Trails, Lanes, or Traffic: Valuing Bicycle Facilities with an Adaptive Stated Preference Survey

This study evaluates individual preferences for five different cycling environments by trading off a better facility with a higher travel time against a less attractive facility at a lower travel time. The tradeoff of travel time to amenities of a particular facility informs our understanding of the value attached to different attributes such as bike-lanes, off-road trails, or side-street parking. The facilities considered here are off-road facilities, in-traffic facilities with bike-lane and no on-street parking, in-traffic facilities with a bike-lane and on-street parking, in-traffic facilities with no bike-lane and no on-street parking and in-traffic facilities with no bike-lane but with parking on the side. The authors find that respondents are willing to travel up to twenty minutes more to switch from an unmarked on-road facility with side parking to an off-road bicycle trail, with smaller changes associated with less dramatic improvements.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstracts reprinted with permission from Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Tilahun, Nebiyou Y
  • Levinson, David M
  • Krizek, Kevin J
• Publication Date: 2007-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 287-301
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
  • Volume: 41
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0965-8564
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09658564

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bicycle facilities; Bicycle lanes; Bicycling; Bikeways; On street parking; Stated preferences; Surveys; Travel time
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Society; Terminals and Facilities; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01042781
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 1 2007 8:42AM