Case Studies
Colorado Analyzes Key Bike Corridors using Metro to Prioritize Investments in Infrastructure
Colorado Analyzes key Bike Corridors using Metro to Prioritize Investments in Infrastructure
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.
Evaluating and Utilizing Strava Metro Cycling Data in the Netherlands
Mobility insights from crowdsourced datasets have many promising applications in bicycle and pedestrian planning.
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.
Using Strava Data for Active Transportation Planning
Data on bicycling exposure, measured as the volume of bicycles, is notoriously hard to obtain. Enter Strava.
Using Strava Data for Active Transportation Planning (Part 2)
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.