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Title:

State-wide Analysis of Factors Influencing Walking and Bicycling in Rural Environments

Accession Number:

01556689

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Most research on factors influencing walking and bicycling were conducted in urban and suburban places. There is a literature gap on pedestrians and bicyclists in other built environments. This study used 2009 Vermont add-on data from the National Household Travel Survey to perform a state- wide analysis of factors associated with walking and bicycling across different built environments, including rural settlements. Three separate binomial logistic regression models were developed: one for walkers and two for bicyclists, those under the age of 18, and adults 18 and above. The model results show that bicycling differs among adults and children, but it is significantly correlated with age, gender, season, how active the individual is, and whether anyone else in the household are also bicycling. It is also influenced by the population density, although in reverse directions for children and adults. Bicycling, however, was not influenced by business density or hilliness. Walking, though, was positively correlated with both of these, as well as age, season, and the individual having bicycled as well. Walking did differ from bicycling, especially with regard to the lack of correlation with gender or population density for the walking model and the lack of correlation with business density for the adult bicycling model. Overall, the bicycling models had higher explanatory powers, especially for children, showing that the factors associated with bicycling are more influential.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANF20 Bicycle Transportation. Alternate title: Statewide Analysis of Factors Influencing Walking and Bicycling in Rural Environments.

Monograph Accession #:

01550057

Report/Paper Numbers:

15-5566

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Rouleau, Benjamin M
Lee, Brian H Y

Pagination:

16p

Publication Date:

2015

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Vermont

Subject Areas:

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-5566

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 30 2014 1:52PM