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Transportation Data Standards

We're providing guidance for transportation data collection best practices. 

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The guidance provided on this page will help transportation planners and engineers. We want them to make more informed decisions on how best to use our rights-of-way. The City of Boston and transportation consultants will use data collection best practice recommendations on corridor studies and designs. This guidance is intended to inform, not replace, transportation planning, traffic analysis, or conceptual design.

Data collection standards

Review guides for data collection standards.

Traffic counts

Traffic counts policy during and post the COVID-19 pandemic.

Data resources

Data resources
Links to data sources useful for data collection and analysis.
Traffic-related data

Traffic data from previous counts. These include turning movement counts, pedestrian counts, and automated traffic recordings...
Bike counts

Annual bike count data. The counted locations provide a representative sample of people biking.
Crash data

This dataset contains records of the date, time, location, and type of crash for incidents requiring public safety response.
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