Environmental correlates of cycling: evaluating urban form and location effects based on Danish micro-data

TY - JOUR

T1 - Environmental correlates of cycling

T2 - evaluating urban form and location effects based on Danish micro-data

AU - Nielsen, Thomas Alexander Sick

AU - Olafsson, Anton Stahl

AU - Carstensen, Trine Agervig

AU - Skov-Petersen, Hans

PY - 2013/7

Y1 - 2013/7

N2 - The paper analyses the environmental correlates of cycling based on Danish transportation and urban form micro-data. The results show that established walkability factors such as density, connectivity and diversity are related to cycling, but access to retail concentrations/centres, public transportation level-of-service, as well as competition between walking and cycling depending on environmental features can be added. Attractive conditions for using public transportation or walking are related to less cycling. The findings quantify the effects of urban form on the probability of cycling and the distance cycled. A high probability of cycling generally implies short cycling distances leading to non-uniform, non-monotonous relationship between environmental indicators such as walkability and cycling.

AB - The paper analyses the environmental correlates of cycling based on Danish transportation and urban form micro-data. The results show that established walkability factors such as density, connectivity and diversity are related to cycling, but access to retail concentrations/centres, public transportation level-of-service, as well as competition between walking and cycling depending on environmental features can be added. Attractive conditions for using public transportation or walking are related to less cycling. The findings quantify the effects of urban form on the probability of cycling and the distance cycled. A high probability of cycling generally implies short cycling distances leading to non-uniform, non-monotonous relationship between environmental indicators such as walkability and cycling.

U2 - 10.1016/j.trd.2013.02.017

DO - 10.1016/j.trd.2013.02.017

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1361-9209

VL - 22

SP - 40

EP - 44

JO - Transportation Research. Part D: Transport & Environment

JF - Transportation Research. Part D: Transport & Environment

ER -