{"id":13270,"date":"2020-02-05T11:54:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T10:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wecity.it\/en\/?p=13270"},"modified":"2020-02-05T15:20:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T14:20:22","slug":"mappe-urbane-avanzate-visualizzare-flusso-ciclisti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wecity.it\/en\/bici-en\/mappe-urbane-avanzate-visualizzare-flusso-ciclisti\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualizing cycling in urban areas: an “ad hoc” approach"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From 1st April to 31st October 2019, the second edition of the \u201cCambiamo Marcia\u201d<\/a> Project organised by the City of Cesena Council took place, and over 300 citizens were able to claim an incentive of \u20ac 0.25 per kilometre for cycling to work.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Council’s aim was twofold: on one hand, it wanted to spread the good practice of active mobility; on the other, it aimed to collect quantitative information<\/strong> on the routes most frequented by cyclists, and visualize them on shareable online maps.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a technology partner in the project, Wecity was already able to record and validate the routes taken by users.<\/span><\/p>\n

The second objective, however, presented a series of significant difficulties which, given our propensity to complicate our lives, we immediately found irresistible :-)<\/span><\/p>\n

In this post, we describe how we created some of the visualizations we made available to the Council.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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The first obstacle:\u00a0map-matching<\/strong><\/p>\n

When you have GPS data for different routes, the most common approach is to draw maps like the one below.<\/span><\/p>\n

By directly plotting the raw data (obviously anonymised), hundreds of lines can be obtained that provide qualitative information on the number of trips in a given period of time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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