Description: Transportation Research Board Visualization Committee
Transportation data is an incredibly valuable tool for agencies and organizations looking to improve their operations. By visualizing transportation data, these entities can gain insights into how people move around in their cities and towns, allowing them to make more informed decisions about infrastructure investments, public safety initiatives, and other policies that affect the lives of citizens.
Visualizing transportation data helps agencies identify patterns in travel behavior that are otherwise difficult or impossible to detect using traditional methods like surveys or manual observation. It also allows them to compare different areas or times of day so they can better understand how people use the roads and transit systems available to them. This information can be used to prioritize projects such as bike lanes, bus routes, road repairs, traffic calming measures, pedestrian walkways – anything r
Agencies often create dynamic maps with color-coded layers that represent various types of movement (e.g., cars on highways versus bicycles on side streets). These maps help visualize where congestion occurs during rush hour periods or which intersections have the highest number of accidents due to poor visibility conditions. They may also show how frequently certain modes of transport are used across a region over time—for instance if there has been an increase in bicycle ridership over the past few years