Case Studies

Colorado Analyzes key Bike Corridors using Metro to Prioritize Investments in Infrastructure

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.

Mobility insights from crowdsourced datasets have many promising applications in bicycle and pedestrian planning.

“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.

Data on bicycling exposure, measured as the volume of bicycles, is notoriously hard to obtain. Enter Strava.

A key to accurate mapping of ridership is the availability of representative official bicycle counts; the more representative the bicycle counts the more accurate the model. But, how can we get representative bike counts?

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.

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.

Many researchers have used Strava data to analyze daily or seasonal patterns in biking to inform long-term infrastructure planning.

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.

The Strava Metro product needs to adapt to changing transportation infrastructure so the Strava Engineering team have updated the base map accordingly

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.