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Title: BICYCLE ACCESS TO PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: LEARNING FROM ABROAD
Accession Number: 00637909
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: In the face of traffic congestion, air pollution, and inadequate fiscal resources, American communities need to consider new, more cost-effective strategies to expand transit use and reduce automobile dependence. Worldwide experience suggests that improving bicycle access to transit in the United States may be the most promising but neglected low-cost strategy to enhance air quality while increasing the freedom of travelers to choose alternatives to the automobile. Bicycles are the fastest-growing and predominant mode of access to express public transportation services in many European communities and in Japan. Provision of secure bicycle storage at rail stations, development of bicycle-friendly street networks, and the creation of a climate of community opinion supportive of bicycling are all important factors behind the success of bike-and-ride systems in these countries. U.S. transit access systems have increasingly relied on the automobile. However, park-and-ride systems have served only suburb-to-central city travel markets, which are of declining importance, while weakening transit system competitiveness in the growing suburb-to-suburb travel market. U.S. communities can learn valuable lessons from the foreign experience in creating balanced multimodal transit access systems that include the bicycle.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1396, Nonmotorized Transportation Research and Issues. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 01403236
Language: English
Authors: Replogle, MichaelPagination: p. 75-80
Publication Date: 1993
Serial: ISBN: 0309054699
Features: Figures
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TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Geographic Terms: Old TRIS Terms: Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Oct 25 1993 12:00AM
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