Quantifying the safety of cycling infrastructure in Metro Vancouver

BUT&Associates是一家加拿大交通规划和工程公司，其工作越来越多地涉及设计城市基础设施，以适应自行车等活跃的交通方式。该公司要求提供温哥华地铁自行车专用基础设施安全的最新信息，特别是在与车辆或行人设施相交的地方。然而，据估计，涉及自行车和车辆的事件只有30%被报告，其他自行车事件很少被报告。为了克服自行车安全数据方面的这一差距，Bump&Associates正在提议与维多利亚大学空间模式分析和研究(SPAR)实验室的Trisalyn Nelson博士建立新的合作伙伴关系。纳尔逊博士和SPAR实验室开发了一个网站BikeMaps.org，通过自愿提供的地理数据来捕捉骑行事件。温哥华大都会的市民已经在BikeMaps.org上进行了地图绘制，但可以通过一些额外的推广来增加参与。拟议的研究项目将使用BikeMaps.org上收集的公民数据来回答关于自行车基础设施设计的具体问题。这将包括使用空间分析工具来确定温哥华大都会自行车风险的热点。此外，经常被忽视的自行车、自行车和行人之间的碰撞，以及自行车和基础设施之间的碰撞将被审查。

Bunt & Associates is a Canadian transportation planning and engineering company whose work increasingly involves designing urban infrastructure to accommodate active transportation modes such as cycling. The company requires up to date information on the safety of cycling-specific infrastructure, especially where it intersects vehicle or pedestrian facilities, for Metro Vancouver. However, it is estimated that only 30% of incidents involving bikes and vehicles are reported, and other bike incidents are rarely reported. To overcome this gap in cycling safety data, Bunt & Associates is proposing a new partnership with Dr. Trisalyn Nelson of the Spatial Pattern Analysis and Research (SPAR) Lab at the University of Victoria. Dr. Nelson and the SPAR lab have developed a website to capture cycling incidents, BikeMaps.org, through volunteered geographic data. Mapping by citizens in Metro Vancouver is already underway on BikeMaps.org, but could use some additional promotion to increase participation. The proposed research project will use the citizen data collected on BikeMaps.org to answer specific questions on the design of cycling infrastructure. This will include using spatial analysis tools to identify hotspots of cycling risk for Metro Vancouver. In addition, the often overlooked crashes between bikes, bikes and pedestrians, and bikes and infrastructure will be examined.