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Title: The Applicability of Space Syntax to Bicycle Facility Planning
Accession Number: 01088457
Record Type: Component
Record URL: Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Find a library where document is available Abstract: With the emergence of bicycles as an increasingly viable form of urban transportation comes the need for improved design and planning tools. Existing methods for evaluating bicycle facilities and for prioritizing their construction and maintenance are reviewed. Two components are necessary for such an analysis: one for assessing the quality of the segments that make up the network, and one for assessing the overall network itself. Space syntax analysis is evaluated as a tool for network assessment on the basis of its potential to predict patterns of travel over different network configurations. The theory behind space syntax is evaluated and then tested by using data from the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts. A good model for predicting bicycle volumes within a network can be constructed by using only census data and the space syntax measure “choice.” Unlike existing bicycle suitability measures, space syntax describes the importance of segments to the connectivity or completeness of the network.
Monograph Title: School Transportation; Bicycles; Motorcycles and Motor Scooters Monograph Accession #: 01116587
Language: English
Authors: McCahill, Christopher TGarrick, NormanPagination: pp 46-51
Publication Date: 2008
ISBN: 9780309113489
Media Type: Print
Features: Figures
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TRT Terms: Identifier Terms: Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Jan 29 2008 5:05PM
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