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In recent years, bike planning has garnered attention from planners and the public as a sustainable mode of transportation and as a means to exercise and reduce health risks. In addition, following the success of bike-share programs in cities in Paris and Lyon, France, and Montreal, Canada, several US cities initiated similar programs. With this background, GISs have been applied to conduct a spatial analysis and produce heat maps of bike-travel demand and suitable areas for a bike-sharing program. These studies include a variety of factors, such as demographics of residents, land use, street types, and available bike facilities and transit services. However, there have been few studies that take topography and street connectivity into account. The study proposes a method to combine topography and presence of intersections with estimates of energy used to bike, and incorporate the resulting travel-impedance factor, as well as street connectivity, into a GIS analysis. Using the case in Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, where elevation and street connectivity varies substantially among neighborhoods, this study shows how the size and shape of bikesheds originating from proposed light rail stations vary in the GIS analysis with or without taking into account these critical factors. The analysis results have significant implications for various bike planning programs using a GIS analysis.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANF20 Bicycle Transportation.

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13-1774

English

21p

2013

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Bicycle travel; Geographic information systems; Highway design; Intersections; Spatial analysis; Topography; Transportation planning; Travel demand

Bicycling energy (Human beings)

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

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-1774

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Feb 5 2013 12:25PM