CRUSE to safe cycling in Ireland:
an open source methodology to support active travel
Robin Lovelaceon behalf of the CRUSE team
University of Leeds, Institute for Transport Studies
Agenda
Introduction (5 min)
Changes to CRUSE: extension work (15 min)
Testing new website (10 min)
Feedback, Q&A + discussion (30 min)
- General feedback on new site
- Feedback on the recreational outputs
- Feedback on the tourism network
Introduction
Source: National Cycle Network Scoping Study
Interactive, open, robust, national evidence
Presentation in Sligo
- We presented at the TII National Roads and Greenways Conference, September 2022
Overview: how did we get here?
What is CRUSE?
Impact of recreation: old
Impact of updated build + visualisation
Impact of recreation: new
Updates to county level statistics
- Note: number of trip to be updated
Results: trip distance/frequency/mode
Sampling cycleways as tourist trip origins/destinations
Weighted tourism potential
Trips between Counties - unjittered
Trips between Counties - jittered
Results: National cycle tourism (balanced network)
Results: National cycle tourism (fastest network)
Notes on modelling approach
identifying destinations for recreational trips
- cycleways (Greenways, EuroVelo, Sports Ireland and OSM)
- tourism nodes from Geodirectory (e.g. campsites)
- green spaces from OSM
Notes on modelling II
simulating trips to destinations
- number of trips: 5 recreational cycle trips per 100 people (from PAG Unit 13 - see link in recreational.Rmd)
- turn destinations into point layer
- assign destination weights
- intra-county and inter-county trips
routing
validation
Next steps: Phase 2
- Update to include new Census results
- New POWSCAR data available from 2023
- Updates to User Interface
- Improvements to make the contributions and additions easier
- Refactor the codebase
- Open source the codebase
- Building a community of contributors
- Training and community building
Feedback, Q&A, discussion
- Does the network in your home County look reasonable?
- Are the visualisations clear and appropriate?
- How do you envisage using the CRUSE tool in your work?
- Is anything missing?
Links
To compare old site with new site see pages at
Old site: https://cruse.bike/
New site: https://dev.cruse.bike/
CRUSE to safe cycling in Ireland: an open source methodology to support active travel Robin Lovelaceon behalf of the CRUSE team University of Leeds, Institute for Transport Studies