Each fall, transportation professionals face the difficult challenge of planning next year's budget and using up existing funds. Here's how traffic analytics are helping them budget more effectively.
In Oakland, CA, 2023 plans for Grand Ave. prioritize traffic flow over road safety, but big data analysis could support alternatives that balance both.
Learn how you can use turning movement counts to facilitate safety planning, signal retiming, commuter and tourism planning, and retail site selection.
Taylor Swift's Eras Tour was notable for its impact on transit ridership...but also traffic congestion. Here's what her tour revealed about special events traffic management — and how planners and operators can avoid "Bad Blood."
Find out how transportation analytics can help communities make electric vehicle charger deployment more convenient and affordable with smarter siting, boosted awareness, and ample grid capacity.
Getting data for congestion management is costly and time-consuming, but StreetLight's new tool helps agencies and consultants view region-wide trends in minutes.
To plan effective decarbonization initiatives, transportation agencies need data on trip origins, truck traffic, and the impact of EVs. StreetLight’s new GHG Emissions Metrics help them zero in.
Many thought the COVID-19 pandemic would be the final nail in the coffin for the American mall, but mall traffic trends show that people are still visiting – just not at the same times they used to.
By removing or repurposing lanes of traffic, a road diet can improve safety, cut emissions, and reduce traffic. See how they work, with real road diet examples and the data behind their success.
Complete Streets policies promote safe and equitable outcomes for all road users. Here’s how they do it, and how digital traffic data makes them more effective.
Need a transportation API that delivers rich mobility insights? StreetLight's Developer Hub makes it easy to get the data you need to make informed decisions.
Corridor studies offer crucial connectivity insights for major roadways, but they’re also time-consuming and costly. Analytics help streamline data collection and add nuance to inform corridor improvements.
Traffic congestion is making a comeback since the pandemic dip, but a 2022 analysis shows it’s not too late to address it while ensuring cities thrive.
Traffic congestion is making a comeback since the pandemic dip, but a 2022 analysis shows it’s not too late to address it while ensuring cities thrive.
StreetLight Advanced Traffic Counts is a new transportation dataset for commercial customers engaged in real estate site selection and related activities.
Need comprehensive site selection analytics? StreetLight Advanced Traffic Counts offer vehicle and pedestrian Metrics for over 8 million road segments.
Access data that will help guide alternative fuel corridors (AFCs) and the NEVI funding proposal for your state. Support reliable and equitable statewide and national EV networks.
Agencies and consultants used StreetLight InSight to analyze travel behavior of disadvantaged populations and empower agencies to address public health issues like infant mortality.
TRB 2022 thought leadership on topics of boosting equitable transportation, improving road safety and deploying EV infrastructure to meet growing demand.
Federal guidelines for investment in EV charging station infrastructure include how to determine optimal electric vehicle charging locations to meet demand equitably among all communities as prescribed by the infrastructure bill.
In a long-awaited traffic calming policy report, Midland, Ontario council members recommend using StreetLight Insight to pinpoint high-priority roadways.
StreetLight’s analysis shows that traffic in city centers is below normal, with suburban traffic more than recovering and pedestrian safety being an issue.
UC Davis transportation students used StreetLight Metrics to analyze traveler sociodemographics, trip volume, speed, and duration changes by travel mode in and around campus.
StreetLight’s Turning Movement Count (TMC) Metrics save transportation engineers and planners time without putting sensor-deploying staff in harm’s way, or relying on outdated equipment.
Redesigning the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) in New York, Stantec’s team imagined a stepwise approach to shift freight and passenger travel modes while reclaiming space for the community.
How to strengthen your organization’s data culture to ensure your team gets more insights, improves cross-functional relationships, and maximizes cost-to-benefit ratios.
Volta Charging’s strategic partnership with StreetLight will provide transportation analytics to public sector agencies, utilities, transportation planners, and engineering firms, encouraging EV adoption by smart deployment of EV infrastructure.
How we can make the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework more successful: Require lawmakers to prioritize accountability when it comes to spending taxpayer dollars.
As rush hour bounces back, Wired draws on StreetLight’s research and agency opinions for this in-depth look at impact on the economy, public transit, and suburban communities.
Connected vehicle data includes “near miss” indicators including harsh braking, harsh acceleration, and hard cornering. Combining that with transportation metrics offers fresh insights on vehicle safety.
See how to target the highest-exposure areas for bike safety improvements. This type of analysis can help cities and states invest wisely in bicycle safety through infrastructure planning that has the most impact.
Before we fund the $2 billion transportation infrastructure bill we must guarantee that our tax dollars achieve the intended goal. Here is how agencies can predict impact and measure before-and-after results.
U.S. News and World Report sharek key takeaways from StreetLight’s Bike Safety Report, including the 10 most dangerous states for cyclists, and new ways to measure bike safety.
Transportation planners have speculated that work-from-home policies could positively affect climate change by reducing emissions. We analyze this tempting alternative to infrastructure or policy changes
StreetLight named Michael Huerta to its board of directors, strengthening the transportation analytics company’s position as the U.S. considers $2 trillion spending on infrastructure.
Analyzing transportation risk in Orlando, FL for pedestrians reveals that at least one suburban zone has 19x higher risk than downtown, even though crash rates are similar.
Shared automated electric vehicles (SAEV) could combine the safety and convenience of self-driving cars, the efficiency of shared mobility, and the sustainability of EVs. This analysis evaluates requirements and impact.
ITS International highlights pedestrian fatality rates, sharing StreetLight’s pedestrian safety research report, and insights into changing pedestrian travel.
Where did people relocate in 2020? StreetLight’s custom analysis shows the top city pairs that people moved from and to, revealing that those who moved during the pandemic sized down.
Visitorship seemed like it was increasing at Pocahontas State Park, Virginia’s top mountain biking destination. But what were the numbers, and where were visitors coming from? It only took a few hours in the StreetLight InSight ® software platform to find out, and the results surprised me.
StreetLight now offers stronger support to those researching transit’s past and planning for its future. Learn about our on-demand Bus and Rail Metrics for the U.S. and Canada, now included in our Multimode subscription.
Learn how to analyze where traffic actually detours compared to suggested routes, and how that impacts aging bridges across this section of the Mississippi River.
From “business as usual” planning to measuring COVID-19’s effects on transportation, here are some examples of the great work transportation planners were able to achieve in 2020.
Nick Lepp, Director of Transportation Planning at MetroPlan Orlando, explains how his team leverages their investment in Big Data analytics by sharing it with other agencies.
The Associated Press highlights a record-breaking travel day during the pandemic, citing data from StreetLight capturing the Thanksgiving Day travel spike.
Traffic congestion in major urban areas is shifting, post-COVID. Our analysis of rush-hour traffic shows that while total miles driven are back to pre-COVID levels, when and where trips occur is quite different.
The Greater Madison MPO maximizes efficiency by quickly and easily running analyses to rule out dead-end transportation projects, and better optimize resources.
Sample size is key for data collection projects in transportation. In this post, we explore how we evaluated our sample size for commercial vehicles in CA.
To understand (and predict) how work-from-home policies impact vehicle miles traveled statistics, we analyzed how commutes changed in 2020 for Seattle’s four largest employers.
Taylor Emerson, Manager of Strategic Planning for the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, explains how she uses LBS data to advocate for her park system.
Bloomberg NEF relied on StreetLight bicycle data and other sources to analyze global demand for bike sharing services as impacted by Covid-19 multimodal transportation trends.
How to adapt short- and long-term transportation planning amid current uncertainty. You can still chart a path with so many factors outside your control.
StreetLight Data closed a Series D funding round of $15 million. Macquarie Capital and Activate Capital joined existing investors Osage University Partners and Ajax Investment Strategies.
In the time of Corona, the bicycle became a more important travel option than driving. Read our analysis to see where cycling and driving shifted during May.
Panini Chowdhury of the Brooke Hancock Jefferson Metropolitan Planning Commission analyses changing travel in West Virginia and Jefferson County, Ohio.
BCG used StreetLight’s vehicle miles traveled statistics to create a Trip Reduction Index, measuring stay-at-home policies in each state, county, and MSA.
We at StreetLight have been paying close attention to the COVID-19 pandemic, and our hearts go out to all affected. We are working hard to navigate this unchartered road, and we will do it together - as a team, and with our customers.
Fast Company covers the changes in pandemic travel, and how that affects sustainability, featuring data from StreetLight’s 2020 U.S. Climate Impact Index.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – October 29, 2019. StreetLight Data, the leader in Big Data analytics for mobility, Siemens ITS Digital Lab, a digital application center for Intelligent Traffic Systems, and Siemens Energy Business Advisory, the leader in strategic planning for energy transitions, are pooling their data and industry knowledge to help communities prepare for the growth in electric vehicles (EVs)…
A new tool from the mobility analytics company StreetLight Data maps bike and pedestrian data in much more detail, using machine learning to analyze location data from mobile phones and understand how many people are walking, biking, or driving on any particular street throughout the day.
The new Bike and Pedestrian Essentials offers complete, stand-alone access to key industry big data for transportation metrics for these modes, previously offered only as part of StreetLight’s premium Multimode software tier.
With cycling fatalities on the rise, bike riding doesn’t feel very safe right now. These are the ways I hope Big Data can help planners make a safer future.
Year-long program will give select nonprofits use of mobility data to advance safer and more livable urban infrastructure September 30, 2019 - Spin, Ford’s electric scooter and micromobility subsidiary, is launching an initiative to help non-profit advocates leverage data-gathering tools to fight for infrastructure change. Working with transportation analytics platform StreetLight Data and mobility data platform Populus, Spin is taking…
StreetLight Data unveils new Annual Average Hourly Traffic (AAHT) counts and Monthly Annual Daily Traffic (MADT) counts. Transportation planners, engineers and other industry experts can now access hourly, daily, weekly and monthly traffic metrics using the cloud-based software platform, StreetLight InSight®. AAHT and MADT counts are essential for identifying and forecasting traffic conditions for specific days or months of the…
As mapping needs advance, city planners use innovative mapping tools to plan city roads. One of these tools is StreetLight Data, which uses big data from mobile devices to understand travel behavior of cars, bicyclists, and pedestrians.
At StreetLight, we know how important shopping malls are for our communities, and we can help collect the statistics modern malls need to thrive. Read our analysis to learn more.
Full story originally published by SmartCitiesWorld.net on July 11, 2019. The mobility big data specialist provides on-demand traffic volumes for more than 4.5 million miles of Canadian and US roadway, based on 100 billion location points every month. StreetLight Data, the big data analytics mobility specialist that aims to help cities make better decisions over transport and infrastructure, has…
By fusing permanent IoT transportation sensors with our mobile data resources (and some excellent data science) we can provide data for activity on every road, sidewalk, bikelane, and neighborhood.
Maine transportation agencies purchased a subscription to Streetlight Data services to gather detailed transportation data, reported in the Portland Press Herald.
One of the world’s most sparsely populated countries, Canada can’t always rely on traffic counters for collecting vehicle trip data, especially on rural roads. Learn why our AADT Canada metrics are fast, easy, and more affordable than traditional traffic counters.
As mapping needs advance, city planners use innovative mapping tools to plan city roads. One of these tools is StreetLight Data, which uses big data from mobile devices to understand travel behavior of cars, bicyclists, and pedestrians.
Visitorship seemed like it was increasing at Pocahontas State Park, Virginia’s top mountain biking destination. But what were the numbers, and where were visitors coming from? It only took a few hours in the StreetLight InSight ® software platform to find out, and the results surprised me.
As part of a study about the area around the Hall, consultants used location-based data to learn about visitors to the Hall. The information came from StreetLight Data, a subscription-based service that lets government entities explore data from mobile devices to find solutions to transportation problems.
Jason’s Law affects truck parking in every state, but how can you determine the optimal parking options? Fehr & Peers and StreetLight Data teamed up to study truck parking options on the I-5 corridor in California’s Central Valley. Our results can help DOTs increase highway safety for all drivers.
Truck traffic creates the most road wear, but what’s the best way to accurately measure truck traffic? That’s where Big Data comes in. GPS data can pinpoint trip origin, destination, route, duration, and more. Traditional truck traffic measurement just can't keep up.