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Title:

Cycle-Tracks, Bicycle Lanes, and On-street Cycling in Montreal, Canada: A Preliminary Comparison of the Cyclist Injury Risk

Accession Number:

01366650

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

This paper estimates the relative cyclist injury risk of bicycle facilities with respect to streets without bicycle provisions, and explores the differences in cyclist injury risk between different types of facilities, namely, cycle-tracks and bicycle lanes. The cyclist injury rates for a set of four cycle tracks (totaling 11.75 km) and four bicycle lanes (totaling 3.76 km) in the City of Montreal are compared to injury rates for corresponding control streets using relative risk ratios. Nine control streets are used. Overall, it was found that most bicycle facilities in the analysis do indeed exhibit lower cyclist injury rates than the corresponding control streets. Furthermore, factors that may affect the injury risk of a particular bicycle facility include whether or not it is bidirectional, visibility, physical separation, presence and location of parking, vehicular traffic, and the direction of vehicular traffic. However, further research is required to determine the exact effect of these factors, and to address several limitations in data.

Monograph Accession #:

01362476

Report/Paper Numbers:

12-2987

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Nosal, Thomas
Miranda-Moreno, Luis F

Pagination:

19p

Publication Date:

2012

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting

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

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Bicycle safety

Geographic Terms:

Montreal (Canada)

Subject Areas:

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; Terminals and Facilities; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2012 Paper #12-2987

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Feb 8 2012 5:13PM