Visions for a walking and cycling focussed urban transport system

Tight, Miles; Timms, Paul; Banister, David; Bowmaker, Jemma; Copas, Jonathan; Day, A; Drinkwater, David; Givoni, Moshe; Gühnemann, Astrid; Lawler, Mary; Macmillen, James; Miles, Andrew; Moore, Niamh; Newton, Roger F.; Ngoduy, Dong; Ormerod, Marcus; O’Sullivan, Maria; Watling, David

doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2011.03.011

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“…It helps reduce urban traffic congestion levels [39,40]. Thanks to all of these advantages, it comes as no surprise that the bicycle has become a lifestyle choice [41] that should be encouraged to reduce the number of negative marginal effects involved in the usage of private automobiles [39].…”

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Cycling as a Smart and Green Mode of Transport in Small Touristic Cities

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Abstract:Cycling as a mode of transport is a low-cost, health-improving way to travel and offers environmental benefits for the cities that promote it. It is only recently, though, with concerns over climate change, pollution, congestion, and obesity among others, that have cities throughout the world have begun to implement policies to promote cycling. In Greece, however, the use of the bicycle is limited. In Preveza, a small touristic city in Northwestern Greece where the use of the bicycle is prominent when compared to other Greek cities, there are efforts to promote cycling. Through the aid of a structured questionnaire, the residents evaluated the suitability of the city for cycling, the existing infrastructure, appropriate education, and behavior of cyclists and drivers. More than half of the residents use bicycles as their transportation and stated that bicycles are an inexpensive way of transport in the city and had the opinion that the state should encourage bicycle use by supporting subvention in bicycle acquisition. Two-thirds of the residents evaluated the cycling facilities of their city as adequate, but unsafe for young cyclists who do not follow the rules of transport. Adult cyclists, in contrast, were more loyal to the code, but stated that drivers did not respect their presence on the roads. This research provides important information on the perceived shortcomings of cycling as a transport mode in Preveza that may be of interest to towns/cities with similar characteristics.

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Cycling as a Smart and Green Mode of Transport in Small Touristic Cities

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“…We assume that the local authority is planning to implement WaC schemes in three stages sequentially within the coming 20 years. A background overview of these WaC schemes is given in Timms and Tight (2010), Tight et al (2011). The causal relationships of all factors are collected in the implementing process in order to decide what to do next: either continue to implement the other schemes or stop.…”

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Dynamic Bayesian Belief Network to Model the Development of Walking and Cycling Schemes

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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation

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This paper aims to describe a model which represents the formulation of decision making processes (over a number of years) affecting the step-changes of walking and cycling (WaC) schemes. These processes can be seen as being driven by a number of causal factors, many of which are associated with the attitudes of a variety of factors, in terms of both determining whether any scheme will be implemented and, if it is implemented, the extent to which it is used. The outputs of the model are pathways as to how the future might unfold (in terms of a number of future time steps) with respect to specific pedestrian and cyclist schemes. The transitions of the decision making processes are formulated using a qualitative simulation method, which describes the step-changes of the WaC scheme development. In this paper a Bayesian belief network (BBN) theory is extended to model the influence between and within factors in the dynamic decision making process.

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“…This scenario exercise provides key insights into the likely key role for rail even if alternative intelligent transport systems are widely deployed and particularly in the face of a lack of technical progress with respect to aviation propulsion. Secondly, Tight et al (2011) focus on walking and cycling, using a visualization approach to test 'utopian thinking'. Three alternative futures in 2030 were developed through stakeholder engagement and described and debated in this paper.…”

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