How do the characteristics of bike lanes influence safety perception and the intention to use cycling as a feeder mode to BRT?

Cycling is an environmentally friendly, economically beneficial and health-promoting means of transportation. Due to its great potential to cover short and medium distances, the use of the bicycle as a feeder mode to BRT is a priority on the public policy agenda. In addition to physical, level of service, and socioeconomic variables, safety perception is a factor playing a major role in the intention to use bicycles, and it may become more important for potential users than the infrastructure itself. Even though bicycle infrastructure and safety perception are linked, few studies have analyzed the effects that the bicycle infrastructure has on the safety perception. This paper studies how the characteristics of bike lanes influence safety perception and the intention to use bicycles as a feeder mode to BRT, using Bogotá’s Transmilenio as a case study. For this purpose, the authors used a hybrid discrete choice modeling approach to simultaneously estimate the attributes’ parameters explaining safety perception and the intention to use cycling as a feeder mode to BRT. The findings showed that providing colored pavement, buffers with planters or buffers with safe hit posts increase both the safety perception and the potential demand of the bicycles as a feeder mode to BRT. The modeling approach allowed us to identify combining promotion policies and measures of adaptation of existing infrastructure to increase bike lane coverage and encourage potential users to adopt the bicycle as a feeder mode to Transmilenio.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tbs.2021.04.005
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214367X21000338
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2021 Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Márquez, Luis
  • Cantillo, Víctor
  • Arellana, Julián
• Publication Date: 2021-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 205-217
• Serial:
  • Travel Behaviour and Society
  • Volume: 24
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 2214-367X
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/2214367X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Attitudes; Bicycle lanes; Bus rapid transit; Feeder services; Road markings; Safety; Transportation planning; Transportation policy
• Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01773088
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 26 2021 11:20AM