Bike, Bus, and Beyond: Extending Cyclopath to Enable Multi-Modal Routing

This project addressed several Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) critical issues and strategic directions: easing congestion and improving mobility by making multi-modal transit options more easily accessible. It did so by extending the Cyclopath bicycle route-finding system to support multi-modal routes that combine cycling and transit. This required extensions to the route-finding algorithm – to combine biking and transit appropriately – and user interface – to let users express modal preferences and enhance the visual presentation of routes, e.g., to mark mode shifts. The authors used the Graphserver open-source software to as the routing engine; by building on existing software, they reduced development effort. They conducted interviews with a number of multimodal transit users to guide the design of the user interface.

• Record URL:
  http://www.dot.state.mn.us/research/TS/2013/201319.pdf
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• Summary URL:
  http://www.dot.state.mn.us/research/TS/2013/201319TS.pdf
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  200 Union Street, SE
  Minneapolis, MN  United States  55455

  Minnesota Department of Transportation

  Research Services Section, 395 John Ireland Boulevard, Mail Stop 330
  St Paul, MN  United States  55155
• Authors:
  • Terveen, Loren
• Publication Date: 2013-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: 18p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Algorithms; Bicycling; Bikeways; Mobility; Modal shift; Multimodal transportation; Public transit; Routes and routing; Strategic planning; Traffic congestion; User interfaces (Computer science)
• Identifier Terms: Minnesota Department of Transportation
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01490218
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: MN/RC 2013-19
• Contract Numbers: (C) 89261 (WO) 193
• Files: TRIS, ATRI, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Aug 12 2013 11:51AM