Vancouver Critical Mass
Fw: cycling route planner - feedback requested
>>Students -
>>
>>I'd like to ask for your help. As part of a research project designed to
>>understand the relationship between infrastructure and decisions to
>>bicycle as a mode of transportation, we have created an interactive
>>web-based bicycle route planner for the Metro Vancouver area. Users can
>>select in a familiar interface origins and destinations and choose to
>>prioritize routes by a number of criteria (shortest, least elevation
>>change, greenest routes, etc.). We are about to publicly launch the tool
>>but would like to conduct some additional testing and would appreciate
>>your help - especially with regard to specific routings determined by our
>>algorithm. The site is located at
>>http://gis.soeh.ubc.ca/cycling/defaultMN.aspx and comments/feedback
>>should be sent to
>><mailto:cycling.planner.updates@gmail.com>cycling.planner.updates@gmail.com
>>
>>Thanks in advance for your help. Feel free to forward to others.
>>
>>
>>Michael Brauer
>>Professor, School of Environmental Health
>>The University of British Columbia
>>2206 East Mall, Vancouver BC V6T1Z3 Canada
>>tel. 604 822 9585
>>fax. 604 822 9588
>>email: brauer@interchange.ubc.ca
>>
>>www.soeh.ubc.ca
>>
>>I'd like to ask for your help. As part of a research project designed to
>>understand the relationship between infrastructure and decisions to
>>bicycle as a mode of transportation, we have created an interactive
>>web-based bicycle route planner for the Metro Vancouver area. Users can
>>select in a familiar interface origins and destinations and choose to
>>prioritize routes by a number of criteria (shortest, least elevation
>>change, greenest routes, etc.). We are about to publicly launch the tool
>>but would like to conduct some additional testing and would appreciate
>>your help - especially with regard to specific routings determined by our
>>algorithm. The site is located at
>>http://gis.soeh.ubc.ca/cycling/defaultMN.aspx and comments/feedback
>>should be sent to
>><mailto:cycling.planner.updates@gmail.com>cycling.planner.updates@gmail.com
>>
>>Thanks in advance for your help. Feel free to forward to others.
>>
>>
>>Michael Brauer
>>Professor, School of Environmental Health
>>The University of British Columbia
>>2206 East Mall, Vancouver BC V6T1Z3 Canada
>>tel. 604 822 9585
>>fax. 604 822 9588
>>email: brauer@interchange.ubc.ca
>>
>>www.soeh.ubc.ca
posted by VanCM Blogger @ 6/10/2008 09:38:00 am
1 Comments:
At 12:59 pm, June 13, 2008,
Oost said…
that's fantastic. btw, i heard there's going to be a roving critical mass that'll travel to each car-free festival location on june 15, 2008 (west end, commercial, main, kits), do you have any info on a start time/location?
- rob
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