May was National Bike Month, and Knoxville’s participation showed how eager the community is to continue growing its bike culture.
There were activities throughout the month with various events, rides, and classes that celebrated all kinds of people who ride bicycles. Several local businesses also contributed to the momentum by offering a discount to anyone displaying their I Bike KNX helmet sticker throughout the month.
Monitoring traffic volumes on area roadways is an important tool that helps planners and engineers prioritize roadway improvements.
Annual traffic counts, gathered at over 2,000 locations in the region, show trends and identify areas where traffic may be approaching a roadway’s capacity.
For area realtors, bankers and land developers, traffic count information is equally important when analyzing locations for investment and marketing.
With the recent release of traffic counts collected in 2014, retrieval of multi-year histories of average daily traffic is now a point and click operation. The Knoxville Regional Transportation Planning Organization has developed a web-based map application that delivers several years of data for hundreds of traffic count stations on area roadways.
Access the map at knoxtrans.org/traffic-counts.
TPO traffic count web map showing fifteen years of data at a Tennessee Department of Transportation count station on Northshore Drive west of I-I40 in Knoxville.
Get the data: click any station to retrieve counts at that location
Find locations: type addresses, business names, places, or street names in the search box
View aerial photos: use the Switch Basemap Button to view aerial photos and other basemaps
Download traffic counts: Data for any count station can be downloaded for use in spreadsheet applications like Excel using the Download CSV buttonKnoxville Regional Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) staff, City of Alcoa officials and representatives from Smart Growth America hosted a community event and an in-depth workshop on September 1 and 2, 2015 to learn more about innovative approaches to pursuing quality small downtown development and redevelopment.
View the report here to learn more about key development issues Alcoa faces and the community's options as it moves forward.
A set of project amendments for both the Long Range Regional Mobility Plan and FY 2014-2017 Transportation Improvement Program were adopted by the TPO Executive Board at their March 10, 2015 meeting.
An air quality conformity determination for these amendments was required due to the Knoxville Region's current air quality attainment status with Federal Clean Air Act regulations. A presentation was provided by the TPO staff that gives an overview of the transportation planning requirements associated with meeting the Federal air quality regulations and the conformity analysis that was conducted by the TPO to demonstrate compliance of its transportation plans with those requirements. View the presentation here.