Evaluating the use of crowdsourcing as a data collection method for bicycle performance measures and identification of facility improvement needs.

Details

• Creators:
  Figliozzi, Miguel ; Blanc, Bryan
• Corporate Creators:
  Portland State University. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Bicycle travel
  • Smartphones
  • Mobile applications
  • Global Positioning System
  • Data collection
  • Route choice
  • Comfort
  • Attitudes
  • Questionnaires
  • Stress (Psychology)
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• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-OR-RD-16-04
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Oregon
• Corporate Publisher:
  Oregon. Dept. of Transportation. Research Section
• Abstract:
  This research developed a smartphone application called ORcycle to collect cyclists’ routes, users, and ; comfort levels. ORcycle combines GPS revealed route data collection with new questionnaires that try ; to elicit cyclists’ attitudes as well as comfort levels and factors that influence their perceived comfort ; and route choice. The new questionnaires were developed to better understand how cyclists’ comfort ; levels are affected by route characteristics, route stressors, safety reports, cyclists’ demographics, and ; cyclists’ cycling attitude. Preliminary results show that many trip characteristics, route choice factors, ; route stressors and demographic variables are correlated with comfort levels. ORcycle is the first ; statewide deployment of a smartphone application to collect bicycle specific safety and crash data in ; addition to travel and comfort data. Potential applications that can take advantage of the ORcycle data ; include: comfort and route models, prioritization of network improvements, and crash and injury risk ; models.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  SPR 768
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/29208/dot_29208_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.00 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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