Bike share is growing at an astounding clip across the U.S., with over 88 million trips made on a bike share bike in the U.S. since 2010. In 2016 alone, riders took over 28 million trips, on par with the annual ridership of the entire Amtrak system, and higher than the number of people visiting Walt Disney World each year.
Thu 31st Aug 2017
Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety
This report contains the conference proceedings from the Transport Research Board's (TRB) 10th University Transportation Centers Spotlight Conference on Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety.
Wed 12th Jul 2017
Improving Livability Using Green and Active Modes
This research looks at improving livability through green and active modes by conducting a a traffic stress level analysis of transit, bicycle, and pedestrian access and mobility.
Wed 12th Jul 2017
Analyzing the Impact of Median Treatments on Pedestrian/Bicyclist Safety
This paper seeks to quantify their impact of various median treatments on pedestrian/bicyclist safety at mid-block crossings.
Thu 15th Jun 2017
Safer cycling through improved infrastructure
This article outlines how cycling numbers and safety is improved by improved infrastructure.
Wed 14th Jun 2017
Safety of raised platforms on urban roads (p20-27)
Using available speed and crash data from across Australia, this paper applied Poisson regression analysis in a retrospective quasi-experimental study to determine the effect of raised platforms on crash occurrence and severity.
Fri 2nd Jun 2017
Bicycle Education for Children Evaluation of a Program in Montreal
The purpose of this study was to evaluate an on- and off-bicycle education program for school-aged children in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to understand how education influences the cycling behavior and attitudes of children and parents.
Thu 25th May 2017
Revealed Bicyclist Route Preferences and Street Conditions
In this study, the route choices of cyclists in an urban environment were related to nine variables on street design and dynamics: tree shade, car parking, traffic speed, traffic volume, mixed or segregated traffic, dedicated bicycle facility, number of car lanes, number of restaurants, and number of retail stores.
Thu 25th May 2017
Assessing the Economic Impact and Health Effects of Bicycling in Minnesota
This project estimated the economic impact of the bicycling industry and events in Minnesota, estimated bicycling infrastructure use across the state, and assessed the health effects of bicycling in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
Tue 23rd May 2017
Rapidly Expanding Mobile Apps for Crowd-sourcing Bike Data to New Cities
This project takes the first steps towards helping to overcome the barriers to wide-scale adoption of bike data crowd-sourcing mobile apps by creating a proof-of-concept “multi-region” architecture, allowing cities to share the same set of mobile apps on the Android and iOS apps stores while setting up their own server specific to their geographic area.
