San Luis Obispo boasts one of the most ambitious bike policies of any small city in America. To reach its lofty goals, the city needs robust bicycle traffic analytics to guide its infrastructure investments. …

When Indiana’s Madison County set out to update its long-range bike plan in 2015, good data on cycling was hard to come by. A region of small towns and farmland anchored by the city of Anderson, the county had no bicycle count program. …

While transportation departments have become experts at measuring car traffic, most agencies don’t have a good grip on bike traffic. Strava Metro can change that. Colorado DOT is utilizing Strava Metro to classify state roads with high levels of bike traffic. That information is helping the agency prioritize maintenance resources…

The Metro team is often asked if the folks logging commute trips on Strava are representative of average bike commuters. After all, our community contains some professional athletes and cycling enthusiasts as well as commuters. Several studies comparing electronic bike counters to Strava Metro data have shown a strong correlation…

This post originally written by Patty Gude, at Headwaters Economics “How many people are using our trails? And what do our trails do for our local economy?” These were the questions that Whitefish Legacy Partners, a non-profit organization that works to preserve opportunities for conservation and recreation around the town…

In 2007, the city of Seattle created its first Bicycle Master Plan, and it laid out an aggressive goal: to triple ridership in 10 years. …

Queensland, Australia is a global leader in sustainable transportation, both in its commitment to building safe, direct, and connected bicycling routes, and in its use of smart data to help plan, build, and analyze cycling and pedestrian infrastructure. Queensland’s efforts in this area go back a long time, but since…

Get up, go to work, come home, repeat. This is the reality for the vast majority of the adult population. But it’s not the entire reality. In today’s adult world, there is an increasing demand to be defined by what you do to make money, rather than by what you…

It’s actually a problem with UberX If you live in a big-ish city, you’ve probably noticed an ever growing chorus of people taking to Twitter to complain about their horrible Uber experience. From the sound of things, you’d think that Uber drivers had suddenly forgotten how to drive, navigate, and even how to be courteous. The…