ITS affiliate, Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and City and Regional Planning (CRP) professor, Energy Analysis & Environmental Impacts Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Marta C.González, with CRP grad student Luis E.Olmos and Maria Sol Tadeo, CEE grad student Dimitris Vlachogiannis, Center for Computational Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology' Fahad Alhasounc, and Transport Global Practice, The World Bank's Xavier Espinet Alegred, Catalina Ochoad, and Felipe Targad recently published A data science framework for planning the growth of bicycle infrastructures.
Highlights
- •Planning bike trips with novel data sources.
- •Using percolation theory to optimize cost and maximize global connectivity.
- •Network Science for detecting affinity of trips by income level and further inform local interventions.
Abstract
Cities around the world are turning to non-motorized transport alternatives to help solve congestion and pollution issues. This paradigm shift demands on new infrastructure that serves and boosts local cycling rates. This creates the need for novel data sources, tools, and methods that allow us to identify and prioritize locations where to intervene via properly planned cycling infrastructure. Here, we define potential demand as the total trips of the population that could be supported by bicycle paths. To that end, we use information from a phone-based travel demand and the trip distance distribution from bike apps. Next, we use percolation theory to prioritize paths with high potential demand that benefit overall connectivity if a bike path would be added. We use Bogotá as a case study to demonstrate our methods. The result is a data science framework that informs interventions and improvements to an urban cycling infrastructure.
Read more at the World Bank Blog
See the article: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2020.102640