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^^^^^^ spot on ^^^^^^
It isn't the people tht already cycle a lot that you need to track. What you really need is to track people making short car journeys- and try to build a network that would cater to them
That's different data altogether - it depends what you're trying to achieve. Improving conditions for those already cycling is likely to encourage existing non-cyclists, on existing routes.
Tracking those making short car journeys may give you additional routes that aren't currently cycled because they may be utterly unpleasant on a bike. I wouldn't underestimate people's capacity for laziness.
i think that's kind of the point: there may be a latent demand for infrastructure on routes where there's currently no cycling at all. if *everyone* drives a mile to the tesco because that's the only realistic option, you won't see any demand for a cycle route there from cyclist GPS data.
There was a student doing a study of cycle travel patterns around Newcastle, not sure what happened with it as i only participated in the first part but we had little gps transponders, an app or using available data like strava would make good sense to get a lager dataset.