BikeDNA: A tool for bicycle infrastructure data and network assessment
Building high-quality bicycle networks requires knowledge of existing bicycle infrastructure. However, bicycle network data from governmental agencies or crowdsourced projects like OpenStreetMap often suffer from unknown, heterogeneous, or low quality, which hampers the green transition of human mobility. In particular, bicycle-specific data have peculiarities that require a tailor-made, reproducible quality assessment pipeline: For example, bicycle networks are much more fragmented than road networks, or are mapped with inconsistent data models. To fill this gap, we introduce BikeDNA, an open-source tool for reproducible quality assessment tailored to bicycle infrastructure data with a focus on network structure and connectivity. BikeDNA performs either a standalone analysis of one data set or a comparative analysis between OpenStreetMap and a reference data set, including feature matching. Data quality metrics are considered both globally for the entire study area and locally on grid cell level, thus exposing spatial variation in data quality. Interactive maps and HTML/PDF reports are generated to facilitate the visual exploration and communication of results. BikeDNA supports quality assessments of bicycle infrastructure data for a wide range of applications—from urban planning to OpenStreetMap data improvement or network research for sustainable mobility.
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Supplemental Notes:
- © The Author(s) 2023.
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Authors:
- Vierø, Ane Rahbek
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0000-0002-2404-7271
- Vybornova, Anastassia
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0000-0001-6915-2561
- Szell, Michael
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0000-0003-3022-2483
- Publication Date: 2024-2
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: References;
- Pagination: pp 512-528
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Serial:
- Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
- Volume: 51
- Issue Number: 2
- Publisher: Sage Publications Limited
- ISSN: 2399-8083
- EISSN: 2399-8091
- Serial URL: http://journals.sagepub.com/home/epb
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Bicycling; Geospatial data; Interactive computer systems; Networks; Sustainable transportation
- Identifier Terms: OpenStreetMaps (Software)
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01897224
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Oct 23 2023 4:52PM