Portland biking gets some help from big data — Detours S. 2 Ep. 7

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I used to ride bikes a lot when I was a kid, then I grew up and got a car.

Go Port­land! 

The argu­ment that Stra­va has 50% com­muters, there­fore all eco­nom­ic class­es are (most­ly) rep­re­sent­ed is a fala­cy. Smart­phone pen­e­tra­tion lev­els are far from 100% of the pop­u­la­tion and they show a dis­par­i­ty between the rich and the poor. Since Stra­va needs this device to allow the loging of rides, their is an ini­tial eco­nom­ic bar­ri­er to the use of the prod­uct that the very poor can­not pass.

peo­ple who live in the USA,

I just want to point out the fact that your infra­struc­ture is worth­less , it is old and dilap­i­dat­ed and any­thing but safe . but come to the Nether­lands and see how to build roads, cycle paths , rail­ways , bridges, stations .

a look at this : Amer­i­ca is so great and mod­ern? I still think not so do some­thing about it .

Exploderende oli­etreinen in de VS

and in my city light a vast net­work of ded­i­cat­ed bike paths , you can still learn from . look , here every­thing comes together :

Spoor­zone Helmond

you’re wel­come and suc­ses with the devel­op­ment of your 2nd world country.

I was hop­ing to see some details on how they use the data to improve the city. This video does­n’t seem to add any­thing to its own pre­view version.

ory­gone

Nice track at the end 🙂 Name? 

nice­ly done, good job!

I don’t care

Why not look at all cell phones to get bike data? I under­stand that Google buys anonymized loca­tion data of cell phones in order to pop­u­late its traf­fic con­di­tions on Google Maps. It seems rel­a­tive­ly sim­ple to con­struct behav­ior pro­files (accel­er­a­tion, speed, loca­tion) to iden­ti­fy which phones are being car­ried by bikes and use that data instead of using a sub­set of peo­ple that use a par­tic­u­lar app. Can some­one check my log­ic on that?

Great exam­ple of how we can ben­e­fit from big data to improve our lives