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Title:

A Large-Scale Development and Implementation of a Toolbox to Evaluate Recreational Bicycle Travel in Los Angeles County

Accession Number:

01626283

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

In recent years, there has been an increasing push among local transportation agencies to encourage bicycling for various travel purposes. For this purpose, providing appropriate tools to the planning agencies is of primary importance as they can identify and evaluate strategies to promote bicycling along with infrastructure improvements. In this study, the authors discuss the results related to recreational bicycle travel behavior in Los Angeles County. In this paper, statistical models determine propensity and frequency of recreational travel at the individual level. The authors also build the predictive model by transferring some parameters from other regions that accounts for individual trade-off behavior or marginal rates of substitution. Further, the authors report results based on a methodology that allocates recreational trips to individual bicycle facilities, thereby predicting link-level bicycle volumes in the region. The final objective of this study was to provide Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (”Metro”) with a toolbox to evaluate their strategies for bicycle planning purposes. Model estimation and implementation results for the three scenarios presented indicate that current proposed framework is sensitive in predicting recreational bicycle travel to existing and future changes in sociodemographics and built-environment attributes, including bicycle infrastructure facilities.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB10 Standing Committee on Traveler Behavior and Values. Alternate title: Large-Scale Development and Implementation of a Toolbox to Evaluate Recreational Bicycle Travel in Los Angeles County, California

Monograph Accession #:

01618707

Report/Paper Numbers:

17-01254

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Ravulaparthy, Srinath K
Selby, Brent
Liu, Feng
Rossi, Thomas
Chu, Chaushie
Farley, Robert
Zhu, Ying

Pagination:

14p

Publication Date:

2017

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-01254

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 8 2016 10:23AM