Cycle-Tracks, Bicycle Lanes, and On-street Cycling in Montreal, Canada: A Preliminary Comparison of the Cyclist Injury Risk

This paper estimates the relative cyclist injury risk of bicycle facilities with respect to streets without bicycle provisions, and explores the differences in cyclist injury risk between different types of facilities, namely, cycle-tracks and bicycle lanes. The cyclist injury rates for a set of four cycle tracks (totaling 11.75 km) and four bicycle lanes (totaling 3.76 km) in the City of Montreal are compared to injury rates for corresponding control streets using relative risk ratios. Nine control streets are used. Overall, it was found that most bicycle facilities in the analysis do indeed exhibit lower cyclist injury rates than the corresponding control streets. Furthermore, factors that may affect the injury risk of a particular bicycle facility include whether or not it is bidirectional, visibility, physical separation, presence and location of parking, vehicular traffic, and the direction of vehicular traffic. However, further research is required to determine the exact effect of these factors, and to address several limitations in data.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Nosal, Thomas
  • Miranda-Moreno, Luis F
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2012-1-22 to 2012-1-26
• Date: 2012

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 19p
• Monograph Title: TRB 91st Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bicycle crashes; Bicycle lanes; Bikeways; Cyclists; Injury rates
• Uncontrolled Terms: Bicycle safety
• Geographic Terms: Montreal (Canada)
• Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; Terminals and Facilities; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01366650
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 12-2987
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Mar 30 2012 10:32AM