Reasons Why Bicycling and Walking Are Not Being Used More Extensively as Travel Modes
ثبت نشده
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Differences Between Walking and Bicycling Over Time : Implications for Performance Measurement
Transportation policies and plans encourage non-motorized transportation and the establishment of performance measures to assess progress towards multi-modal system goals. Challenges in fostering walking and bicycling include the lack of data for measuring rates of walking and bicycling over time and 5! differences in pedestrians and bicyclists and the trips they make. This paper analyzes trave...
متن کاملUsers of Different Travel Modes Differ in Journey Satisfaction and Habit Strength but Not Environmental Worldviews: a Large-scale Survey of Drivers, Walkers, Bicyclists and Bus Users Commuting to a Uk University
People who travel to the same university workplace by bicycle, bus, car, and walking were compared in a survey (N=1609). Data are presented on environmental worldviews, journey affective appraisals, and habit strength. Unexpectedly, findings showed comparable levels of environmental worldview across modes. This might reflect the role of attitudes on behaviour, or question the validity of the es...
متن کاملMobility in the Transition to Retirement – the Intertwining of Everyday Transportation and Physical Activity
To retire from work has potential consequences for patterns of everyday mobility in numerous ways. People born during the 1940s and are now retiring are more heterogeneous than earlier cohorts of retirees. They experience more years with good health after retirement, engage more in leisure-time activities and make more trips and errands. Therefore, their transportation behavior and mobility pat...
متن کاملImpact of Ambient Built-Environment Attributes on Sustainable Travel Modes: A Spatial Analysis in Chittenden County, Vermont
Non-motorized travel in terms of walking or bicycling plays a critical role in promoting healthy living style, offering sustainable alternatives to environmental impacts, energy consumption, and societal costs of motorized travel modes, and allocating limited resources for constructing pedestrian-orientated transportation infrastructure facilities. Historically, much research has been focused o...
متن کاملAn international study of the exposure of children to traffic.
OBJECTIVES To examine the extent of international differences in children's exposure to traffic as pedestrians or bicyclists. DESIGN Children's travel patterns were surveyed using a parent-child administered questionnaire. Children were sampled via primary schools, using a probability cluster sampling design. SETTING Six cities in five countries: Melbourne and Perth (Australia), Montreal (C...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
عنوان ژورنال:
دوره شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1998