I just came across your excellent app, and now this thoughtful data review.
Have started adding my own data to the pool, and look forward to more observations.
Curious if you've considered soliciting city governments and municipalities, to use some of your collective map data, to focus some 'share the road' type signage around locations with dense car/bike interactions, that may not already have such resources?
Yes, absolutely, I know of one group already working with the city of Greenville, SC to demonstrate the effectiveness of signage to see if it reduces speeds during passes, although I've lost touch with that group and need to follow back up with them.
Happy to contribute data from both my daily commute plus any recreational riding I do, especially if it makes biking safer. Of note, part of my rides are on city streets and some are on recreational trails, so stretches with no cars passing. There are also areas where the recreational trail is adjacent to major roads and my radar detects cars doing 50-60 mph but not sharing the road with me.
Hi Brian - love that you are still into all things cycling. I might have missed it in the article, but what device(s) did you use to gather the telemetry from the riders?
Also, is the end result of the investigation potentially to result in any sort of safety recommendation - such as when to ride, or where not to ride based on car encounters?
And then on the non-academic side, when is your next long multi-day ride going to be? :-)
Hi Darol! The data is coming from the Garmin Varia radars and a Garmin ConnectIQ app I wrote to save all the data into the ride. I’d like to eventually have enough data to build a traffic map/routing based on time-of-day vehicle traffic. And I am very excited about my next long adventure coming up in June. I’ve booked a one-way flight to Edmonton, Canada and then I will be biking 4500 miles all the way back to my house in Alabama collecting lots of radar data along the way and hopefully seeing a bear or two (from a distance)!
Thanks man! I'm going to post a tracking link here on this substack since I'll be collecting a lot of data for this project as well as on my tracking website https://pickuta.com ... it will be the one listed at the top once I finalize all the route details.
I just came across your excellent app, and now this thoughtful data review.
Have started adding my own data to the pool, and look forward to more observations.
Curious if you've considered soliciting city governments and municipalities, to use some of your collective map data, to focus some 'share the road' type signage around locations with dense car/bike interactions, that may not already have such resources?
Yes, absolutely, I know of one group already working with the city of Greenville, SC to demonstrate the effectiveness of signage to see if it reduces speeds during passes, although I've lost touch with that group and need to follow back up with them.
That's amazing! I'm trying to spread the word about your awesome app and data, to get more users in my area to add their data to the pool.
Keep being an awesome human, Brian!
Happy to contribute data from both my daily commute plus any recreational riding I do, especially if it makes biking safer. Of note, part of my rides are on city streets and some are on recreational trails, so stretches with no cars passing. There are also areas where the recreational trail is adjacent to major roads and my radar detects cars doing 50-60 mph but not sharing the road with me.
Wonderful, do you have a Varia radar and a Garmin? If so, create an account here on https://mybiketraffic.com and then follow all the instructions on https://mybiketraffic.com/help to get everything setup.
Yes, I've already done that. Been contributing data for about a year in the Milwaukee area.
Hi Brian - love that you are still into all things cycling. I might have missed it in the article, but what device(s) did you use to gather the telemetry from the riders?
Also, is the end result of the investigation potentially to result in any sort of safety recommendation - such as when to ride, or where not to ride based on car encounters?
And then on the non-academic side, when is your next long multi-day ride going to be? :-)
Hi Darol! The data is coming from the Garmin Varia radars and a Garmin ConnectIQ app I wrote to save all the data into the ride. I’d like to eventually have enough data to build a traffic map/routing based on time-of-day vehicle traffic. And I am very excited about my next long adventure coming up in June. I’ve booked a one-way flight to Edmonton, Canada and then I will be biking 4500 miles all the way back to my house in Alabama collecting lots of radar data along the way and hopefully seeing a bear or two (from a distance)!
Wow - I will have to find a way/app to track your progress!! :-)
Thanks man! I'm going to post a tracking link here on this substack since I'll be collecting a lot of data for this project as well as on my tracking website https://pickuta.com ... it will be the one listed at the top once I finalize all the route details.