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Rapid motorization and population growth in many Latin American cities has resulted in unprecedented urban transportation challenges, with lower income populations disproportionately facing constraints to mobility as well as externalities like air pollution, traffic accidents, and climate change. The construction of bicycle lane networks has been identified as an effective tool for increasing citizen’s mobility and accessibility as well as combatting the effects of motorization, but in cities where bicycle lane networks exist, it is not known if they have benefitted different income groups equally. This paper assesses the extent to which bicycle lane provisioning has been equitable among neighbourhoods in Rio de Janeiro and Curitiba. Both cities were found to have more than twice the supply of bicycle lanes in the wealthiest quintile than the lowest-income quintile relative to area and population. A network analysis using a Level of Traffic Safety classification to categorize roads found that wealthier areas have more commercial areas accessible along safer cycling routes. Implications for cycling policy and future research are discussed.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE90 Standing Committee on Transportation in the Developing Countries. Alternate title: Whose Bike Lanes? Access to Safe Cycling Routes Across Neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro and Curitiba, Brazil

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16-4013

English

17p

2016

Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Bicycle lanes; Neighborhoods; Routes; Safety; Urban areas

Curitiba (Brazil); Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

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

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2016 Paper #16-4013

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 12 2016 5:46PM