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Reference Number

0000233991

Issuing Organization

CDOT CPCS & PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

Owner Organization

CDOT - DTD

Solicitation Type

RFP - Request for Proposal (Formal)

Solicitation Number

RFP 20-182 NM

Title

DTD Colorado Statewide Household Travel Survey

Source ID

PU.AG.USA.2386.C2710326

Details

Location

United States, Colorado, Denver County

Piggyback Contract

Description

Contract Description

This Request for Proposal (RFP) is for the Colorado Statewide Travel Survey (CSTS) services. The awarded vendor will provide work by way of Task Order that may be issued pursuant to a Master Task Order Contract. Any Task Order issued under the contract will describe the work required to be delivered to CDOT.

Travel surveying has a long history in Colorado, stretching back at least to the early 1970s. Most recently, a group of partners conducted the Front Range Travel Counts project in 2010. The four Front Range Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs), together with RTD, CDOT, and the City and County of Denver funded this project, which gathered household travel diaries from approximately 12,000 households from Fort Collins to Pueblo. The project also included a commercial vehicle survey, and a cordon survey of vehicles entering and exiting the Front Range area. This data has been used extensively across the Front Range, especially for updating MPO travel models. CDOT also used this data to build Colorado’s first statewide travel model, completed in 2018.

Numerous academic studies, and public and private-sector projects have documented the significant and comprehensive changes occurring at present in the field of transportation, and similarly numerous analyses have expressed the expectation that these shifts are likely to accelerate in the coming years. Key changes, past, present and predicted, include:

Moves toward much greater use of connected and automated vehicle technology;
Shift in vehicle fuels away from gasoline and diesel fuel and toward electric power;
Shifts in travel mode across the spectrum, including changes in the use of traditional transit, expansion of the use of small personalized vehicles (e.g., scooters, skateboards, ebikes, etc.), and greater use of transportation network company (TNC) services, among other changes.
Huge shifts in the types and amount of data available describing transportation infrastructure and travel behavior.

This is only an abbreviated list: it is not an exaggeration to say that large-scale changes are forecasted to touch every aspect of transportation across the surface, freight, and aviation sectors. It might be argued that it is poor timing to conduct a travel survey in the middle of such a volatile period. However, few analysts are predicting that the transportation system will reach stability any time soon, so waiting for that day to come is not a viable option. Further, analysts and policy-makers are eager to obtain data that helps them at least to know what shifts are taking place, even if the future remains very hard to envision.

Survey Purposes
The Colorado Department of Transportation seeks consultant assistance to conduct a travel survey and data acquisition project beginning in 2020. Partners in this project currently include:

The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT)
The Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG)
The Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments (PPACG)
The North Front Range Metropolitan Planning Organization (NFRMPO)
The Pueblo Area Council of Governments (PACOG)
The Grand Valley Metropolitan Planning Organization (GVMPO)

CDOT also is in discussion with other potential partners. CDOT and its partners recognize that rapid changes in the transportation landscape make it difficult for us to fully specify our survey requirements. In this RFP scope, CDOT attempts to be specific when it feels it knows how to be, and to be clear in identifying areas in which it cannot be specific. In such areas, we expect respondents to use their judgment in responding, and provide their best guidance to us in their proposal of how the survey should be conducted. However, CDOT and its partners provide here their clearest description of their purposes in conducting this survey, which the respondents should use as foundation when they are using their judgment concerning how the survey should be structured. In this volatile environment, we also feel it is crucial to build flexibility into the project to adapt to unanticipated changes in the landscape.

Project purposes include:

Gather data that permits a “point in time” snapshot of travel in the state.
Gather data to update the state and Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) travel forecasting models in Colorado, including all standard elements of household travel and modeling at the state and regional levels (i.e., complete daily activity patterns, internal-external/external-internal/external/external (IE/EI/EE} trips, etc.) Solid data for “typical weekday” travel is the top priority here, covering all urban surface travel modes for all household occupants. Note that, at the time of the release of this RFP, CDOT and DRCOG have activity-based travel models, PPACG has a hybrid activity-based model, and all the other MPOs have traditional trip-based models.
Gather data showing the use of traditional motorized modes (e.g., walk/drive to transit, drive-alone, carpool), non-motorized modes (walk and bicycle), new motorized modes, especially transportation network companies (TNCs), and micro-transit modes (e.g., scooters, etc.), and potentially household travel substitution modes, such as grocery and restaurant deliveries, internet-order package deliveries, etc.
Develop a plan to gather data periodically through the coming decade that will guide tracking what are expected to be significant changes in the transportation landscape during the 2020s.
Gather for the first time data describing weekend travel, to support weekend travel analysis and model development.
Gather survey data that can serve as a benchmark/comparison for new data sources.
Gather data that permits analysis/modeling of inter-regional trips, noting that many intra-state, inter-regional trips in Colorado are long-distance trips with all the standard characteristics and challenges in analyzing and modeling such trips.
Gather data that permits analysis and modeling of intra-state, long-distance recreational travel, especially trips from the Front Range to mountain destinations for a variety of recreational purposes. Note that this will require obtaining weekend data in summer, winter, or both.
Gather data that permits analysis and modeling of visitor travel to Colorado from outside the state.

Dates

Publication

03/06/2020 12:38 PM MST

Question Acceptance Deadline

03/19/2020 05:00 PM MDT

Closing Date

04/08/2020 02:00 PM MDT

Contact Information

Natalie Martinez

303-757-9374

natalie.a.martinez@state.co.us

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