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More trail best practice thought leadership from Kelsey M Johansen, PhD applicable to Goderich to Guelph Rail Trail . Volunteer trail organizations can start the relationship building process by: Developing a short Elevator Pitch that tells the story of their trail organization in a compelling way; Building a solid Business Case for the development of their trail / expansion of their trail network; Organizing Informational Meetings with local officials and agencies where they share information about their trail organization and the plans they have to build or expand their trail network; Remember, its important to have several supporters or Local Champions (e.g., local council members, MPPs, representatives from local boards and commissions, small business owners, and local travel / tourism operators) rooting for your trail organization before making your pitch to larger governmental departments and / or subdivisions, and certainly before approaching your town council for support or granting body for funding. Hosting community-wide trail events, such as trail builds, trail maintenance days, AGMs, and on-trail events such as races or professional development days, that are open to the public, and extending specific-targeted and personalized invitations to supportive local officials and agencies, as well as established local champions; and, Identifying local, regional, provincial / territorial and federal entities whose support they need, as well as potential sources of funding, and working to establish meaningful relationships with those entities that can be formalized in co-operative MOUs (Memorandum of Understanding).

Access to trails can play a big role in the quality of life and economic well-being of a community, and there is a lot of research to prove it. Start exploring that research in Headwaters Economics' free, curated collection of nearly 200 high-quality studies that measure the wide-ranging benefits that #trails bring to communities. #outdoorrecreation #openspace https://lnkd.in/gHNgDTfv

🚴♂️🚦 Exciting Publication Alert! 🚦🚴♀️ I'm delighted to share that our latest paper has been published! Proudly co-authored with M. Baran Ulak, Karst Geurs, and Wendy Weijermars. The title of the paper is: "A methodological framework to conduct joint zone-based analysis of traffic safety and accessibility" Our study introduces a cutting-edge methodological framework that combines route choice modeling and four-step modeling to analyze both cycling safety and accessibility. This innovative approach provides a comprehensive zone-based crash risk estimation, incorporating traffic crashes with trip characteristics such as trip purpose, origin-destination, and alternative routes. Applied to the city of Utrecht, the well-known #CyclingCity in the #Netherlands, our framework offers a novel perspective on understanding the interplay between traffic safety and accessibility. A big thank you to my co-authors and everyone who supported this research journey! #CyclingSafety #UrbanMobility #TransportEquity #ResearchInnovation #AccessibilityAnalysis #UtrechtStudy

The costs and benefits of transport users are not equally distributed in cities. In this paper we explore spatial correlations between zone-based crash risks and potential job accessibility for cyclists in the city of Utrecht. We also make a methodological contribution by including multiple routes for each OD pair in accessibility modelling, avoiding biases associated with shortest path estimates. Do you want to know more, read this new paper. It is part of the PhD research of Mehrnaz Asadi!

📢 Another Exciting New Publication from Our Research Team!  🚀 In this new study, our researchers Mehrnaz Asadi, M. Baran Ulak, and Karst Geurs in collaboration with Wendy Weijermars from SWOV developed a cutting-edge methodological framework for conducting zone-based traffic safety and accessibility analyses. 📝 This innovative approach integrates route choice modelling and four-step modelling (including trip purpose, origin-destination, and alternative routes), resulting in a novel zone-based crash risk estimation that factors in traffic crashes and trip characteristics. 📊 The findings also showed the importance of considering route choice variations in accessibility analysis to avoid overestimating accessibility levels. #Accessibility #TrafficSafety #RouteChoice #Methodology Read more here 👇

Check out our new paper on sturgeon locomotion!

🚲 Research for safe road traffic Ngoc Chi Banh (A05) and Prof. Dr. Ingrid Scharlau have recently co-authered an article entitled "Safety Assistance Systems for Bicyclists: Toward Empirical Studies of the Dooring Problem". In this article, the authors develop advanced assistance systems for cyclists in order to achieve the goal of zero road deaths per year. Their research focuses on the dooring problem - when car doors are opened carelessly and endanger cyclists. By extending a virtual cycling environment with V2X (vehicle-to-everything) communication, they show how this technology can help prevent such accidents and increase road safety. Find our more abou the article:

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Quick little article I put together for North Park - NOW!

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