The Bicla-R is a project that aims to develop a metropolitan evidence-base and transport planning online tool to prioritize investments in active transport, in order to uptake cycling levels in the 18 municipalities of the Metropolitan Region of Lisbon. It is funded by Transportes Metropolitanos de Lisboa.

 

Planning of the infrastructure needed to change mobility patterns requires high-quality evidence. Data and models are needed to ensure cost-effective investment, enabling new infrastructure to be planned where it is most needed. In the case of cycling, the transport mode that has the greatest potential to replace unnecessary and unhealthy short car trips into urban centres, this means designing efficient cycleways and safe street connections. The Bicla-R aggregates official information and models bike usage scenarios, to inform decision-makers of which infrastructures have the greatest potential impact in changing behavior, and assist planners to meet sustainability commitments

 

Bicla-R aims to use open data and tools, and make available the outcome tool in a public website for planners, practitioners and general audience, as well as a public source code repository of the tool and its manuals.

 

 

This project will boost the research network and bilateral collaboration between the U-Shift lab of CERIS (Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability) of Instituto Superior Técnico and the ITS (Institute for Transport Studies) of University of Leeds, gathering Rosa Félix, Robin Lovelace, and Filipe Moura.