Bike Data Project Meetup: let's talk about open cycling data

Our meetup will take place here: https://meet.openknowledge.be/user/dri-v9n-uit-ibr

With the Bike Data Project, Open Knowledge Belgium vzw/asbl is launching a community-driven platform that collects data about where and when people cycle. In collaboration with Brussels Mobility and Minister Elke Van Den Brandt, there's a crowdsourcing campaign running in Brussels in October-November in which cyclists use mobile apps to collect and share the data of their bike rides on www.bikedataproject.org. The platform aims to collect GPS data from cyclists and make the anonymous aggregated data available as open data.

On Tuesdays 13 October, 27 October and 10 November, we'd like to invite you as a cyclist, data analyst, mobility planner, city planner, activist or journalist to join us during our Bike Data Project, where we want to discuss the opportunities of a more bicycle-friendly city with open data.

This is what we will do on November 13th: let's put our ideas together to make Brussel more bicycle-friendly and talk about open cycling data!

What will we do?
During this Data Dive event, we will both exchange ideas on how we can build a more bicycle-friendly city with open data and discuss how we can have more impact with the Bike Data Project in Brussels.

Where is the event taking place?
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this meetup will take place online.

Do I need a technical profile to come?
Absolutely not! Just your ambition to make Brussels better for cyclists.

What's the schedule? [provisional]
18:30: Welcome followed by introductions
18:45: Presentation about the Bike Data Project
19:00: Brainstorming & discussion on how we can build a more bicycle-friendly city with open data.

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Short description Bike Data Project

Little is known about how cyclists move around in cities today. If there’s data available, it’s closed and restricted data sold by one single app provider or static data collected through manual counts. If we want to have more people cycling in cities and make the bicycle as easy and logical to opt for as the car, we also need to get the same data insights into cyclists’ behavior as we do have about car transport.

To make the Bike Data Project work we ask for a simple favor from the cycling community. We ask different types of cyclists (e.g. commuters, delivery riders, sportsmen and tourists) to track their bicycle rides via their preferred mobile application and donate their data to our community-driven bike data platform. Some people already track their activity for training purposes. That’s great but we also really want to take into account the short routes like commuting to work or just taking a quick ride to the grocery store. In return, the anonymous aggregated cycling data will be opened up to the public and can be freely used by anyone. The collective data gives us patterns we can use to demonstrate our cause.