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Over recent decades, bicycling has received renewed interest as a means of improving transportation through crowded cities, and also of improving personal health, and reducing environmental impacts associated with travel. While interdisciplinary in scope, this book takes a primarily planning approach to examining bicycling in urban areas.
List of contents
Advancing Bicycle Urbanism, Rachel Berney; 1. Bike paths to nowhere: Bicycle infrastructure that ignores the street network, Steven Fleming; 2. Traffic signal equity: Crossing the street to active transportation, Cathy Tuttle; 3. The role of personas in cycling advocacy, Robert W. Edmiston; 4. Instagramming urban design along the Ohlone Greenway, Benedict Han; 5. A look at bicycle commuting by low-income New Yorkers using the CEO Poverty Measure, Todd Seidel, Mark Levitan, Christine D’Onofrio, John Krampner, and Daniel Scheer; 6. Middle modalism: The proliferation of e-bikes and implications for planning and urban design, Derek Chisholm and Justin Healy; 7. Why we should stop talking about speed limits and start talking about speed, Arthur Slabosky; 8. A framework to analyze the economic feasibility of cycling facilities, Mingxin Li and Ardeshir Faghri; 9. Secure investment for active transport: Willingness to pay for secured bicycle parking in Montreal, Canada, Dea van Lierop, Brian H.Y. Lee, and Ahmed M. El-Geneidy; 10. Site suitability and public participation: A study for a bike-sharing program in a college town, Yuwen Hou and Mônica A. Haddad; 11. How GPS route data collected from smartphones can benefit bicycle planning, Joel L. Meyer and Jennifer C. Duthie; 12. Mapping GPS data and assessing mapping accuracy, Katie A. Kam, Joel L. Meyer, Jennifer C. Duthie, and Hamza Khan
About the author
Rachel Berney is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
Summary
Over recent decades, bicycling has received renewed interest as a means of improving transportation through crowded cities, and also of improving personal health, and reducing environmental impacts associated with travel. While interdisciplinary in scope, this book takes a primarily planning approach to examining bicycling in urban areas.
