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Impact of Bike Facilities on Residential Property Prices
Jenny Liu
Wei Shi
As many cities are investing in street improvement or transportation infrastructure upgrade projects to provide better bike access or more complete bike networks, the economic value of bike infrastructure and bike facilities remains an area where man ...
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Drive Oregon E-Bike Transit Connection Experimental Pilot Project
John MacArthur
The program’s primary goal is to test user acceptance of electric-assist folding bicycles (IZIP E3 Compact) as a first/last mile commuting solution and be able to communicate positive stories to a broad range of workplaces to help reduce single occ ...
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Transportation Leadership Education
Nathan McNeil
The Portland Traffic and Transportation course serves a number of different purposes. On one hand, it is designed to develop citizens who are informed about the transportation system, including how it got where it is today, what agencies and actors p ...
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Online Implementation Resource of Innovative Bicycle and Pedestrian Facilities (IBPI)
Jennifer Dill
Online Implementation Resource of Innovative Bicycle and Pedestrian Facilities sponsored by Summit Foundation
IBPI: Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation ...
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Washington State Pedestrian and Bicycle Miles Traveled Project
Krista Nordback
Estimates of vehicle miles traveled (VMT) drive policy and planning decisions for surface transportation. No similar metric is computed for cycling and walking. What approaches could be used to compute such a metric on the state level? This report di ...
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Shared Space and Bicyclists
Allison Duncan
Shared space is a traffic calming technique and design concept. The technique is relatively new, and the majority of existing research concerns pedestrians only. This mixed methods study will be international in scope focusing on intersections in E ...
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Evaluating the Use of Crowdsourcing as a Data Collection Method for Bicycle Performance Measures and Identification of Facility Improvement Needs
Miguel Andres Figliozzi
Although there is a great body of knowledge and practice to measure motorized vehicle highway infrastructure performance levels and activity, the same cannot be said about bicycle infrastructure performance and network usage. Although the Oregon Depa ...
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Bicyclists’ Uptake of Traffic-Related Air Pollution: Effects of the Urban Transportation System
Alex Bigazzi
While bicyclists and other active travelers obtain health benefits from increased physical activity, they also risk uptake of traffic-related air pollution. But pollution uptake by urban bicyclists is not well understood due to a lack of direct measu ...
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Evaluation of Bicyclists Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution along Distinct Facility Types
Miguel Andres Figliozzi
James Pankow
While bicyclists and other active travelers obtain health benefits from increased physical activity, they also risk an uptake of traffic-related air pollution. But pollution uptake by urban bicyclists is not well understood due to a lack of direct me ...
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Application of Interactive Video Sensing and Management for Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Studies
Wu-chi Feng
Christopher Monsere , Miguel Andres Figliozzi
As video data collection and storage technologies become ubiquitous and inexpensive, transportation agencies struggle to process and extract "intelligence" or useful information from growing libraries of archived video data. In some cases us ...
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Lessons from the Green Lanes: Evaluating Protected Bike Lanes in the U.S.
Christopher Monsere
Jennifer Dill , Kelly Clifton , Nathan McNeil
This report presents finding from research evaluating U.S. protected bicycle lanes (cycle tracks) in terms of their use, perception, benefits, and impacts. This research examines protected bicycle lanes in five cities: Austin, TX; Chicago, IL; Portla ...
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Travel Mode Choice Framework Incorporating Realistic Bike and Walk Routes
Joe Broach
For a number of reasons (congestion, public health, greenhouse gas emissions, energy use, demographic shifts, and community livability to name a few), the importance of walking and bicycling as transportation options will likely continue to increase. ...
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