Media Release – 14 June 2022
Após testes piloto bem-sucedidos na Europa e quatro anos de pesquisa e desenvolvimento em consulta com especialistas globais em ciclismo e segurança, CycleRAP was launched at the Conferência Velo-city on 14 June 2022 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
CycleRAP is the latest of a range of innovative tools and models iRAP provides to help make the world’s road networks safer. It comes at a critical time, where cities around the world are working to improve the infrastructure and safety of sustainable transport modes.
CycleRAP is a model which can be used for easy, affordable and fast evaluation of road and bicycling infrastructure for safety. It aims to help cities and others identify where the risk of bicycle and light mobility crashes is high so safety can be improved.
O CycleRAP utiliza dados sobre as características de uma estrada, rua ou caminho para avaliar o risco de acidentes para ciclistas e usuários de mobilidade leve, independentemente do tipo de infraestrutura (seja ela em via pública ou fora dela) e para todos os tipos de acidentes. Pode ser usado em qualquer lugar do mundo.
O modelo e os dados do CycleRAP serão valiosos para uma ampla gama de partes interessadas, incluindo planejadores de transporte e urbanos, provedores de serviços de compartilhamento de bicicletas e micromobilidade, empresas de entrega de comida e de encomendas de bicicleta e comunidades escolares.
Usos específicos incluem:
- Abordar preocupações de segurança explícitas ou gerais para ciclistas e usuários de mobilidade leve.
- Avaliar a capacidade da rede existente para atender ao rápido aumento da demanda ou ao aumento de novos tipos de veículos.
- Priorizar o financiamento e o investimento em infraestrutura para ciclismo e mobilidade leve.
- Auxiliar as cidades na formalização de medidas de resposta rápida para ciclistas no período pós-COVID-19.
The model has been developed by iRAP with oversight of an international expert advisory group, and built upon the earlier work of the Dutch mobility club, ANWB.
“CycleRAP is the first globally-applicable model of its kind,” said Monica Olyslagers, iRAP’s Global Innovation Manager and Cities Specialist, “iRAP remains committed to providing evidence-based road safety models that can inform good policy, investment and design for safer mobility. Safety for bicycling and other forms of light mobility are critical for cities moving toward more healthy and environmentally friendly modes.”
The CycleRAP model expands upon iRAP’s current Bicyclist Star Ratings so that paths can be assessed independent of road networks. It also takes into account a broader range of crash types relevant to bicyclists and other forms of light mobility. It does not only assess the risk of conflicts with large vehicles, but also that with other bicyclists or light mobility riders, pedestrians, and the risk of crashes not involving other users.
It is estimated that internationally, 60-90% of hospitalisations resulting from bicycle and light mobility crashes do not involve a direct conflict with a vehicle. “Bicycle crashes are notoriously under-reported everywhere,” said Ms Olyslagers, “Even where someone is severely injured in a bicycle crash, if a vehicle isn’t directly involved, only an ambulance is called. The crash rarely makes it into police reports.”
“CycleRAP fills this gap so that those responsible for managing this infrastructure can pin-point where high risk sections are and improve the safety of them before crashes happen.”
CycleRAP was piloted along with other assessment methodologies in the EIRA-EuroRAP Projeto SABRINA.
O Projeto SABRINA, desenvolvido no âmbito do Programa Transnacional do Danúbio (Interreg Danúbio) com cofinanciamento de fundos da União Europeia (FEDER, ENI), visa abordar questões de segurança na infraestrutura cicloviária em corredores cicloviários existentes, planejados e inexistentes em 9 países da região do Danúbio. O projeto, com duração de 2,5 anos, está avaliando 2.500 km de rotas cicloviárias de longa distância da EuroVelo, desenvolvendo uma ferramenta para essa avaliação e buscando oportunidades de implementação junto às autoridades rodoviárias.
“CycleRAP is the newest of the assessment methodologies being used and compared under the SABRINA project. Using CycleRAP has meant we have been able to assess the risk on parts of the network which are separate to the road network,” explains Olivera Rozi, the SABRINA Project Director. “It also gives us a better understanding of the quality of the infrastructure for bicyclists. It can be used on long-distance routes as well as in urban areas.”
iRAP is partnering with leading industry partners to ensure the CycleRAP model can be of benefit to as many cities as possible through existing tools and platforms. These partnerships will be announced over coming months.
Para mais informações:
- Para saber mais sobre o CycleRAP, visite irap.org/cyclerap
- Registre seu interesse em receber atualizações do CycleRAP. aqui
- Para obter informações sobre como usar o CycleRAP ou se tornar um parceiro do setor, entre em contato com Monica Olyslagers, Gerente Global de Inovação e Especialista em Cidades da iRAP, por e-mail. monica.olyslagers@irap.org
