The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center released a white paper, to help communities quantify future demand for walking and bicycling facilities. The document offers a review of emerging forecasting approaches for quantifying and predicting pedestrian and bicycle demand and suggests next steps to improve them.

The document aims to allow planners and engineers to more reliably plan for pedestrian and bicycle facility demands by offering case studies, examples, costs, and both advantages and disadvantages of a variety of forecasting methods, including sketch planning techniques, aggregate demand models, network simulation tools, and others. It also lists the efforts being done to improve data collection tools and the research still needed to advance the practice of bicycle and pedestrian planning.

This free resource can be downloaded along with other papers, at the PBIC White Paper Series web page.