Cyclists in Brisbane are allowed to ride on roads, footpaths and dedicated bike tracks, but which routes are the safest or the quickest or best suited to each rider's needs?

The answers could be revealed through a world-first experiment involving a Brisbane-based transport planner and Berlin's urban design think tank, the BMW Guggenheim Lab.

It's called the Dynamic Connections Map and it was created by AECOM's Rachel Smith and her lab mates, New York University Adjunct Professor in communications John Schimmel and digital designer Dave Dawson.

And it works as an interactive guide to the most cycle-friendly streets and intersections in Brisbane and other global capital cities as determined by the results of a series of crowd-sourced spatial surveys carried out since 2011.