<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "https://jats.nlm.nih.gov/nlm-dtd/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd">
<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en">
<front>
<journal-meta>
<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">AGILE-GISS</journal-id>
<journal-title-group>
<journal-title>AGILE: GIScience Series</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">AGILE-GISS</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">AGILE GIScience Ser.</abbrev-journal-title>
</journal-title-group>
<issn pub-type="epub">2700-8150</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
</publisher>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/agile-giss-7-35-2026</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title>Fuzzy Meta Indices: A Bikeability Case Study in Augsburg</article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Löw</surname>
<given-names>Pablo S.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Krisp</surname>
<given-names>Jukka M.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
</contrib-group><aff id="aff1">
<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Applied Geoinformatics, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany</addr-line>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>10</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2026</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>7</volume>
<elocation-id>35</elocation-id>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Pablo S. Löw</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access">
<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
</license>
</permissions>
<self-uri xlink:href="https://agile-giss.copernicus.org/articles/7/35/2026/agile-giss-7-35-2026.html">This article is available from https://agile-giss.copernicus.org/articles/7/35/2026/agile-giss-7-35-2026.html</self-uri>
<self-uri xlink:href="https://agile-giss.copernicus.org/articles/7/35/2026/agile-giss-7-35-2026.pdf">The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://agile-giss.copernicus.org/articles/7/35/2026/agile-giss-7-35-2026.pdf</self-uri>
<abstract>
<p>Biking as an active way of travelling has many benefits and many cities try to promote it. The first step to informed decisions that increase the bikeability of a city&amp;rsquo;s street network is to understand where its strengths and weaknesses lie. Therefore one usually creates indices that classify certain aspects of a city&amp;rsquo;s roads into more positive or negative values. We present a methodology to combine multiple such indices into a fuzzy meta index with fuzzy inference systems in a street network. In the case study area of central Augsburg in Germany we present all indices as histograms to make the way these systems work more visible. There we compare the results of different fuzzy inference systems. The best result is then compared with a standard meta index obtained by the weighted mean of the single indices. The results show that the alternations to the fuzzy inference systems allow adjustments to the fuzzy meta index. We conclude that the methodology presented yields an more adaptive alternative to the weighted average for combining sub-indices.</p>
</abstract>
<counts><page-count count="8"/></counts>
</article-meta>
</front>
<body/>
<back>
</back>
</article>