Wednesday, 2 May 2018

Using Google Street View to estimate travel patterns in cities

(University of Cambridge) A study published today in PLOS ONE indicates that Google Street View has the potential to estimate how common cycling is in cities, and potentially other travel patterns too. The analysis of 2,000 Google Street View images from 1,000 random locations in each of 34 cities in Great Britain found strong agreement with data on cycling, and public transport and motorbike use from the 2011 census and annual Active People Survey.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science https://ift.tt/2HKy0zh

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