Google Earth presents insights drawn from Google Maps trend data on trip segments completed by bicycle, allowing users to visualise and understand how our cities move.
A newly introduced cycling trip percentage layer turns everyday rides into data, showing how often people move by bike globally.
The tool provides cycling trends to transportation and urban planners who can use it to prioritise cycling investments across a city or region.
Visualisation is the key innovation in this integration, as it allows users to zoom out and see cycling as a living system, revealing where biking thrives, where infrastructure is growing, where congested intersections are located,…
Just as MegaBITS supports, cycling data proves to be a concrete solution to inform the local governments on potential infrastructure improvements or dangerous hotspots, contributing to safer cycling. More than this, data also enhances the relevance of cycling as a mode of transport, helping to dedicate funds to its support.
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