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+Squiggly Bicycle Routes
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+
+:status: hidden
+:date: 2024-10-16
+:collaborators: Ted Beuhler, Mont Hubbard
+:current_researchers:
+:past_researchers: Sietse Soethout
+:research_theme: Bicycle Engineering
+:template: project
+:summary-sentence: We have developed a simulation model that predicts travel
+                   time and energy costs for a bicyclist traveling over an
+                   arbitrary route accounting for elevation changes, bicycle
+                   type, rider physiology, traffic signals, and yielding.
+:summary-image: https://objects-us-east-1.dream.io/mechmotum/squiggly-400x400.png
+:slug: research/squiggly-routes
+
+.. figure:: https://objects-us-east-1.dream.io/mechmotum/direct-vs-squiggly.png
+   :width: 600px
+   :align: center
+
+   Direct and squiggly routes have time and energy costs for bicyclists.
+
+Description
+===========
+
+Bicyclists choose routes at least partially based on the travel time and the
+energy required to traverse the route [Winters2010]_. Grade changes, wind, stop
+signs, traffic signal timing, rough pavement, undulations, etc. all contribute
+to the time and energy costs [Broach2012]_. Urban planners and civil engineers
+design infrastructure and routes for bicyclists that have specific time and
+energy costs associated with them. In fact, automobile routes and
+infrastructure often have more preferable time and energy costs than the
+parallel bicycle routes and infrastructure. These bicycle routes are quite
+squiggly and are not optimizing the convenience of the bicyclists over the
+automobile drive. Using simple physics-based simulations, existing and future
+routes and infrastructure designs can be evaluated for time and energy costs.
+This puts a clear quantitative numbers to important aspects of the convenience
+of bicycling.
+
+Products
+========
+
+Theses
+
+- S. S. Soethout, "A dynamic utility cycling model for energy and time
+  expenditure calculation of a population of cyclists," Delft University of
+  Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 2024.
+  https://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ae45c43e-8eb1-4256-b7c2-e290f1260def
+
+Presentations
+
+- `2019 Squiggly Routes COSMOS Workshop Slides <https://tinyurl.com/squiggly-cosmos2019>`_
+- `2012 Velocity Presentation Slides
+  <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vQtgEHSrHu0HobIaReFllvckTnCiYCkpZS-kqQx5jhJXQu3nz907JDoO3UGckoiT5_1nAFsW6K0fEtq/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000>`_
+
+Software
+
+- Software from the 2012 work: https://github.com/moorepants/EfficientRoutes
+
+Media
+=====
+
+The following video shows a single simulation along a route in The Hague, The
+Netherlands:
+
+.. raw:: html
+
+   <center>
+   <video width="800px" controls>
+     <source src="https://objects-us-east-1.dream.io/mechmotum/hs_noi_tunnel_single.mp4" type="video/mp4">
+     Your browser does not support the video tag.
+   </video>
+   </center>
+
+The next video shows a population of cyclists riding the route:
+
+.. raw:: html
+
+   <center>
+   <video width="800px" controls>
+     <source src="https://objects-us-east-1.dream.io/mechmotum/all_animation_hs_noi_normal_all_fast.mp4" type="video/mp4">
+     Your browser does not support the video tag.
+   </video>
+   </center>
+
+References
+==========
+
+.. [Winters2010] M. Winters, K. Teschke, M. Grant, E. M. Setton, and M. Brauer,
+   "How Far Out of the Way Will We Travel?: Built Environment Influences on
+   Route Selection for Bicycle and Car Travel," Transportation Research Record:
+   Journal of the Transportation Research Board, vol. 2190, no. 1, pp. 1–10,
+   Jan. 2010, doi: 10.3141/2190-01.
+.. [Broach2012] J. Broach, J. Dill, and J. Gliebe, "Where do cyclists ride? A
+   route choice model developed with revealed preference GPS data,"
+   Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, vol. 46, no. 10, pp.
+   1730–1740, Dec. 2012, doi: 10.1016/j.tra.2012.07.005.