A Bicycle Network Analysis Tool for Planning Applications in Small Communities

This research presents network analysis tools for estimating bicycle demand and bicycle volumes on a transportation network. There are three main procedures used in the development of the network analysis tools: an initial bicycle origin-destination (O-D) demand generation procedure, a bicycle traffic assignment procedure, and a bicycle O-D matrix adjustment procedure. The initial bicycle O-D generation procedure adopts a doubly constrained gravity model to estimate an initial bicycle O-D matrix. Then, a two-stage bicycle traffic assignment model allocates the initial bicycle O-D matrix to the bicycle network to obtain the bicycle traffic flow pattern. Lastly, the initial bicycle O-D matrix goes through a readjustment process with a path flow estimator so that the final bicycle O-D matrix can reproduce better matches with the observed bicycle counts when performing the bicycle traffic assignment procedure. The paper concludes with a case study using the Utah State University (USU) campus to demonstrate the applicability and feasibility of the network analysis tools developed in this research.

• Record URL:
  https://www.ugpti.org/resources/reports/details.php?id=798
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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/29194
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This document was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  Utah State University, Logan

  Logan, UT  United States  84322-4110

  Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute

  North Dakota State University
  1320 Albrecht Boulevard
  Fargo, ND  United States  581052

  Mountain-Plains Consortium

  North Dakota State University
  Fargo, ND  United States  58108

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Ryu, Seungkyu
  • Su, Jacqueline
  • Chen, Anthony
• Publication Date: 2015-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 39p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bicycle travel; Case studies; Network analysis (Planning); Origin and destination; Traffic assignment; Traffic flow; Traffic volume; Travel demand
• Geographic Terms: Utah
• Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01567435
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: MPC 15-285
• Contract Numbers: MPC-434
• Files: UTC, NTL, TRIS, RITA, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Jun 26 2015 1:41PM