ChallengeDCA with Direcció General d'Infraestructes de Mobilitat (DGIM)
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Challenge 1. Provide reliable and complete information about the cycling network in Catalonia (GeoBike)
Goal of the challenge
The aim of the first challenge is to provide an official and reliable source of the georeferenced routes of cycling routes in Catalonia and related services. This challenge is part of the Catalan Bicycle Strategy, which aims to promote the use of bicycles as an active and sustainable method of transport, both for everyday mobility and for leisure, sport and tourism.
Challenge's description
Currently, there is no tool that reliably unifies information on the cycling road network so that it can be consulted by cycling users of the mobility infrastructure in Catalonia.
The different viewers and query platforms aggregate open data from the different public administrations in order to offer cycling-friendly route planning. However, this data often lacks optimal consistency because each administration offers it according to their own definition standards (shared street, 30 km/h zone, two-way bike lane, one-way bike lane, cycling path or trail, etc.). This means that in many cases, the current viewers propose routes where there is no specific infrastructure for cycling, and/or they divert the itinerary through streets or roads where private vehicles also circulate. Therefore, vulnerable cyclist users are exposed to unsafe routes and roads to which their access is prohibited.
This need is reflected in the actions 37, 56.1 and 56.2 of the Catalan Bicycle Strategy.
Therefore, this call opens up the following main lines of work:
- Define a standard, that is, the document of digitization criteria and attribute definition that is common to all official data publication sources in Catalonia, which can correctly translate all open data on routes for cyclists.
- Propose a georeferenced viewer-mode digital platform that can offer passable and reliable routes for cyclists, indicating the type of road, and ideally informing about the level of difficulty/safety according to the type of route and road. The cyclist should be able to use it in planning their route and during its use.
Catalog of georeferenced content:
- Cycling infrastructure: urban and interurban with attributes about their technical (type of cycling route, degree of segregation -specific/shared-, longitudinal slope, travel time, etc.) and functional characteristics (usage: daily mobility, recreational/touristic, sports, mixed; network topology: basic, secondary, capillary; operation: incidents, works).
- Cycling itineraries: identification of official specific itineraries or routes (identified, signaled or promoted as such) of short, medium or long range.
- Associated services: public transport services that accept bicycle transport, secure parking, bike rental or sharing services, public transport, bike-friendly restaurant and accommodation services, bicycle rental and repair points, and tourist and cultural spots.
Data must be accessible through different multi-platform applications, as indicated below, and that preferably integrable with other existing applications.
- Web with linked information on maps and associated information.
- Open data and web services for downloading or connecting for other applications and uses.
- Map web viewer: infrastructure, routes and services.
- Route planner.
- En route navigator.
- Virtual tour.
These are the available data related to the cycling uses that they would like to provide services for:
- Daily cycling – proximity urban and interurban journeys
Ajuntament de Barcelona (viewer, open data, route planner), Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona (viewer, healthy route planner, AMB route planner app), Generalitat de Catalunya-ATM (mou-te route planner), RACC-App CityTrips.
- Bicycle touring or discovery cycling – greenways and bicycle touring routes: Agència Catalana de Turisme de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Consorci de Vies Verdes de Girona (viewer, services and track), Fundación de Ferrocarriles Españoles (viewer and map).
- Road cycling sports – bicycle touring and road cycling: Catalunya.com and Shared road signaling map.
According to the above, a design of the architecture must be developed, taking into account at least the following aspects:
- Data source: town councils, other local entities, Generalitat de Catalunya.
- Data office: graph of the cycling infrastructure, with LRS and routing, query and edition, other databases.
- External applications: web with information, open data with web services, viewer, route planner, etc.
You can expand the information of this challenge through the following explanatory video
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