Iteris enhanced its entire Vantage video detection product line with the SmartCycle™ algorithm in January of this year. This game-changing innovation for bicycle detection (and, yes, counting) differentially detects bicycles apart from all other vehicles approaching the intersection (or, in the case of a dedicated bike path, approaching the sensor). Since the detection is visual, it detects carbon fiber bikes just the same as the "old" bikes that the rest of us use (ha!).
If you have a signalized intersection anywhere along the route where you want to count bicycles, installing any one of the Vantage family of video detection systems at that intersection will give you the capability to count bicycles as a secondary benefit of the system. Of course, the primary benefit is safety - the ability to have one or more separate phase call outputs (extend-time if needed to give a last-car-passage type of result) issued by the Vantage detector when it detects a bicycle. Also, the bicycle detection zone (or zones) can be placed anywhere on the approach; bikes no longer need to be corralled into a "special" spot or a special lane. Check the SmartCycle webpage at
http://www.iteris.com/products/processors/smartcycle for more details and FAQs.
Claremont, CA is one of our early adopters that now has dozens of intersections equipped with SmartCycle. You could probably reach out to them for operational feedback.
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Glenn Grayson P.E.
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Iteris, Inc. ... see our website for SmartCycle, the game-changer for bicycle detection
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