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

Thomas Alexander Sick Nielsen; Anton Stahl Olafsson; Trine Agervig Carstensen; Hans Skov-Petersen

doi:10.1016/j.trd.2013.02.017

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

Thomas Alexander Sick Nielsen, Anton Stahl Olafsson, Trine Agervig Carstensen, Hans Skov-Petersen

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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.

Original language	English
Journal	Transportation Research. Part D: Transport & Environment
Volume	22
Pages (from-to)	40-44
Number of pages	5
ISSN	1361-9209
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2013.02.017
Publication status	Published - Jul 2013

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Environmental correlates of cycling : evaluating urban form and location effects based on Danish micro-data. / Nielsen, Thomas Alexander Sick; Olafsson, Anton Stahl ; Carstensen, Trine Agervig et al.

In: Transportation Research. Part D: Transport & Environment, Vol. 22, 07.2013, p. 40-44.

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