Bicycle Network - Super Tuesday Commuter Bike Counts (Points) 2010-2018

This dataset contains cycling volume, movement flow and demographic data for the 'Super Tuesday' Commuter Bike Count event over the years 2010 to 2018. The counts are presented as individual points which relate to the location where the counts were visually undertaken by volunteers. The data covers the following Local Government Areas (LGAs):

Alice Springs

Boroondara

Brimbank

Katherine

Melbourne

Monash

Moonee Valley

Moreland

Palmerston

Tennant Creek

Whitehorse

Yarra

The 'Super Tuesday' counters collect data from intersections along popular commuter routes, as well as subsidiary routes with lower rider volumes. Bicycle Network coordinates the count at locations nominated by traffic engineers, transport planners, and other transport officers from participating councils. The counts were conducted by volunteer counters who record all movements, gender of riders and their observations in fifteen minute time intervals on standardised count sheets. Bicycle Network's 'Super Counts' programs count the volumes of bicycles and other active travellers, and their movements on roads and paths. The Super Counts program comprises two counting events: 'Super Tuesday' commuter count and the 'Super Sunday' recreation count. Super Tuesday is a two-hour count conducted during a Tuesday morning peak period in March (7-9am); Super Sunday is a four-hour count conducted during a Sunday morning-afternoon period in November (9-1pm). For more information please visit Bicycle Network Bike Counts. Bicycle counts help track progress, and identify areas of improvement to inform active transport policy with the goal of making it easier for more people to choose active modes everyday. The data is available for researchers and policymakers to plan and build cycling infrastructure to promote increased cycling activity, and to gather longitudinal insights of cycling volumes and trends. AURIN has converted dates to ISO 8601 format, and have spatially enabled this dataset by creating geometries from the latitude and longitude columns with PostGIS.