Konya Metropolitan Municipality continues to implement and support environmentally friendly and sustainable transportation models in Konya, which leads Turkey by a wide margin with 680 kilometers of bicycle paths.
Konya Metropolitan Municipality, which launched Turkey’s first Bicycle Master Plan in 2019 together with the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization, and Climate Change, has implemented a counter application called “BİSAY” to collect data on bicycle usage in line with the recommendations of the plan.
The “BİSAY” systems, installed on bicycle route points at five different locations in the city, use image processing and object recognition technologies to count users passing through the bike lanes in real time, providing detailed usage statistics.
Thanks to the collected data, peak hours of bicycle trips, seasonal usage habits, and route needs in the city are identified, allowing for new planning. This way, exemplary practices are developed not only in Konya but also at the national level for urban management and sustainable transportation policies.
At the same time, these counters raise awareness, motivating cyclists to contribute to a sustainable future while increasing sensitivity toward cyclists among other road users.
