BACKGROUND Encouraging cycling could increase levels of physical activity and health in the community. A population survey of cycling and physical activity was conducted as part of the baseline evaluation of a new intervention research project (Cycling Connecting Communities). METHODS A telephone survey of adults (18+) living within 2 kilometers of selected major new bicycle paths in 3 local ...

In 2008, a pioneering, Canadian company, Bixi, launched an urban bicycle-sharing program. With six years of award-winning success, Bixi’s bicycles rode to the rescue of commuters, the environmentally-friendly and the health-conscious in Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. Despite the acclaim, the company’s success came to an untimely end in February 2014 when it filed for bankruptcy. The city of Toro...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Bicycle share Transportation justice Low-cost mobility Public bicycle systems This paper seeks to examine the degree to which a public bicycle system could meet the needs of people in Cape Town, South Africa, a middle-income city with significant resource constraints and transport justice considerations. The local authority in Cape Town has an explicit policy to ...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Commuting by bicycle could contribute to public health, and route environments may influence this behaviour. Therefore, the aim of this study is to assess the potential associations between appraisals of the overall route environment as hindering or stimulating for bicycle commuting, with both perceptions of commuting route environmental factors in a suburban area and backgro...

w bile the United States has been investing in costly park-and-ride systems that have made transit increasingly dependent on the automobile, European and Japanese communities have been strengthening the potential for people to walk and bicycle to and from transit, boosting ridership at a far lower cost. In Japan and much of Europe, the fastest-growing and often predominant access mode to suburb...

Although much is known about the operation of signalized intersections, little or no empirical research has been conducted regarding bicycle capacity at these locations and the correspondent contributory factors. The purpose of this study is to accurately quantify the capacity of bikeway at signalized intersection through a fluid dispersion approach, and ultimately the lane group capacity. Usin...

In this paper we describe a method to reuse models with Model-Based Subgroup Discovery (MBSD), which is a extension of the Subgroup Discovery scheme. The task is to predict the number of bikes at a new rental station 3 hours in advance. Instead of training new models with the limited data from these new stations, our approach first selects a number of pre-trained models from old rental stations...