CycleStreets is a route planning tool for cyclists that considers infrastructure quality and cyclist preferences. It often recommends alternative routes to driving routes since cycling routes can differ, taking into account factors like hills, path widths, barriers and the quality and legibility of infrastructure. Community mapping on CycleStreets and OpenStreetMap allows for collection of local knowledge about cycling conditions.

1. Mobile wayfindingMobile wayfinding
- CycleStreets- CycleStreets
Cycle journey planning, for cyclists, by cyclists

2. About CycleStreets

3. Cycle route finding…
 Often an alternative
network
 Often different to
driving routes
 Barrier for new people
 Depends on
infrastructure quality

4. Infrastructure very variable
 Warrington’s “Cycle Facility of the Month”, http://cycle.st/p11500

5. Cyclist preferences in UK
 Quiet route – less confident / pleasant route
 Fast route – more confident person
 Balanced route – practical, best-of-both route

6. “What would a cyclist do
here?”
 Road/street type
 Hills and inclines
 Cycle infrastructure
 Path widths/quality
 Barriers, obstructions
 Land ownership
 Surface quality

7. “What would a cyclist do
here?”
 Route legibility
 National signed routes
 Local Authority signage
 Lighting
 Safety history (collisions)?
 Turn delays
 Local knowledge!

8. Community
mapping
www.cyclestreets.net/getmapping/guide/

9. OpenStreetMap

10. OpenStreetMap
CycleStreets data interrogation

11. Martin Lucas-Smith,
www.CycleStreets.net
Twitter: @cyclestreets
info@cyclestreets.net