Proactive Planning - Identifying Common Characterstics of the Built Environment that Make LA Streets Dangerous
Roles:
- Ellie: Organizer, Time keeper, Scheduler, coder, built environment specialist, more roles to come
- Danielle: Transportation background/related research gatherer, coder, visual language consistency overseer, more roles to come
Status Update Overall, we're doing well, maybe a little intimidated. The general team vibe is good, we work well together and have a good balance/are able to help each other understand things.
- What is working:
- Brainstorming, coming up with more ideas for our project as we are learning new tools
- What is not working:
- Nothing is not working (for now)
Date Update
We have some data sets from our first assignments, but definitely need to explore more and gather more data sets.
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Data we have:
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Data we don't have/need to explore more:
- Open Streets map (use this for speed, road characteristics?)
- Traffic counts - need to explore more
- Signs - need to explore its usefulness
- Number of lanes
- Signalized crossings
- Bus Routes
- Bike lanes
Concerns
- Minor Concerns:
- Translating what we’ve learned in the labs when we have data sets that are slightly different
- Need to define if we are focusing on deaths or severe injuries as our locations of focus, and how many per location
- Major Concerns:
- Incorporating two+ different data sets/layering those on top of each othe
- Defining the parameters (what variables will we use)
- For example, length of corridors?
- Figuring out the progression of how the rest of our project should go...what our are next steps and in what order)
- Scope! What’s realistic given the amount of time we have?
Possible Next Steps
- Pick 5 locations with high traffic fatality rates to use to start to explore street characteristic data as test runs
- Explore these 5 characteristics:
* Speed
* Width/type of road
* Land use