By iMOVE
This project designs, tests, and validates a pilot methodology for harvesting activity data of active road users – pedestrians, cyclists, and other personal mobility devices. It draws on experience in processing and analysing massive geospatial temporal data generated by users of smartphone devices.
A pilot algorithm will be developed to extract active trips from the SkedGo dataset and then validated and improve the estimation of activity data by active travellers in an iterative process. This process will use behavioural insights obtained from research on active travellers in Australia and secondary data including Household Travel Surveys, GPS tracking data and cycling surveys (counts, speed, and volume).
The project will create an R program to pilot the potential to collect ongoing active travel data (R is an opensource free software). The project report will assess the costs and benefits of continuing to update the data to inform road safety data collection for policy, program design and progress reporting.
It will have a particular focus on progress reporting for the National Road Safety Strategy 2021-2030 AND National Road Safety Action Plan 2023-25 by, for example, identifying the locations and share of high pedestrian activity areas, share of roads with separated cycleways in a particular speed limit (≥ 40 km/h) and/or environments such as urban areas.
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