BikeCuriousNYC.com

Crowd Sourced City Final PresentationChristina Ghan, Allison Greenberg, Ben Huff, Eugenia Manwelyan, Megan Cassidy

Our Partner & Our Mission

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•Core Mission: Increase bike safety and ridership

•Guiding Idea: Midtown Manhattan is a notoriously unsafe and intimidating space to ride a bike. If Midtown can be transformed into a bicycle-commuting hub, the rest of the City will quickly follow suit.

•Implementation Project: Bike-Networking Website

Implementation Process

Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3

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Implementation ProcessBroadway Green Alliance: Data Gathering and Focus Group

Background Research Broadway Green Alliance

• Initial Biking Survey• Bike Focus Week – Latitude

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Implementation ProcessWebsite Design and

Implementation

• Profile Creation• Route Mapping

• Manual Input• Upload KML

• Ability to look at other people’s routes• Initial Route Rating• Twitter Feed

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Website Creation

Intro Implementation Process Website Data Analysis Next Steps

Intro Implementation Process Website Data Analysis Next Steps

Intro Implementation Process Website Data Analysis Next Steps

Intro Implementation Process Website Data Analysis Next Steps

Website Creation – Challenges/Lessons Learned

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Intro Implementation Process Website Data Analysis Next Steps

Intro Implementation Process Website Data Analysis Next Steps

Website Creation - Crowdsourcing

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• Who is our crowd?

• What information do we want from them?

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Intro Implementation Process Website Data Analysis Next Steps

Broadway Green Alliance

• Quantitative: next slides• Qualitative

– Novice riders interested in “bike buddies”

– Veteran riders are less interested in riding with others

– Lots of infrastructure, but not much info on where

– Geography can influence riding decisions

– Most had set route that they take, influenced by a combo of safety and time efficiency

Website

• Limited information so far

• Lack of incentive to create routes on the site

• Need critical mass

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Data Analysis

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Broadway Green Alliance Commutes Into Midtown

InwoodWashington HeightsTremontUpper West SideAstoriaHell’s KitchenChelseaWeehawkenUnion SquareEast VillageAlphabet CityGreenpointFort GreenePark SlopeWindsor Terrace

Broadway Green Alliance Commutes Into Midtown

Broadway Green Alliance Commutes Into Midtown

Next Steps

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Next Steps

Intro Implementation Process Website Data Analysis Next Steps

Next Steps

Intro Implementation Process Website Data Analysis Next Steps

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