Our White label sites system allows organisations and companies to embed an active travel route planner into their websites easily. You can see some examples of the system in use at these sites: Suffolk On Board – Dare to explore Cumbria Travel Actively – journey planner Ways Around The Bay (Morecambe Bay) – Plan your […]
Photomap upgrade
Our Photomap provides a way to share images of cycle infrastructure, whether to point out good practice or to flag up a problem. Around 150,000 images have now been added by our users, providing an incredible resource. We’ve reworked the Photomap pages to make it quicker and easier to add new images. Previously the system […]
Protecting creative rights from AI theft
The UK government has been consulting on changing copyright rules to allow copying of creative works by AI companies. We have responded to the consultation, arguing – like many – that creators’ rights must be respected. Over the last year we have directly experienced the problems caused by AI bots. Our Photomap contains almost 150,000 […]
Journey planner for Ways around the Bay
Morecambe Bay Partnership has launched a brand-new, interactive route planning website called Ways Around The Bay designed to get locals and visitors exploring the beauty of Morecambe Bay in low-carbon ways. WaysAroundTheBay.org.uk is a resource for those who want to walk, cycle or head out on a wheelchair or all-terrain mobility scooter with a route […]
Batch (matrix) routing
Our routing has been used in a range of academic and transport planning projects. Because our routing aims to emulate as close as possible the route that a knowledgeable cyclist would take, creating a matrix of route results between sets of Origin<>Destination (OD) pairs facilitates various interesting statistical analyses of the quality of cycle infrastructure […]
Mapping modal filters and LTNs
Modal filters – measures such as bollards, gates, cycle contraflows, etc., are important ways to prevent motor traffic passing through residential areas. They have been much in the news recently, but are in fact very common, and have been in existence since at least the 1980s. However, there is no national mapping data on where […]
Dublin Region Active Travel Challenge
We’re proud to announce that, not one, but two of our new projects are finalists in the Active Travel Challenge being run by Smart Dublin. Smart Dublin brings together technology providers, academia and citizens to transform public services and enhance quality of life. The Challenge showcases how open data can be used to support and […]
R interface to CycleStreets routing
We’re pleased to announce the availability of a new CycleStreets R package that enables easy access to our routing API. It enables R programmers to calculates cyclable routes in a reproducible command line interface, and obtain detailed metadata, e.g. quietness, elevation change, etc. Quietness values within a route. See an interactive version of this map, […]
ActDev – Active travel in new developments
We’ve been working recently with Leeds University on a new project, ActDev – Active travel in new developments. The aim of the 4 month ActDev project, which was funded by UKRI, was to demonstrate what is possible with new datasets and methods to help people working in the planning system to support walking and cycling […]
Streetvisions – Widen My Path phase 2
Last year we created Widen My Path, enabling members of the public to say where improvements to streets are needed in order to facilitate physical distancing and increasing levels of walking & cycling. As we reported, it has seen over 238,000 user submissions (combined new points and likes), over 400 spreadsheet data downloads (plus more […]