From Unlock15
Short description
"We can’t reduce the speed limit on this road because the busses would loose time!“ This or similar arguments may come up in discussions about street transformations. In those situations, it can help to bring evidence into the discussion. For example by measuring the speed of busses. Think in advance how to make your data collection as valid as possible within your ressources. To produce solid evidence about the speed of public transport we suggest the following steps:
- Make a plan how you will collect your data: What do you want to measure (one busline in both directions between bus stop X and Y), when (on peak/off peak, which days) and how often (how many times per day)
- Install an App that collects GPX-Tracks (data that links speed with location)
- Ride the busses according to your data collection plan
- Find someone who knows how to use QGIS (open source program for making maps) and install the plug-in for GPX Segment importer (https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/GpxSegmentImporter/#plugin-about)
- If everything works out the result should be maps like the ones you see here.
- Think about how you want to communicate the data: In a confidential setting or rather to a bigger audience?
Unlock-hypothesis
With the right communication strategy, evidence about the speed of vehicles can change people's opinions about speed limits.
Lock-in Layers
institutional
Lock-in Cluster
Personal and Social Beliefs
Challenges
Slow bureaucratic processes
Link for further information about the tool
Link to tool materials
Level of effort for application
high
Skill level needed for application
high
Suitable spatial context
district
Spatial limitation
no
Visualisation
Tool type
Evidence
Toolbox user types
NGOs/ local interest groups
LLL-Application
Vienna
Languages
deutsch