Case Studies
Using Strava Metro Data to Improve Pima County’s Urban Trail — The Chuck Huckelberry Loop
Pima County, located in Tucson, Arizona, has been utilizing a variety of data sources, including ten permanent counter stations and crowdsourced data from Strava Metro, to gain a comprehensive understanding of the trail’s usage patterns.
Mapping Bicycling Ridership Across the Sydney Metropolitan Area with Strava Data
The Strava Metro platform, called Metroview, provides bicycle and pedestrian trip counts for each road segment, accessible in hourly, daily, monthly, and yearly trip aggregations.
Bicycle crossing on viaducts in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, increases up to 70% after installation of cycling structures
In May 2021, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, received its first two cycling infrastructures on viaducts, which seems to have positively influenced more people to cycle in such places.
Outdoor Recreation and the Economic Impact of Whitefish Trail Use in Whitefish, Montana
“How many people are using our trails? And what do our trails do for our local economy?” These were the questions that Whitefish Legacy Partners needed to answer.
Utah uses Data to Support Exciting Plan for Statewide Bike Infrastructure and Minimize Disruption to Travelers
As Utah DOT moves to institutionalize complete streets policy and standardize the consideration of active transportation in its project scoping, Strava Metro is proving essential.
Colorado Analyzes Key Bike Corridors using Metro to Prioritize Investments in Infrastructure
Colorado Analyzes key Bike Corridors using Metro to Prioritize Investments in Infrastructure
The power of multiple datasets and the insights hiding in them
There are many reasons planners like to combine Strava Metro data with their bike counter data, and one of them is to find cool insights that are hiding in your data.
Where should we locate bike counters and bike share stations? A temporal analysis using Strava data
Many researchers have used Strava data to analyze daily or seasonal patterns in biking to inform long-term infrastructure planning.
Updating the Basemap for Strava Metro
The Strava Metro product needs to adapt to changing transportation infrastructure so the Strava Engineering team have updated the base map accordingly
Metro data correlates strongly with Census commuting survey, says CDC
Research from the Centers for Disease Control shows that Strava Metro data closely resembles Census data about biking and walking activity by the general public.
The New Human-Powered Era
Across the globe, athletes have uploaded over 4 billion activities to Strava. When the community contributes their activities to Metro, they become a critical part of the world’s largest collection of human-powered transport information.
What’s New with Strava Metro
Strava Metro’s web platform, Metroview, helps partners explore trends, visualize patterns, and understand insights simply and intuitively — no technical experience required.