A mobile sense of place: exploring a novel mixed methods user-centred approach to capturing data on urban cycling infrastructure

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Authors

  • Andreas Wesener
  • Suzanne Vallance
  • Maike Tesch
  • Sarah Edwards
  • Jillian Frater
  • Richard Moreham

The paper explores a user-centred methodology for collecting, categorising, visualising, and interpreting data on urban cycling infrastructure and related cycling events. It develops a mobile mixed methods approach combining audio, video, sensor, and geospatial data sources. The method responds to stakeholders’ feedback and related concerns about negotiating engineering, landscape and urban design, planning and policy elements in a way that addresses cyclists’ needs. It is tested in a pilot study that combines infrastructure monitoring and perception data collection on eight newly built Major Cycle Routes in Christchurch, New Zealand. Data from one Major Cycle Route is used to explore methods of data categorisation, visualisation and interpretation. Based on the results of the pilot study, the paper discusses potential methodological changes or additions. It suggests future research opportunities and potential applications of the proposed methodology to support stakeholders’ efforts to advance the planning, design and implementation of urban cycleways.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftApplied Mobilities
Jahrgang7
Ausgabenummer4
Seiten (von - bis)327-351
Anzahl der Seiten25
ISSN2380-0127
DOIs
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 02.10.2022

Bibliographische Notiz

Funding Information:
This work was supported by the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment/National Science Challenge 11 (‘Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities’) and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).

Funding Information:
This work received funding from the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment through National Science Challenge 11 (Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities). This work was supported by the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment/National Science Challenge 11 (‘Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities’) and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).

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© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

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