Commercial Vehicle-Bicycle Conflicts: A Growing Urban Challenge

In many urban areas, including New York City (NYC), commercial vehicles face extremely challenging urban delivery conditions characterized by congested traffic and inadequate parking. Cities are increasingly looking to reduce congestion, and its negative externalities, by encouraging commuter shifts to non-motorized modes. However, achieving a considerable increase in bicycle mode share requires implementation of safe, often exclusive, bicycle capacities. Sparse available space, and even existing motor vehicle capacity, is increasingly being converted for use by bicycles, resulting in even less available parking for commercial vehicles, and creating an even more challenging multi-modal environment at the curbside. In this project, researchers performed a detailed analysis of observational data collected at the curbside in eight NYC neighborhoods to identify characteristics of both commercial vehicles and curbside conditions that can be used as predictors of commercial vehicle - bicycle conflict frequencies. This information can be used by planners in future curbside design to better understand expected freight behaviors at bicycle lane locations.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AT025 Urban Freight Transportation.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Conway, Alison J
  • Thuillier, Oriane
  • Dornhelm, Esther
  • Lownes, Nicholas E
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
• Date: 2013

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 15p
• Monograph Title: TRB 92nd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bicycle crashes; Bicycle facilities; City planning; Commercial vehicles; Design of specific facilities; Urban areas
• Geographic Terms: New York (New York)
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01478494
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 13-4299
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Apr 15 2013 1:15PM