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National study offers new bike count models: Combining traditional counters and emerging GPS data

Posted: 15 Jul 2022 05:50 AM PDT

To ensure bicyclists' needs are considered when improving a transportation system, planners and engineers need to know how many people are biking, and where. Traditional bike counters provide data for limited sections of the bike network, often these counters are installed at important locations like trails or bridges. While limited in location, they count everyone who bikes through. Meanwhile, GPS & mobile data cover the entire transportation network, but that data only represents those travelers who are using smartphones or GPS. Combining the traditional location-based data sources with this new, crowdsourced data offer better accuracy than any could provide alone.

One-hit wonder: How awards, recognition decrease inventors' creativity

Posted: 14 Jul 2022 01:58 PM PDT

New research has identified one reason why some first-time producers struggle to repeat their initial creative productions while others go on to continually produce creative works.

Framework for prioritizing investment in drinking water systems

Posted: 13 Jul 2022 12:28 PM PDT

Researchers have published a study that aims to assist state and local water authorities in making decisions about where to prioritize funding for infrastructure improvements on drinking water lead service line replacement programs.