ORcycle Project Presentation October 2014

Br yan Blanc

Dr. Miguel F ig l iozz i

Tr a n sp o r t a t ion , Tec h n o log y, a n d Peo p le L a b

Po r t la n d S t a te Un ive r s i t y -

Dep a r t m en t o f C i v i l a n d E nv i ro n m en t a l E n g in eer in g

UTILIZING SMARTPHONE

DATA TO IMPROVE BICYCLE

LEVEL OF SERVICE

ESTIMATION

1

Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) research project

Project Objectives

Review:

Bicycle facility and environment evaluation methodologies

Smartphone apps related to bicycling

Data availability related to bicycle routes/infrastructure

Develop smartphone app

Analyze data

ABOUT

About | Review | ORcycle | Applications | Next Steps | Closing 2

Bicycle Level of Service (BLOS)

Network BLOS

Level of Traffic Stress

Bikeability

Bicycle Friendliness

BICYCLE FACILITY + ENVIRONMENT

EVALUATION


BICYCLE FACILITY + ENVIRONMENT

EVALUATION


Term→

Feature/Scope ↓

BLOS Network

BLOS

Level of

Stress

Bikeability Bicycle

Friendliness

Segment/Intersection

Network PMs

User Group

Accessibility

Community &

Government

Unique feature underlined

SMARTPHONE APPS


Infrastructure Crowdsourcing Apps

Transportation Planning Apps and Recreational Apps

BICYCLE PLANNING APPS


CycleTracks

(San Francisco, CA)

Cycle Atlanta

(Atlanta, GA)

Mon RésoVélo

(Montréal, QC)

Ride TrackingIssue/Amenity

reporting

GHG, calories, reporting

User interface improvements

INFRASTRUCTURE CROWDSOURCING

APPS


Citizens Connect

(Boston, MA)PDX Reporter

(Portland, OR)

iBikeEugene

(Eugene, OR)

Infrastructure Reporting Open Source Bicycle Specific

RECREATIONAL APPS


Recreational applications track bicycle rides, but are skewed towards recreational users

Data asked

Information provided

Use of incentives

Sample bias Strava

BICYCLE DATA AVAILABILITY


Bicycle route, infrastructure, and count data inventory in Oregon

Emphasis on geocoded data (ready for analysis with GIS software)

Agency Levels:

State

MPO

City

University

DATA SOURCES


State MPO City University

• Oregon

Department of

Transportation

(ODOT)

• Oregon

Household

Activity Survey

(OHAS)

• Metro (Portland)

• Mid-Willamette Valley

COG (Salem-Keiser)

• Corvallis Area MPO

• Central Lane MPO

(Eugene-Springfield)

• Bend MPO

• Rogue Valley MPO

(Ashland-Medford)

• Portland

• Salem

• Corvallis

• Eugene

• Bend

• Ashland

• Medford

• Portland State

University

(Portland)

• Oregon State

University

(Corvallis)

• University of

Oregon (Eugene)

Other Geographic Data Sources:

• Google Maps

• Open Street Maps

DATA GAPS


Wealth of data that is not geocoded (maps, reports, traffic counts, etc.)

Low coverage and resolution of bicycle counts

Lack of consistency (data fields and definitions) even for GIS maps

Challenges:

How to standardize data collection and definitions?

Data gaps

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT


Android and iOS platforms

Built off of open source code bases – Cycle Atlanta for Android and RenoTracks for iOS

Data server, internal website, and public website

ADDED FEATURES:


Updated and re-branded user interface

Added many survey questions

User group questions

Post-trip questions

Location specific safety questions

Additional notification features to optimize information received from user

ORcycle


iOS Android

Improve bicycle facility evaluation and prioritization procedures

Understand differential preferences of rural and urban cyclists in Oregon

Increase bicycle infrastructure data coverage and resolution

What might this look like?

APPLYING THE DATA


VISUALIZING ROUTE PREFERENCES


Screenshot of Strava Heat Map in Portland, OR Area (http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#11/-122.70862/45.49892/blue/bike)

BLOS + LTS CALIBRATION


High LTS Map of Bike Routes in San Francisco, CAhttp://sf.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/stress.jpg

Fine-tuning the apps

Public release and promotion

Improving public website with mapping capabilities

Analyzing data

NEXT STEPS


Reaching users

Sample biases

User burden

Future app improvements

Long term data management

CHALLENGES


Robin Murray and Bikram Maharjan – ORcycle Team

Dr. Miguel Figliozzi – Principal Investigator + My Adviser

Members of the Technical Advisory Committee – Project Direction

PSU Transportation Graduate Students – Beta Testing

Oregon Department of Transportation – Project Funding

FHWA Eisenhower Graduate Transportation Fellowship –Additional Funding

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS


Please test our application – Beta version now available on the iTunes App Store and the Google Play Store

More info here: http://www.pdx.edu/transportation -lab/orcycle

Questions? Contact [email protected].

THANK YOU


ORcycle

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