The Potential for Cycling in Starter Cycling Cities
There has been an increasing recognition of the potential of cycling for a more sustainable urban mobility. Regardless, many Starter Cycling cities are still struggling with finding the right approach to bring about change and even with finding the right political and social commitment to a real change. In this paper the authors explore the operationalization of the concept of potential for cycling aiming to provide detailed knowledge to local authorities on structural conditions of cities to take up cycling. With this in mind the authors present an assessment method able to categorize and provide spatial visualization of the potential for cycling of starter cycling cities. Using this method, the authors explore the potential for cycling of two municipalities of the metropolitan area of Porto, which are interesting examples of starter cycling cities in a particular national context which can in it-self be categorized as starter cycling. Results illustrate differences in potential between these two municipalities with Porto having a more positive scenario due to being more densely populated, which enabled more efficient cycling policies (in spite of their limited nature), namely with its cycling infrastructure covering a higher percentage of population regardless of the limited extension. The less positive potential of Matosinhos results from its geographical asymmetries, such as, its sparsely populated northern region combined with its cycling infrastructure being leisure oriented (and mostly the cost).
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- © 2019 Cecília Silva et al. Published by Elsevier B.V. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
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Authors:
- Silva, Cecília
- Teixeira, João
- Proença, Ana
- Bicalho, Tamara
- Aguiar, Ana
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Conference:
- mobil.TUM 2018 "Urban Mobility – Shaping the Future Together" - International Scientific Conference on Mobility and Transport
- Location: Munich , Germany
- Date: 2018-6-13 to 2018-6-14
- Publication Date: 2019
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 637-654
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Procedia
- Volume: 41
- Issue Number: 0
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISSN: 2352-1465
- Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/23521465/
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Open Access (libre)
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Bicycling; Evaluation and assessment; Infrastructure; Policy; Population; Visualization
- Geographic Terms: Matosinhos (Portugal); Porto (Portugal)
- Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Policy;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01727593
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jan 14 2020 4:26PM