TY - JOUR
T1 - Heterogeneity in the relationship between biking and the built environment
AU - Salon, Deborah
AU - Conway, Matthew Wigginton
AU - Wang, Kailai
AU - Roth, Nathaniel
N1 - Funding Information:
Data collection and assembly for this project was funded by the California Department of Transportation (Contract No. 65A0404). The authors would also like to thank Susan Handy, who was the principal investigator on the original project and provided useful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript. The contents of this report reflect the views of the authors who are responsible for the facts and accuracy of the data presented herein. The contents do not necessarily reflect the official views or policies of the State of California or the Federal Highway Administration. The authors also gratefully acknowledge partial support from the Center for Teaching Old Models New Tricks (TOMNET), a University Transportation Center sponsored by the US Department of Transportation through Grant No. 69A3551747116.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Deborah Salon, Matthew Wigginton Conway, Kailai Wang & Nathaniel Roth.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Bicycling is an environmentally friendly, healthy, and affordable mode of transportation that is viable for short-distance trips. Urban planners, public health advocates, and others are therefore looking for strategies to promote more bicycling, including improvements to the built environment that make bicycling more attractive. This study presents an analysis of how key built environment characteristics relate to bicycling frequency based on a large sample from the 2012 California Household Travel Survey (California Department of Transportation, 2012) and detailed built environment data. The built environment characteristics we explore include residential and intersection density at anchor locations (home, work, school), green space, job access, land-use mix, and bicycle infrastructure availability. Analyses are conducted separately for three distinct demographic groups: school-age children, employed adults, and adults who are not employed. The key conclusion from this work is that the relationship between bicycling and some built environment characteristics varies between types of people — most dramatically between adults and children. To develop targeted policies with scarce resources, local policymakers need specific guidance as to which investments and policy changes will be most effective for creating “bike-able” neighborhoods. Our work indicates that the answer depends — at least in part — on who these bikeable neighborhoods are meant to serve.
AB - Bicycling is an environmentally friendly, healthy, and affordable mode of transportation that is viable for short-distance trips. Urban planners, public health advocates, and others are therefore looking for strategies to promote more bicycling, including improvements to the built environment that make bicycling more attractive. This study presents an analysis of how key built environment characteristics relate to bicycling frequency based on a large sample from the 2012 California Household Travel Survey (California Department of Transportation, 2012) and detailed built environment data. The built environment characteristics we explore include residential and intersection density at anchor locations (home, work, school), green space, job access, land-use mix, and bicycle infrastructure availability. Analyses are conducted separately for three distinct demographic groups: school-age children, employed adults, and adults who are not employed. The key conclusion from this work is that the relationship between bicycling and some built environment characteristics varies between types of people — most dramatically between adults and children. To develop targeted policies with scarce resources, local policymakers need specific guidance as to which investments and policy changes will be most effective for creating “bike-able” neighborhoods. Our work indicates that the answer depends — at least in part — on who these bikeable neighborhoods are meant to serve.
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U2 - 10.5198/jtlu.2019.1350
DO - 10.5198/jtlu.2019.1350
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85064200152
SN - 1938-7849
VL - 12
SP - 99
EP - 126
JO - Journal of Transport and Land Use
JF - Journal of Transport and Land Use
IS - 1
ER -