UMD Cycling Safety Study

The Urban Computing Lab is currently working on an NSF-funded project focused on cycling safety. We have created a website to collect cycling safety ratings from cyclists like you and we are spreading the word asking people to participate. Participation is really easy, cyclists just need to go to the website, watch as many cycling videos as they can and provide a 1-5 rating with respect to cycling safety in the video.
 
This is the link to the website:
 
www.cyclingsafety.umd.edu
 
Washington's Area Bicyclist Association (WABA) talked about the project recently in their blog:
 
http://www.waba.org/blog/2017/07/help-with-this-research-how-safe-is-this-street/

Comments

[Smedley Burkhart]

Many of the videos show essentially benign streets with dangerous door-zone bike lanes that I would never ride in. Hard to tell how they want those scored.

Also, while riding on the sidewalk is safe enough (until someone puts their umbrella in your spokes for being an anti-social hoodlum), I wouldn't do it unless I were being chased by wolves. Again, a scoring dilemma.

I was expecting some real show stoppers, like Rock Creek Pkwy or 395.