Cycling behaviour in Germany: A dataset of cycling parameter across 100 cities based on City Cycling GPS trajectories
Sven Lißner, Stefan Huber, Paul Lindemann · 2026
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Description
Sven Lißner, Stefan Huber, and Paul Lindemann publish a data set of German cycling behavior drawn from a national campaign. Their 2026 paper describes City Cycling, a yearly drive in which residents swap car trips for bike trips over three weeks and log rides by phone GPS. More than three thousand municipalities joined across 2022 to 2024.
From the raw tracks, the team cleaned trips and sorted transport modes, then chose 109 cities and towns to mirror the country's variety in size, terrain, cycling share, and region. The release holds over eight million trip records with thirty-seven variables each, characterizing speed, distance, and riding patterns. Transport planners gain a rare, uniform window on everyday cycling across a whole country.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sven Lißner, Stefan Huber, Paul Lindemann |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |