Heterogeneity in the relationship between biking and the built environment
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 m...
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| description | 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 “bikeable” 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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| spelling | doaj-art-9834bdb92a544e25969ac068bd10ffeb2025-08-20T03:06:10ZengUniversity of Minnesota Libraries PublishingJournal of Transport and Land Use1938-78492019-01-0112110.5198/jtlu.2019.1350Heterogeneity in the relationship between biking and the built environmentDeborah Salon0Matthew Wigginton Conway1Kailai Wang2Nathaniel RothArizona State UniversityArizona State UniversityThe Ohio State UniversityBicycling 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 “bikeable” neighborhoods. Our work indicates that the answer depends — at least in part — on who these bikeable neighborhoods are meant to serve.https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/1350bicyclingactive travelbuilt environmentland usechildren |
| spellingShingle | Deborah Salon Matthew Wigginton Conway Kailai Wang Nathaniel Roth Heterogeneity in the relationship between biking and the built environment Journal of Transport and Land Use bicycling active travel built environment land use children |
| title | Heterogeneity in the relationship between biking and the built environment |
| title_full | Heterogeneity in the relationship between biking and the built environment |
| title_fullStr | Heterogeneity in the relationship between biking and the built environment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Heterogeneity in the relationship between biking and the built environment |
| title_short | Heterogeneity in the relationship between biking and the built environment |
| title_sort | heterogeneity in the relationship between biking and the built environment |
| topic | bicycling active travel built environment land use children |
| url | https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/1350 |
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