For my presentation, I am going to talk about how a hackathon held last year dedicated its coding projects to bicycle safety. People gathered together to create an app that would help solve the pedestrian and bicycle safety in the city. In 2015 there were reports of 300 crashed between pedestrians, cars, or bikes. However police stated that about 60% of bike accidents go unreported. This app would allow an easy way to report accidents and show other users where to be more cautious when riding on the road. Police often do not report crashes unless it “involves a car, a participant is injured, a law is broken or more than $1,500 in damage occurs”. The police department is looking for an app that can help bicyclists and pedestrians store information regarding their accidents in case if a report were to arise later. Twice a year workers are sent out to calculate how many bikers are using certain bike lanes. An app that allows bicyclists to enter what routes they are using to help data collectors and “give a better sense of bicycle commuting traffic across the whole year”. 

 

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