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Bicycle handlebar sensor
WSSTL 2025

he inaugural World Engage Citizens”. The three to prevent collisions
Symposium on Sustainable keynotes conclude on June 27 esearchers at the University of
TTransport and Livability with Prof. Ahmed El-Geneidy, Washington have developed a
(WSSTL-2025) will bring McGill University, discussing Rsystem, called ProxiCycle, that
together over 300-400 “How Daily Travel Contributes to logs when a passing car comes
delegates—including leading Quality of Life: Lessons from the too close to a cyclist (four feet or
researchers, policymakers, Canadian Context.” less). A small, inexpensive sensor
practitioners and community Altogether 12 plenary sessions plugs into bicycle handlebars and
advocates—from more than – curated and moderated by tracks the passes, sending them to
10 countries. Organised by ICCT, GIZ, K-RIDE, WRI, IISc the rider’s phone. The team tested
Department of Civil Engineering Sustainable Transportation Lab the system for two months with
at IISc Bengaluru, which is (IST Lab), AM-CoE, Uber India, 15 cyclists in Seattle and found a
celebrating its 75th year since and DPIIT—will discuss zero- significant correlation between the
inception, together with emission buses, gender-inclusive locations of close passes and other
the Special Interest Group living-lab insights, multimodal indicators of poor safety, such
on Sustainable Transport & as collisions.
Livability (SIG-F4) of the World integration, active-mobility Deployed at scale, the system
promotion and the institutional
Conference on Transport could support mapping or
Research Society (WCTRS), the reforms needed for sustainable navigating cyclists on safer bike
three-day event is set to feature and livable cities. routes through cities .To start,
pre-symposium workshop, Parallel technical sessions will researchers surveyed 389 people in
keynote sessions, plenary focus on findings on data-driven Seattle. Respondents of all cycling
discussions, technical sessions and research based Quality experience levels ranked the threat
and interactive community of Life indices, health-impact of cars as the factor which most
engagement sessions. assessments, resilience analytics
and policy frameworks, covered discouraged them from cycling, and
The first keynote presentation said they would be very likely to use
of the symposium on June 25 in about 20 peer-reviewed a map that helps navigate for safety.
is by Prof. Guenter Emberger, accepted papers.
TU Vienna, Austria, speaking on WSSTL-2025 also emphasises The team found a significant
“Are Sustainability and Quality of community engagement and correlation between close passes and
Life and the Choice of Means of sustainable event practices. both other indicators of cycling risk.
Transport Related?”; it continues Case studies from Bengaluru’s They also found that this measure of
on June 26 when Prof. Maria walkable-corridor pilots, Inner close passes was a better indicator
Attard, University of Malta, Ring Road multimodal upgrades of actual safety than the surveyed
presents her keynote address and Pimpri-Chinchwad’s car- perceived safety, which is the current
on “What Affects Walking? free market experiments are to standard used by policymakers to study
Designing Action Research to be showcased. safety when collisions are not enough.
Source: Science Daily

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