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With bicycle sales increasing rapidly and with attitudes that regard the bicycle as a toy declining, bicycle travel must be integrated into the urban transportation planning process. The bicycle is being recognized more and more as a viable means of urban transportation, but rational planning for the bicycle requires detailed information concerning the nature of intraurban bicycle travel, information that currently does not exist for U.S. cities. This paper uses detailed travel data gathered recently in Sweden to demonstrate that bicycle travel closely resembles motor vehicle travel. The data show that, when bicycle ownerhship is high and when planners treat the bicycle as a viable means of transportation, the bike is used extensively in daily travel for a variety of trip purposes. In planning for bicycle facilities in U.S. cities, transportation planners must recognize that viewing the bicycle primarily as a recreational vehicle will not meet the needs of most cyclists. The bicycle must be integrated into the urban transportation planning process like any other urban transportation mode. /Author/

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Markve, Kenneth

pp 24-30

1976

Transportation Research Record

0309024838

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References (20)

Attitudes; Bicycles; Cyclists; Data collection; Integrated systems; Recreational vehicles; Transportation planning; Travel patterns; Urban transportation

Integration

Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation

TRIS, TRB

Sep 4 1981 12:00AM

• A HIGHWAY SAFETY STANDARD FOR BICYCLE FACILITIES (ABRIDGMENT)
• BICYCLES AND LEGISLATION
• CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN BICYCLE PLANNING FROM THE PUBLIC AGENCY'S VIEWPOINT: WHY AND IS IT WORTH THE EFFORT?
• DEVELOPMENT OF A PLANNING PROCESS FOR A FUNCTIONAL AND RECREATIONAL BICYCLE SYSTEM (ABRIDGMENT)
• ESTABLISHING WARRANTS FOR CONTROL OF A BICYCLE CROSSING THROUGH SIMULATION (ABRIDGMENT)
• PLANNING AND DESIGN OF BICYCLE FACILITIES: PITFALLS AND NEW DIRECTIONS
• PLANNING AND DESIGNING A DEMONSTRATION BIKEWAY
• PREDICTING THE TYPE AND VOLUME OF PURPOSEFUL BICYCLE TRIPS