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The Canadian Bikeway Comfort and Safety (Can-BICS) Classification System: A Common Naming Convention for Cycling Infrastructure, Supplement 1 Index and Datasets

Description: Supplement 1 to The Canadian Bikeway Comfort and Safety (Can-BICS) Classification System: A Common Naming Convention for Cycling Infrastructure manuscript. Can-Supplement 1 (BICS_Supplement_1_10JUN2019.xlsx) lists the cycling facility names extracted from open datasets and bicycle maps from 44 municipalities across Canada. Can-BICS cycling nomenclature is applied to each of the records. Codebook for the data is given in the ReadMe.txt file. The zipped file (Can-BICS_Supplement_1_Datasets_10JUN2019.zip) contains the open datasets and cycling maps we used to create Supplement 1. Content type is GIS data and source of data is Canadian municipal open data catalogues and websites. Software used was QGIS and ArcGIS. This dataset was originally deposited in the Simon Fraser University institutional repository.
Authors: Winters, Meghan; Simon Fraser University
Zanotto, Moreno; Simon Fraser University
Butler, Gregory; Public Health Agency of Canada
Keywords: Cycling
Open data
Active transportation
Infrastructure
Field of Research: 
Social and economic geography
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Urban and regional planning
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Transport planning
Publication Date: 2019-03-14
Publisher: Federated Research Data Repository / dépôt fédéré de données de recherche
Funder: Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
URI: https://doi.org/10.25314/a0601979-cf5e-474a-921a-acbff698ed6e
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Canada
Appears in Collections:SFU Research Data

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Winters, M., Zanotto, M., Butler, G. (2019). The Canadian Bikeway Comfort and Safety (Can-BICS) Classification System: A Common Naming Convention for Cycling Infrastructure, Supplement 1 Index and Datasets. Federated Research Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.25314/a0601979-cf5e-474a-921a-acbff698ed6e