Bike lanes on Bloor Street: U of T partners with Miovision, City of Toronto to help evaluate pilot and track traffic safety

UTTRI Professor Matthew Roorda and masters’ student Nancy Hui are assessing the safety impact of the Bloor Street Pilot Bike Lanes Project.  Video data collected by Miovision and the City of Toronto since the opening of the bike lanes last August will be analyzed for “conflicts.”  Researchers hope that the new analytical techniques used will prove to be useful to cities evaluating streetscape changes. The City of Toronto plans to have a detailed Bloor Pilot Bike Lanes evaluation report published and presented to City Council in the fall of 2017. Reported by UofT News, January 12, 2017 …read more >>