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Title:

Commercial Vehicle-Bicycle Conflicts: A Growing Urban Challenge

Accession Number:

01478494

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

In many urban areas, including New York City (NYC), commercial vehicles face extremely challenging urban delivery conditions characterized by congested traffic and inadequate parking. Cities are increasingly looking to reduce congestion, and its negative externalities, by encouraging commuter shifts to non-motorized modes. However, achieving a considerable increase in bicycle mode share requires implementation of safe, often exclusive, bicycle capacities. Sparse available space, and even existing motor vehicle capacity, is increasingly being converted for use by bicycles, resulting in even less available parking for commercial vehicles, and creating an even more challenging multi-modal environment at the curbside. In this project, researchers performed a detailed analysis of observational data collected at the curbside in eight NYC neighborhoods to identify characteristics of both commercial vehicles and curbside conditions that can be used as predictors of commercial vehicle - bicycle conflict frequencies. This information can be used by planners in future curbside design to better understand expected freight behaviors at bicycle lane locations.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AT025 Urban Freight Transportation.

Monograph Accession #:

01470560

Report/Paper Numbers:

13-4299

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Conway, Alison J
Thuillier, Oriane
Dornhelm, Esther
Lownes, Nicholas E

Pagination:

15p

Publication Date:

2013

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

New York (New York)

Subject Areas:

Freight Transportation; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-4299

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 5 2013 12:50PM