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The benefits of cycling have been well examined for several decades. It can improve public health and make cities more active and environmentally friendly. Due to its significant net benefits, many local governments have promoted cycling in Scotland. Glasgow City Council has provided four main cycling facilities between 2013 and 2015 to prepare the 2014 Commonwealth Games and to encourage cycling. This requires a substantial capital investment however, the effectiveness of these new big infrastructure investments has not been well examined, mostly due to data limitations. In this study, the authors utilized 2013, 2014, and 2015 Strava data and a fixed effects panel data regression model to examine whether new cycling infrastructure created before, during and after the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games have promoted more cycling after they were introduced to public. The authors' results showed that the four infrastructure projects have a positive effect on the monthly volume of cyclists, with flows up by around 6%. However, this effect is not statistically significant (p-value: 0.059).

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANF20 Standing Committee on Bicycle Transportation.

18-04168

English

4p

2018

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

References

Before and after studies; Bicycling; Crowdsourcing; Data collection; Infrastructure; Investments

Commonwealth Games (20th : 2014 : Glasgow, Scotland)

Glasgow (Scotland)

Data and Information Technology; Finance; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-04168

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 8 2018 11:01AM