The Propensity to Cycle Tool: An open source online system for sustainable transport planning
Getting people cycling is an increasingly common objective in transport planning institutions worldwide. A growing evidence base indicates that high quality infrastructure can boost local cycling rates. Yet for infrastructure and other cycling measures to be effective, it is important to intervene i...
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| author | Robin Lovelace Anna Goodman Rachel Aldred Nikolai Berkoff Ali Abbas James Woodcock |
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| description | Getting people cycling is an increasingly common objective in transport planning institutions worldwide. A growing evidence base indicates that high quality infrastructure can boost local cycling rates. Yet for infrastructure and other cycling measures to be effective, it is important to intervene in the right places, such as along ‘desire lines’ of high latent demand. This creates the need for tools and methods to help answer the question ‘where to build?’. Following a brief review of the policy and research context related to this question, this paper describes the design, features and potential applications of such a tool. The Propensity to Cycle Tool (PCT) is an online, interactive planning support system that was initially developed to explore and map cycling potential across England (see www.pct.bike). Based on origin-destination data it models cycling levels at area, desire line, route and route network levels, for current levels of cycling, and for scenario-based ‘cycling futures.’ Four scenarios are presented, including ‘Go Dutch’ and ‘Ebikes,’ which explore what would happen if English people had the same propensity to cycle as Dutch people and the potential impact of electric cycles on cycling uptake. The cost effectiveness of investment depends not only on the number of additional trips cycled, but on wider impacts such as health and carbon benefits. The PCT reports these at area, desire line, and route level for each scenario. The PCT is open source, facilitating the creation of scenarios and deployment in new contexts. We conclude that the PCT illustrates the potential of online tools to inform transport decisions and raises the wider issue of how models should be used in transport planning. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-48016c7fbb5d4e4da91be941374abcbe2025-08-20T02:15:52ZengUniversity of Minnesota Libraries PublishingJournal of Transport and Land Use1938-78492017-01-0110110.5198/jtlu.2016.862The Propensity to Cycle Tool: An open source online system for sustainable transport planningRobin Lovelace0Anna Goodman1Rachel Aldred2Nikolai Berkoff3Ali Abbas4James Woodcock5University of LeedsLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicineUniversity of WestminsterIndependent web developerUniversity of CambridgeUniversity of CambridgeGetting people cycling is an increasingly common objective in transport planning institutions worldwide. A growing evidence base indicates that high quality infrastructure can boost local cycling rates. Yet for infrastructure and other cycling measures to be effective, it is important to intervene in the right places, such as along ‘desire lines’ of high latent demand. This creates the need for tools and methods to help answer the question ‘where to build?’. Following a brief review of the policy and research context related to this question, this paper describes the design, features and potential applications of such a tool. The Propensity to Cycle Tool (PCT) is an online, interactive planning support system that was initially developed to explore and map cycling potential across England (see www.pct.bike). Based on origin-destination data it models cycling levels at area, desire line, route and route network levels, for current levels of cycling, and for scenario-based ‘cycling futures.’ Four scenarios are presented, including ‘Go Dutch’ and ‘Ebikes,’ which explore what would happen if English people had the same propensity to cycle as Dutch people and the potential impact of electric cycles on cycling uptake. The cost effectiveness of investment depends not only on the number of additional trips cycled, but on wider impacts such as health and carbon benefits. The PCT reports these at area, desire line, and route level for each scenario. The PCT is open source, facilitating the creation of scenarios and deployment in new contexts. We conclude that the PCT illustrates the potential of online tools to inform transport decisions and raises the wider issue of how models should be used in transport planning.https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/862CyclingPlanningModellingParticipatory |
| spellingShingle | Robin Lovelace Anna Goodman Rachel Aldred Nikolai Berkoff Ali Abbas James Woodcock The Propensity to Cycle Tool: An open source online system for sustainable transport planning Journal of Transport and Land Use Cycling Planning Modelling Participatory |
| title | The Propensity to Cycle Tool: An open source online system for sustainable transport planning |
| title_full | The Propensity to Cycle Tool: An open source online system for sustainable transport planning |
| title_fullStr | The Propensity to Cycle Tool: An open source online system for sustainable transport planning |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Propensity to Cycle Tool: An open source online system for sustainable transport planning |
| title_short | The Propensity to Cycle Tool: An open source online system for sustainable transport planning |
| title_sort | propensity to cycle tool an open source online system for sustainable transport planning |
| topic | Cycling Planning Modelling Participatory |
| url | https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/862 |
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