How Good Is Open Bicycle Infrastructure Data? A Countrywide Case Study of Denmark
arXiv:2312.02632 · doi:10.1111/gean.12400
Abstract
Cycling is a key ingredient for a sustainability shift of Denmark's transportation system. To increase cycling rates, a better nationwide network of bicycle infrastructure is required. Planning such a network requires high-quality infrastructure data, however, the quality of bicycle infrastructure data is severely understudied. Here, we compare Denmark's two largest open data sets on dedicated bicycle infrastructure, OpenStreetMap (OSM) and GeoDanmark, in a countrywide data quality assessment, asking whether data is good enough for network-based analysis of cycling conditions. We find that neither of the data sets is of sufficient quality, and that data set conflation is necessary to obtain a complete dataset. Our analysis of the spatial variation of data quality suggests that rural areas are more likely to suffer from problems with data completeness. We demonstrate that the prevalent method of using infrastructure density as a proxy for data completeness is not suitable for bicycle infrastructure data, and that matching of corresponding features thus is necessary to assess data completeness. Based on our data quality assessment we recommend strategic mapping efforts towards data completeness, consistent standards to support comparability between different data sources, and increased focus on data topology to ensure high-quality bicycle network data.
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