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Title:

Assessment of Service Areas for Bicycle Accessibility to Transit Stations

Accession Number:

01363045

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

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

Abstract:

Accessibility to a transit service is a key factor in a traveler's choice on transportation mode and use of public transportation, where service areas are commonly used to visualize accessibility to transit stations. While modeling of service areas for pedestrians has been widely discussed in the transportation literature, the analysis of bicycle service areas to access transit services is still relatively unexplored. However, for the design of mobility hubs, which are major transit access points, better knowledge of bicycle service areas is essential for the appropriate planning of bicycle infrastructure nearby. While presumed cycling distances to such hubs are somewhere between one and two miles in long term range planning documents, a more accurate assessment of bicycle access distances is necessary. This paper uses two on-board surveys from the Los Angeles and Atlanta regions to derive cycling distances to transit stations. Results show that the presumed 1-2 mile (1600-3200m) radius is a good match with observed distances for the Atlanta region, but that it underestimates observed cycling distances to transit services in the Los Angeles area with a 4358m average cycling distance. A linear regression model that estimates cycling distances to transit station was developed which shows that cycling distance is affected by household characteristics, structure of the street and transit network along the route and near the transit station, and time of the day. Variable service areas generated on the model results can be used to identify the appropriate radius around mobility hubs.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANF20 Bicycle Transportation

Monograph Accession #:

01362476

Report Numbers:

12-4657

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 USA

Authors:

Hochmair, Hartwig H

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

Subject Areas:

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2012 Paper #12-4657

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Last Modified:

Feb 21 2012 10:05AM