{"id":241804,"date":"2026-07-09T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/can-ai-help-plan-better-bike-networks-santa-barbara-county-is-about-to-find-out\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T17:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:00:18","slug":"can-ai-help-plan-better-bike-networks-santa-barbara-county-is-about-to-find-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/can-ai-help-plan-better-bike-networks-santa-barbara-county-is-about-to-find-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Can AI Help Plan Better Bike Networks? Santa Barbara County Is About to Find Out."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cal.streetsblog.org\/2026\/07\/09\/can-ai-help-plan-better-bike-networks-santa-barbara-county-is-about-to-find-out\">Can AI Help Plan Better Bike Networks? Santa Barbara County Is About to Find Out.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cal.streetsblog.org\/2026\/07\/09\/can-ai-help-plan-better-bike-networks-santa-barbara-county-is-about-to-find-out\">https:\/\/cal.streetsblog.org\/2026\/07\/09\/can-ai-help-plan-better-bike-networks-santa-barbara-county-is-about-to-find-out<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-09 16:19:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cal.streetsblog.org\">cal.streetsblog.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Santa Barbara Council of Governments received a grant from Caltrans to use AI for designing a countywide bike map in collaboration with UC Santa Barbara and Simon Fraser University.<\/li>\n<li>The AI model, trained on Google Street View and OpenStreetMap data, assesses rider comfort on roads by analyzing various roadway characteristics.<\/li>\n<li>The AI-generated map, launched in English and Spanish, invites bicyclists\u2019 feedback to ensure accuracy.<\/li>\n<li>The project aims to revolutionize bicycle infrastructure mapping and may set a benchmark for AI&#8217;s role in transportation planning.<\/li>\n<li>SBCAG expects to finalize the project and publish the maps in summer 2027, providing valuable insights into AI&#8217;s effectiveness in local transportation initiatives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can AI Help Plan Better Bike Networks? Santa Barbara County Is About to Find Out&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cal.streetsblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-09-at-12.12.35-PM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241806,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241804\/revisions\/241806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}