Download - CycleStreets: Past, present and future
CycleStreets:CycleStreets:past, present, futurepast, present, future
Cycle journey planning, for cyclists, by cyclists
What does CycleStreets do?
What does CycleStreets do?
Photomap / Cyclescape
Campaigning tool
CycleStreets: who?
Simon NuttallRoutemaster
Martin Lucas-Smith
Webmaster
… and various people helping out in various ways!
Journey planner: features Route choices:
fastest/quietest/balanced UK, and… Takes accounts of hills Turn-by-turn Photos-en-route CO2 saved, Calories Waypoints…
“why?”
simon, http://cycle.st/p3481
Why? “More people cycling, more safely,
more often” Challenges to getting more people
cycling Traffic, confidence, cultural issues
Routes – different to car routes! Poor infrastructure
Why we do it…
“It helped me find a quick route from my house to my new job. Very much appreciated, well done.”
“Needed route planning with very current Cambridge maps and just used the excellent http://cyclestreets.net for the first time (non-cyclist).”
history
martin, http://cycle.st/p33221
CycleStreets: history Cambridge Cycling Campaign journey
planner June 2006 5,000 lines drawn over Gmap sat 47,000 journeys planned 15,000 photos
CycleStreets: history Edinburgh CycleStreets Scottish Government’s Sustainable
Transport section grant via Chris Hill, Changing Pace
CycleStreets: history Lots of requests for same thing
around the UK OpenStreetMap: free, no barriers UK-wide: March 2009 Busy since then
Struggling to keep up! Millions of cycle journeys Tens of millions multimodal journey
API calls
“standing on our own two feet”
kbrumann, http://cycle.st/p10560
Social enterprise
Not a business for sake of being a business
Ltd company, not-for-profit Charity not appropriate structure
Picture: umi3.co.uk
Funding
Generally low-cost operation Big projects and embedded journey
planners Turnover: 8k, 37k, 121k, 21k 1.5 years worth of salary (over 4
years)
Picture: utilityweek.co.uk
“going mobile”
bblake, http://cycle.st/p16715
iPhoneapp
Androidapp
BB10app
HTML5app
WindowsPhone 8app
Third-party
Third-party API
Barclays Bikes
Bike Hub industry satnav
Citymapper London/NY
ViewRanger
etc.
Bike Hub
Citymapper(bike routes)
BarclaysBikes
Local Authorities
timbo, http://cycle.st/p37664
White-label sites – Local Authorities
cyclestreets.net/services
Cycling Scotland Website journey planner
http://cyclejourneyplanner.cyclingscotland.org/
Communitymappingguide
www.cyclestreets.net/getmapping/guide/
PleaseCycle
West Sussex cycle planner
Various others CTC Bike Week LCC Somerset County Council Bike Hub Cambridge Cycling Campaign Beactive (Royal Mail) Spogo … more
Transport Direct CJP
www.transportdirect.info/Web2/JourneyPlanning/FindCycleInput.aspx
£2.4 million (from tax)
92,000 journeys planned(dated Jan 2011, total now = ??)
£26.09 per journey
£1m – budget for 2011
32 areas (professionally surveyed)
CycleStreetswww.cyclestreets.net
£28k
458,000 journeys planned(dated Jan 2011, reached 3.4m as of now)
6p per journey
£130k needed
UK-wide (but depends on OSM completeness)
Back in January 2011...
Was main feature on data.gov.uk for months!
UKGovNow much more positive relationshipRealise value through open dataTheir data going into OSM
Want to make CycleStreetsthe solution of choicefor Local Authorities
England Cycling Data project
Transportconsultancies- SDG
Transport information providers- Traveline Cymru
Bike Hub leisure routing
Prahou na kole(Prague by bike)
Photomap-based sites
Photomap-based sites
POI-based stuff
Flexible platform Work done for ‘skinnable’ interfaces Re-use of components for other systems
“putting it together”
simon, http://cycle.st/p1221
How a routing engine works
• Find route with lowest score, i.e. least ‘friction’
• ‘Shortest path algorithm’ - Standard problem incomputer science, we use A* method
How it works (briefly)
How it works
Adjust for hills Surface quality Cycle lane widths Barriers, obstructions (even
dropped kerbs) Lighting Turn delays now in engine
How it works (briefly)
So each path/street now has a score
User comes to the site System finds lowest total score from
A to B Repeat for quietest/fastest/balanced
(different scores for each)
Network compression Cell optimisation ( ‘Cello’)
Makes routing faster
Park: 4 nodes & 7 edges
After: 3 nodes & 3 edges
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9
A
BC
D
A
BC
4
10
6
3
BC = 6
AD,BD = 7
AC = 9
OpenStreetMap
CycleStreets data interrogation
Getting involved: open sourcing
Greater involvement Really, really are almost there now! Keeping it running priority Code from 2006-2013 Mobile apps, scripts,
Cyclescape done
github.com/cyclestreets
“challenges”
Warrington’s “Cycle Facility of the Month”, http://cycle.st/p11500
Competition Google OpenStreetMap-based UKGov
Uniqueness More than just a routing engine Needs a product / identity /
ecosystem Detailed knowledge of how cyclists
behave Cycling community embeddedness Flexible platform
Challenges
Modernising the interface Funding Codebase is large and ageing Moving from closed to open
project Competition: cycle planning
less niche Going global!
Cyclescape: campaigner toolkit
kbrumann, http://cycle.st/p14131
Helping campaigners get more people cycling, more often
Cycling offers many solutions to transport problems – efficient, cheap, healthy, no CO2.
UK (2% rate) vs Netherlands (30%)
CycleStreets Photomap
Fixing cycle-unfriendly streets
Needs local pressure through campaigning
Voluntary groups – lack of time, knowledge, etc.
Typical problems of campaigning
Lots of issues, hard to keep track of
E-mail lists broken technology: all/nothing, off-topic
No usable archive of discussions
Hard to match people with locations
Hard to prioritise when lots of issues
Poor categorisation
Typical problems of campaigning
Miss planning applications
Hard to get new people involved
Guidance and official rules hard to find
Data like collisions needed
Easy to miss deadlines
HIGH BARRIERTO INVOLVEMENT
Members watch areas
Subscribed when issues added
Discuss, in geographical context
Propose solutions
Cyclescape aims to tackle these
Members watch areas
Subscribed when issues added
Discuss, in geographical context
Propose solutions
Cyclescape aims to tackle these
www.cyclescape.org
Features designed for groups
Collision data www.cyclestreets.net/collisions
Planning applications
Planning applications
Site live, feature in place
Usability work and finishing-off
Anyone know where wecan get £15k ?
blog.cyclescape.org
Where are we now?