POLICYCLE - POLItecnico for a suitable CYCLing Environment

Duration: March 2014 - April 2015
Funding Programme /Grant: Progettualità studentesca PoliTO
Project Total Cost: 15.000 €
Departments involved:
- DIATI - Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering
- DAD - Department of Architecture and Design
- DIST - Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning - DIST
Abstract:
- The project POLICYCLE (POLItecnico for a suitable CYCLing Environment) is focused on bicycle mobility through the use of 3D techniques, remote sensing, data capture and acquisition from mobile platforms (GPS device, cameras, inertial platforms, accelerometers, etc.). All this information will be useful for:
  - building bicycle paths that can be shared and published using both a WebGIS system or on a Mobile App;
  - monitoring bicycle mobility using a collaborative environment (Crowdsourcing).
- The assumption of this project is that sustainable mobility is an essential value and to promote it means:
  - reaching “zero environmental impact”
  - maintaining a high level of physical activity of humans that helps the lowering of all those diseases associated with the heavy use of classic mobility means (ie, breathing disorders, stress and high accident rates).
- The project involves student teams based on issues relating to Geomatic Engineering and Professors from the departments of Environment, Land and Infrastructure (DIATI) and Architecture and Design (DAD) and Inter-University Department of Science, Planning and Land Policy (DIST).