Bicycle Safety Analysis: Crowdsourcing Bicycle Travel Data to Estimate Risk Exposure and Create Safety Performance Functions
PI: Haizhong Wang (OSU), Haizhong.Wang@oregonstate.edu
Co-Investigators: Yinhai Wang (UW), Michael Lowry (UI)
Dates: 01/16/2015 – 06/15/2016
Status: Completed
UTC Project Sheet
Final Technical Report
Engineers and planners face challenges like insufficient data and lacking of proper tools when conducting safety analysis for bicyclists. This project will create tools, guidelines, and repeatable processes that engineers and planners can use to analyze crowdsourced bicycle data, calculate bicycle exposure to dangerous situations, and create and analyze safety performance functions for bicyclists.
State departments of transportation (DOTs) and local communities will be able to use the new tools from this project to make evidenced-based decisions when allocating limited transportation funds to prioritize bicycle safety improvement projects. The developed bicycle crowdsourcing data analysis tool, geographic information systems (GIS) tool for bicycle risk exposure analysis and bicycle safety performance function will help engineers or planners to make more informed decisions for safety analysis for a particular location.
