Research Article
CycleSafe: Safe Route Planning for Urban Cyclists
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-48513-9_26, author={Mehdi Shah and Tianqi Liu and Sahil Chauhan and Lianyong Qi and Xuyun Zhang}, title={CycleSafe: Safe Route Planning for Urban Cyclists}, proceedings={Cloud Computing, Smart Grid and Innovative Frontiers in Telecommunications. 9th EAI International Conference, CloudComp 2019, and 4th EAI International Conference, SmartGIFT 2019, Beijing, China, December 4-5, 2019, and December 21-22, 2019}, proceedings_a={CLOUDCOMP}, year={2020}, month={6}, keywords={Traffic data fusion and analytics Mobile computing Cloud services}, doi={10.1007/978-3-030-48513-9_26} }- Mehdi Shah
Tianqi Liu
Sahil Chauhan
Lianyong Qi
Xuyun Zhang
Year: 2020
CycleSafe: Safe Route Planning for Urban Cyclists
CLOUDCOMP
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-48513-9_26
Abstract
Cyclist numbers in major cities are constantly increasing whilst traffic conditions continue to worsen. This poses a major issue for cyclists who attempt to share congested roads with motor vehicles. This paper shows that there is not enough work being done to improve the safety of cyclists on the road, and proposes a solution to this problem in the form of a route planning application. Current cyclist route planning applications do not take safety factors like traffic, rain or visibility into account when providing cycle routes. We use Auckland city as a case study to explore our solution. The traffic and weather data in Auckland are acquired by using Google, Bing and Wunderground APIs. An evaluation of our solution shows that our system successfully implements a route planning application that routes users away from unsafe traffic conditions, thus improving cyclist safety.
