Cycling Infrastructure Scenario Builder Tool
Coming soon.
The Cycling Infrastructure Scenario Builder is a web-based interactive decision support tool that is designed to facilitate the planning of cycling infrastructure. The tool enables users to test various cycling infrastructure scenarios on digital maps and estimate cycling uptake resulting from hypothetical new cycling infrastructure. The tool incorporates a wide range of cycling-related spatial maps and data layers to provide contextual information and that allow researchers, planners and organisations to visualise data, identify gaps and opportunities in cycling networks to better serve existing and potential cyclists.
This tool adopts a data-oriented approach in modelling and estimating the potential effect of hypothetical cycling infrastructure. Estimates of cycling uptake is produced by a discrete choice model, which was calibrated using data from recent cycling surveys conducted as part of this project in Greater Brisbane, Greater Melbourne, Greater Perth (2025) and Greater Sydney (2022 and 2025). The discrete choice model predicts how individual level cycling participation would change in response to changes in cycling infrastructure and improvement in access to points-of-interest (POIs). This model is combined with a synthetic population model of each city in order to predict cycling participation.
This tool has a wide range of applications. Existing data layers allow the visualisation of existing cycling infrastructure, existing cycling behaviours and natural and built environment characteristics that influence cycling. Existing crash data can be used to identify problem areas and help identify safety hazards. The scenario tool enables the planning of strategic cycling networks, testing and evaluation of proposed facilities from local or state government plans, identification of health and economic benefits of cycling infrastructure provision, and prioritisation of cycling infrastructure projects. A streamlined batch-processing mode allows rapid testing of a large number of infrastructure scenarios, saving time and resources for users of this tool. The tool synthesises cycling related data from various sources within a single platform, and can also be useful for training and educational purposes. The tool is designed to be extensible to enable new data layers, new transport modes such as walking, and new jurisdictions outside the current range as the NCDAP platform evolves.
The link to the tool will be available soon.