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Analyzing Cycling Behavior During Different Time Periods Using Crowdsourced Bicycle Data

项目名称：	Analyzing Cycling Behavior During Different Time Periods Using Crowdsourced Bicycle Data
摘要：	Cycling, as a healthier and greener travel mode, has been encouraged for short-distance trips by city planners and policy makers. Since cycling provides an efficient way to improve public health, alleviate traffic congestion, and save energy consumption, it is essential to analyze the cycling behavior of current cyclists, so as to quantify the impacts of certain attributes on cycling behavior and further increase bicycle volume. To analyze cycling behavior, data including cycling speed, distance, time of day, day of week, etc. are quite indispensable. The methods for data collection are diverse. The most commonly used ones include traditional manual counts, travel surveys, and crowdsourced data from third party. Most of the previous research efforts have used the first two methods to collect the data of interest. However, these two methods can be expensive and time consuming, and perhaps of most importance, lack of spatial and temporal information. Crowdsourced data, on the contrary, are cost effective and time saving, which makes it widely used in many recent research studies. Among all the crowdsourced data, data collected from smartphone applications including Strava, CycleTracks, ORcycle, etc. have become more and more prevalent. Crowdsourcing has increased the availability of data collection, and provided an efficient way to address the data gap for decision making and performance measures. This research will concentrate on the analysis of cycling behavior using crowdsourced bicycle data collected from Strava in the City of Charlotte. A choice set generation method will be developed and applied for the preparation of the cycling behavior analysis. In addition to that, a Path Size Logit model based on the crowdsourced bicycle data will be developed to evaluate the impacts of different attributes on cycling behavior in the City of Charlotte. Finally, a comparison of distinctive cycling behavior during different time periods will be made. Based on the research results, recommendations on increasing bicycle volume will be provided.
状态：	Active
资金：	90006
资助组织：	Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
管理组织：	University of North Carolina, Charlotte
项目负责人：	Fan, Wei (David)
执行机构：	Center for Advanced Multimodal Mobility Solutions and Education
主要研究人员：	Fan, Wei (David)
开始时间：	20181001
预计完成日期：	20200930
实际结束时间：	0