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Title:

Wherever You Go, There They Are? Examining the Associations Between Rack Design, Land Use, Built Environment Characteristics, and Usage of Bicycle Parking Facilities

Accession Number:

01363032

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 USA
Order URL: http://amonline.trb.org/

Abstract:

Municipalities continue to promote the economic, environmental, and health benefits of bicycling. Consistent with this objective, municipalities have increased efforts to install and improve bicycle parking facilities. However, there is limited research examining how usage of these facilities interacts with infrastructure, land use, and the built environment. This research begins to fill this gap through an examination of the association between bicycle rack design, land use, and built environment characteristics on bicycle rack usage. A complete inventory of all bicycle racks and cumulative bicycle parking spaces was undertaken in the Town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. A total of n=716 bicycle racks were inventoried and assessed based on usage of each facility. A zero-inflated negative binomial regression model was developed to examine associations between bicycle rack usage and bicycle rack design, land use, and built environment characteristics. Results find that type of rack, condition of the rack, accessibility, population density, employment density, street connectivity, distance to the University of North Carolina, and distance to the nearest bicycle lane or path serve as significant predictors of bicycle rack usage. These results add to the existing research literature by identifying determinants that significantly predict usage of bicycle parking facilities and provide practitioners with additional insights behind the siting of new bicycle parking facilities. Future research is encouraged to further explore these associations from a qualitative standpoint such as conducting interviews with bicyclists at bicycle parking facilities.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANF20 Bicycle Transportation

Monograph Accession #:

01362476

Report Numbers:

12-4427

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 USA

Authors:

Ousdahl, Michael Steven

Pagination:

14p

Publication Date:

2012

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC
Date: 2012-1-22 to 2012-1-26
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Bicycle racks; Built environment

Geographic Terms:

Chapel Hill (North Carolina)

Subject Areas:

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Terminals and Facilities; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2012 Paper #12-4427

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Last Modified:

Feb 21 2012 10:05AM