Cycling in Canada has been experiencing a great boom in recent years. Yet, there was no consistent and complete way to measure cycling infrastructure, until now.
Cycling in Canada has been experiencing a great boom in recent years and a national map of cycling infrastructure is critical to allow Canadians to determine where they have access to safe and comfortable facilities and routes.
We developed Can-BICS using the most current infrastructure design guides and cycling safety evidence. The same design guides are often used by city staff to develop cycling infrastructure. Another issue was that complete and up-to-date data are not even available for all municipalities in Canada. To obtain infrastructure data that was consistent across Canada, we decided to use OpenStreetMap — a crowdsourced map of the world. Like a Wikipedia for maps, OSM is constantly being updated and improved for accuracy for commercial interests and by data enthusiasts around the world.
We found that in Canada, multi-use paths are the most common infrastructure type by length , followed by painted bike lanes . High-comfort infrastructure made up only 4.3 per cent of all detected cycling infrastructure. The dataset is open for use by other researchers and planning practitioners interested in relating cycling infrastructure to other nationally available metrics such as census data. International researchers may be interested in our methodology to develop datasets of cycling infrastructure in their own jurisdictions.
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