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THE CYCLETRACKS SMARTPHONE APPLICATION

CycleTracks uses your smartphone's GPS support to record your bicycle trips, display maps of your rides, and help transportation planners make San Francisco a better place to bike. At the end of each trip, data representing your trip purpose, route, and the date and time are sent to the San Francisco County Transportation Authority (all personally identifiable data will be kept confidential*). By using CycleTracks, you'll be helping San Francisco's transportation planners better understand the needs of cyclists—and you'll get to see maps and statistics of your rides.

We'll use the real-time data we collect to improve the bicycle-use component of our computer model SF-CHAMP (San Francisco Chained Activity Modeling Process) to better predict where cyclists will ride and how land developments and transportation infrastructure will affect cycling in our community.

SF-CHAMP is the official travel-forecasting tool for transportation planning in San Francisco, a state-of-the-art model that predicts future travel patterns within the Bay Area.

CycleTracks uses the iPhone and Android's GPS support to track users’ bicycle trip routes. It's simple to use: tap Start to start recording your ride, Save at the end, and specify a purpose (commuting, shopping, exercise, etc.). Data representing the purpose, route, date and time are sent to the Transportation Authority’s servers. (All personally identifiable data will be kept confidential.* Users can cancel a trip at any time for any reason and no data will be sent unless explicitly directed by the user.)

Think of it as a travel survey that asks you why and where you are riding, but automatically maps your route rather than asking you to write it down from memory.

Download CycleTracks from the App Store℠ or from the Android Market app on your phone. The iPhone version of CycleTracks is a mopimp production. Both versions of the app are funded in part by a Caltrans planning grant.