Introducing a Framework for Cycling Investment Prioritization

Concerns over urban congestion, air pollution, and health disparities have prompted many cities to expand their bicycle networks to foster a cycling culture. Given limited budgets, choosing a set of road segments for investments in cycling infrastructure to achieve a city’s ambitious goals is still a challenge. This study introduces a quantitative framework for prioritizing future bicycle improvement projects for implementation within budgetary constraints using different intervention strategies with regard to specific goals and objectives. The “connectivity-focused” prioritization strategy aims to consolidate bicycle networks and improve network connectivity. The “equity-based” strategy grows the bicycle networks and favors cycling equity goals; it prioritizes cycling projects that improve bicycle accessibility to urban opportunities for disadvantaged populations and mitigates disparities in access to bicycle facilities. The “modal shift” strategy seeks to build a bicycle network which would appeal to prospective bicycle commuters and thereby reduce vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT) and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The results highlight the importance of growing bicycle networks in a systematic way and show that this framework is useful for guiding the implementation of new bicycle facilities with specific policy priorities.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981231152241
• Availability:
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Kevin Manaugh https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2975-030X© National Academy of Sciences: Transportation Research Board 2023.
• Authors:
  • Zhao, Qiao
  • Manaugh, Kevin
  • 0000-0003-2975-030X
• Publication Date: 2023-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 265-277
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Volume: 2677
  • Issue Number: 7
  • Publisher: Sage Publications, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0361-1981
  • EISSN: 2169-4052
  • Serial URL: http://journals.sagepub.com/home/trr

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bicycle commuting; Bicycling; Connectivity; Equity; Greenhouse gases; Investments; Modal shift; Programming (Planning); Sustainable transportation; Vehicle miles of travel
• Subject Areas: Environment; Finance; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01872554
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 6 2023 3:32PM