NYC Bike Lane Profiling
This project uses the
DOT Bike Lane Shapefile \cite{department_of_transportation_city_of_new_york_nyc_2017} as a primary source of local administrative data. this data is provided to the public for free by the New York City Department of Transportation and is also used to publish the annual NYC Bike Map, a physical map booklet. Over 375,000 are distributed annually at bicycle shops, libraries, and schools. DOT also distributes geographic data of NYC bike routes through shapefiles. This dataset contains information on length, Borough , class, street from and street to. This data is integrated with data collected from the Open Street Cam application using the spatial join method. A summary of our findings include:
NYC, as measured by individual segments, has 22,757 bike lanes in total. 4,569 bike lanes in Brooklyn, 4,044 bike lanes in Manhattan, 3,328 bike lanes in Queens, 2,405 bike lanes in the Bronx, and 634 bike lanes in Staten Island. There 13 bike lane types.