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Released the dashboards on bike accidents in Italy

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Research coordinator

Paolo Bozzuto

Reserach team

Fabio Manfredini, Emilio Guastamacchia, Shidsa Zarei

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ISTAT

Craft is pleased to announce the publication (in beta version) of five dashboards for consulting and visualizing data on cycling accidents in Italy, one of the primary outcomes of our pilot project, THE ATLAS OF THE DEAD (and badly injured) CYCLISTS IN ITALY / / ATLANTE ITALIANO DEI MORTI (e dei feriti gravi) IN BICICLETTA.

The research introduced an original working methodology, based on complex data-mining activities on the official dataset on road accidents released annually by ISTAT ("Detection of road accidents with injuries to persons: microdata for public use"). The system developed by the research group enabled the detailed extraction and analysis of all information related to cycling accidents.

The first four dashboards offer an analysis of data on cycling accidents that occurred over the decade between 2014 and 2023 (the latest dataset available to date, released by ISTAT in May 2025), in every single Italian municipality. Users can therefore consult and view the data at both the municipal level and at higher geographical-administrative aggregations (provinces, regions, and national level).

The fifth dashboard enables users to view the detailed location of cycling accidents that occurred in 2022 and 2023 (the only two years currently released by ISTAT with the necessary coordinates to geolocate accidents) in every Italian municipality and at higher geographical-administrative aggregations (provinces, regions, and national level).

For the first time, therefore, it is possible to understand the extent and geographic distribution (at different territorial scales) of cycling accidents in Italy, through an intuitive tool aimed at a broad audience, especially those who wish to contribute to a reflection on the causes and circumstances in which cycling accidents occur and on the priority interventions to reduce them.

The five dashboards can be found at the links on the side.

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