More new counters to monitor cycle network use

Overview

Action 5.3: Install more bicycle counters and undertake surveys to monitor, evaluate and report on changes in use and behaviour following investments in the principal cycle network.

Lead agency: Department of Transport and Main Roads

Status: Complete

Achievements

To help identify growth on the network, we installed more bicycle counters and conducted surveys to measure and monitor where people ride and in what numbers.

This included 5 new permanent bicycle counters set up on these the Principal Cycle Network routes:

• North Brisbane Bikeway
• Veloway 1 (Tarragindi and Eight Mile Plains)
• Centenary Cycleway (Forest Lake)
• New England Highway (Highfields).

In addition to the new counters, we:

• did temporary counts of bike riders and pedestrians on principal cycle routes in Cairns, Bundaberg, Mackay, Townsville, Livingstone, Moreton Bay and Redlands to help monitor places of high and low bicycle usage
• commissioned a bike riding participation survey for Queensland
• completed intercept surveys and observational studies of several cycling infrastructure projects, including the Moreton Bay Cycleway, to support future planning.

Next steps

We will continue to measure bicycle riding participation and behaviour on the Principal Cycle Network by installing more bicycle counters and doing more surveys. In 2023, we will also trial new active transport counter and display technologies.