Here’s a link to the paper if you have trouble accessing it.
For those curious, the company (INRO) that makes EMME transportation modelling software had access to information regarding Winnipeg’s network for several years, (I believe Winnipeg’s network is still used as a demo in EMME). The modelled
network, plus data on bike use from Census data would allow the network to be studied as outlined in the paper.
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Hi,
I stumbled across this paper while researching prioritization of bicycle network segments, and thought I'd pass it along. It's not like there are a lot of papers based on Winnipeg's bike network, so this piqued
my interest. I'm really not sure what the connection to Winnipeg is, as there doesn't seem to even be a Canadian University attached to the paper, let alone a Winnipeg institution.
The paper discusses a model that was created to estimate bike flows in Winnipeg and compare different ways of estimating the route choice of people on bike. They use shortest path, what they term "route cognition",
and Bicycle Level of Service as criteria to assign trips from an origin destination model.
I'm not sure how the origin-destination trip tables were attained; maybe through the WATS study, but maybe generated through Space Syntax methodology. The latter seems lilley as I gather that Space Syntax
involves dividing the city into smaller zones that are understandable at a personal level. It seems similar to cycle zone analysis.
The "route cognition" criteria is new to me, but essentially seems to be related to how easy it is to understand a route. The more turns, the harder to understand, and the less attractive. It seems to come
out of "Space Syntax", which is also new to me. I find it to be an interesting criteria.
For Bicycle Level of Service (BLOS), they seem to have calculated BLOS for every road segment and intersection based on methods from the Highway Traffic Manual (HTM).
Cheers,
Mark Cohoe
Executive Director
Bike Winnipeg
t: 204-894-6540