Robert Benz is a Research Engineer with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute and has over 29 years of experience. He has a broad background but has been collecting and analyzing data his entire career. I the past decade he has focused on non-motorized activities from the collection, storage, analysis, and use case activities, such as planning, project scoring, ranking, and project utilization
Phil Lasley is an Assistant Research Scientist with TTI and has worked with bicycle and pedestrian data issues for over 8 years. He has extensive experience with traffic mobility and measurement, data quality assurance/quality control, and mobility policy for the State Legislature. Phil strives to find ways to make data more usable and meaningful in planning and policy.
Michael Martin is an Assistant Research Scientist at TTI with 7 years of experience as a data-wrangling urban planner. He has a passion for the outdoors and a desire to help others find ways to get out and be active. Michael’s work is centered on applying spatial and advanced data analysis techniques to transportation planning and safety problems to produce practical results that help save lives, time, and resources.
Shawn Turner is a Senior Research Engineer at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), where he has conducted applied research for the past 28 years. Shawn is a data nerd and is passionate about making walking and biking safer and more convenient travel modes. His research focus areas include multimodal traffic data collection and analysis, performance measures and monitoring, and mobility analysis.
TxDOT and TTI are conducting a full-day training/workshop that provides a “deep dive” into 3 areas of bicyclist and pedestrian data:
Interactive exercises with local examples will be used to reinforce key principles and methods. Topics to be covered in each of these 3 areas include:
Collecting
Summarizing
Using