ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF BICYCLE TRANSPORT

The factors which influence the demand for and supply of bicycle trips are discussed, followed by an assessment of the relative price elasticities of demand and supply for bicycle travel in Australia. A short review of the publicly available statistics relevant to bicycles in Australia then concludes that the meaningful information required for bicycle analyses must be collected in specially conducted surveys. The likely impacts of the implementation of a bikeplan upon the demand for and supply of bicycle and private car trips are discussed. These findings are then used to devise a method of break even analysis for evaluating such projects. The method is applied to an example bikeplan. Statistics for Adelaide are used to clarify the results. However, the example plan does not represent the proposed Adelaide plan. Adelaide was chosen because of the availability of details regarding public transport subsidies. (TRRL)

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Papers from 8th Australian Transport Research Forum, Canberra, May 18-20, 1983, Volumes 1-3. This paper was presented in Session 3: Analytical Approaches to Urban Transport Problems.
• Corporate Authors:

  Australian Government Publishing Service

  P.O. Box 84
  Canberra, A.C.T. 2600,   Australia 
• Authors:
  • Steeper, N J
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Features: Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 119-148
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Australian Government Publishing Service
  • Publisher: Australian Government Publishing Service
  • ISSN: 1032-4152

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobiles; Bicycles; Conferences; Costs; Demand; Economic factors; Economics; Evaluation and assessment; Impacts; Methodology; Planning; Prices; Statistics; Supply; Transportation; Travel
• Uncontrolled Terms: Supply and demand
• Geographic Terms: Australia
• ITRD Terms: 8006: Australia; 1211: Bicycle; 1243: Car; 8525: Conference; 224: Cost; 285: Demand (econ); 263: Economics of transport; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 698: Journey; 9102: Method; 143: Planning
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Society; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00378978
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 0 644 02516 6
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Dec 30 1983 12:00AM