City Cycling Stress Scores

Moovel Lab's What the Street? provides an interesting analysis of how much infinite is dedicated to cars, to cycling in addition to to trains inwards cities around the world. According to What the Street cyclists inwards most cities around the footing tin flaming typically await much less than 10 pct of the physical infinite that is dedicated to cars.

The lineament of a city's cycling network yet is far to a greater extent than than simply a reflection of the sum of physical infinite dedicated to bikes. It too relies on how good a cycling network connects people to the places that they desire to become in addition to to the levels of stress that they sense spell on their bikes. PlacesForBikes has thence carried out a detailed analysis of local wheel networks across the U.S.A. of America in addition to ranked its towns in addition to cities on how practiced they are for cycling.

The PlacesForBikes Bicycle Network Analysis allows yous to stance the results of this cycling network census inwards 299 towns in addition to cities. You tin flaming stance an interactive map for each town in addition to city. The maps present the selected city's street colored according to their cycling stress score. Each map too includes the town or city's overall Bicycle Network Analysis marking in addition to private scores for how tardily it is for the population to access dissimilar places (e.g. parks, stores in addition to wellness services) past times bike.

You tin flaming read to a greater extent than nigh how the Bicycle Network Analysis scores are calculated on the PlacesForBikes Methodology page. The methodology partly relies on how streets are tagged on OpenStreetMap inwards damage of the roadway characteristics of import to bikes in addition to cyclists.