better bike and pedestrian infrastructure