DEVELOPMENT OF A PLANNING PROCESS FOR A FUNCTIONAL AND RECREATIONAL BICYCLE SYSTEM (ABRIDGMENT)

The purpose of this investigation was to develop a planning process to serve both functional and recreational travel demands in a community. This process involves determining the demands for bicycle travel and developing a bike transportation system to satisfy the demands at an acceptable level of service. An assessment of the desired level of service was obtained through an opinion survey on bicycle travel in the community. The planning process consisted of five phases: Organization; study design; data collection; system development, and route design. The first four phases of the bike planning process were conducted by the technical staff with volunteer assistance from a community service group for home interviews. The final phase of route design involves decisions by local officials on the precise locations of the bikeways within the bicycle corridors that were defined in the system development phase. In addition, the technical staff provided details on geometric design, signing, marking, and pavement design of the various bikeways after the final location and the degree of traffic separation had been determined for each segment of the bicycle system.

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  • Reports prepared for the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board. Publication of this paper sponsored by Committee on Bicycling and Bicycle Facilities. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
• Authors:
  • Oppenlander, J C
  • Corazzini, J H
• Publication Date: 1976

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: p 19
• Monograph Title: The bicycle as a transportation mode
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 570
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bicycles; Bikeways; Communities; Corridors; Data collection; Geometric design; Level of service; Local government; Pavement design; Planning; Road markings; Signs; Surveys; Travel demand
• Old TRIS Terms: Recovering; Traffic marking
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pavements; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00139239
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309024838
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Sep 4 1976 12:00AM