Research & Innovation

Bike infrastructure planning based on mobile-sourced data and anticipated route shifts

Summary:

This project will develop tools to answer critical questions towards supporting bike lanes: if we build a new bike lane, how many bikers will use and benefit from it? How does the addition of bike lanes on specific roads affect transportation accessibility? Where should we build bike lanes to best improve equitable accessibility? In the past, it has been difficult to answer these questions due to limited data on biking travel patterns, but the recent NS616 MnDOT project that estimated bike volumes from mobile-sourced data has created new opportunities to quantify bike lane benefits.

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Project Personnel:

Principal Investigator:  Michael Levin
Co-Principal Investigator:  Alireza Khani, Raphael Stern
Technical Liaison:  Victor Lund
Project Coordinator:  Chad Kooistra
Panel Members: 
    Alex Schieferdecker - City of Minneapolis
    Eli Norlander - Duluth-Superior Metropolitan Interstate Council
    Jacob Wascalus - Transit and Active Transportation
    Jimmy Shoemaker - City of St. Paul
    Jordan Kocak - Hennepin County
    Julian Fernandez-Petersen - Hennepin County
    Maria Donnelly - Traffic Engineering
    Michael Wenholz - Duluth-Superior Metropolitan Interstate Council
    Tanja Mattonen - St. Louis County Public Works - Engineer
    Tyler Krage - Dakota County