Effects of Bicycle Facility Characteristics and the Built Environment on Bicycle Use: Case Study of Fargo-Moorhead

This study developed a level of traffic stress (LTS) map for Fargo-Moorhead and used crowdsourced bicycle use data from Strava to show relationships between the built environment and bicycle use. The LTS map is useful for showing how friendly and encouraging areas are toward bicycle use, as well as for showing the connectivity of low-stress pathways, and the bicycle ridership model shows how the development of bicycle facilities and other changes to the built environment are associated with bicycle use, as measured using Strava count data. The results of the bicycle use model show that the existence of bicycle facilities is positively associated with bicycle use. This suggests that bicyclists are using the roadway design features that are meant to accommodate them, including shared-use paths, bike lanes, buffered lanes, shared-lane markings, signed-only routes, and shoulders. Other significant predictors of bicycle use included industrial employment density, which was negative, proximity to downtown or to water, low-stress connectivity, traffic volume and speed, which had unexpected positive effects, and median age.

• Record URL:
  https://www.ugpti.org/resources/reports/details.php?id=1105
• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/67079
• Summary URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/67554
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This document was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute

  Small Urban and Rural Center on Mobility
  North Dakota State University
  Fargo, ND  United States 

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Mattson, Jeremy
  • 0000-0002-0826-5834
  • Askarzadeh, Taraneh
  • Ebrahimi, Zhila Dehdari
• Publication Date: 2022-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 56p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bicycle counts; Bicycle facilities; Bicycle travel; Built environment; Stress (Psychology)
• Geographic Terms: Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01866989
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: SURTCOM 22-14
• Files: UTC, NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Dec 13 2022 10:03AM