Active Transportation

​Assessment Scorecard.

This tool provides an easy-to-implement way to assess how citizens in your community feel about different roadway segments. After collecting some basic information about a roadway segment, enter the information here to get a scorecard telling you how well it currently supports your community!  Results can be used to identify roadway segments needing improvements or ranking roadway segments based on need or priorities.

Assess Your Roadway on 5 Factors!

This scorecard assessment tool represents a combination of the best aspects of a questionnaire (i.e. easy to understand and answer) and a LOS tool (i.e. provides a quantifiable value for comparison and ranking).  The scorecard was designed to simplify data collection and the scoring process.  It is based on active travel perception survey data collected from citizens in rural and suburban communities.

After entering the information about a roadway segment, you will get a scorecard telling you how your community likely perceives (a) pedestrian safety from vehicle traffic, (b) bicyclist safety from vehicle traffic, (c) segment support of physical activity, (d) segment support for children and strollers, and (e) segment support for older pedestrians.  

Ideally, communities could use the assessment tool to evaluate many different roadway segments, collecting data and scoring each.  These scores (ranging from A to F) would be compared to determine which segments had the best and worst scores, so hopefully those with the worst relative scores would be improved.

Where Are We?
1. What community type do you live in?  Suburban Rural
2. This segment is located downtown.  Yes No
3. This segment provides trail access.  Yes No

I Spy With My Little Eye...
4. Posted speed limit sign  Yes No
5. Unpaved paths along the roadway  Yes No
6. Visible bike lane markings  Yes No
7. Crosswalks at intersections  Yes No
8. Visible crosswalk markings  Yes No
9. Curbs  Yes No

Everything Counts!
10. Number of vehicles that pass by in 1 minute 
11. Number of driveways 

Put Your Engineering Hat On!
12. Single lane width 
13. Parking lane width 
14. Sidewalk width 
15. Buffer/shoulder width 
16. Rank Sidewalk Maintenance 

Assess My Road!