How Cyclists Commute

Stava's running & cycling tracking app includes a 'commute' option, which allows users to tag their runs & rides to as well as from work. It equally good allows Stava to furnish maps which present how Strava users commute to work.

Strava Insights has provided a discover of interactive maps showing how cyclists commute inwards roughly of the world's major cities. The maps furnish a heat-map persuasion of the virtually used roads as well as wheel paths used past times cyclists inwards their daily commutes.

Stava's Global Heatmap already provides a prissy overview of where Strava users virtually similar to run as well as cycle. You tin at i time compare the Global Heatmap amongst the commuting maps inwards Strava Insights to come across if at that topographic point is whatever departure betwixt routes pop for commuting as well as routes used for other activities.

Comparing the commuting map of London amongst the Global Heatmap of London at that topographic point does look to last roughly differences inwards the routes chosen past times cycling commuters as well as those taken past times other cyclists. Major roads look to last to a greater extent than pop for cyclists when commuting. The Global Heatmap shows tiddler dorsum roads beingness used to a greater extent than than inwards the commuting map. This suggests that leisure cyclists may last to a greater extent than probable to purpose longer routes amongst less route traffic than commuters. Commuting cyclists withal look to favor speed of locomote over other concerns.