Bikeway Provision and Bicycle Commuting: City-Level Empirical Findings from the US

Qiyao Yang, Jun Cai, Tao Feng, Zhengying Liu and Harry Timmermans
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Qiyao Yang: School of Architecture and Fine Art, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
Jun Cai: School of Architecture and Fine Art, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
Tao Feng: Department of the Built Environment, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Zhengying Liu: Department of the Built Environment, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Harry Timmermans: Department of the Built Environment, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 6, 1-15

Abstract: The growing worldwide awareness of the significant benefits of bicycling as an urban transport mode has aroused great interest in exploring the role that bikeways play in promoting utilitarian bicycling. However, few studies assess the contribution of citywide bikeway provision with the inclusion of all facility types and differentiation of facility utilities. This study provides new evidence by evaluating the collective effects of bikeway kilometers per square kilometer, bikeway kilometers per 10,000 population, and low-stress bikeway proportion on the bicycle-commuting share in 28 US cities between 2005 and 2017. Using linear panel regression models, we found that the expansion of citywide bikeway infrastructure positively influences the share of commute trips by bicycle. The results also indicated that the proportion of low-stress bikeways has a stronger impact on the bicycling-to-work share than bikeway kilometers per 10,000 population, while the impact of bikeway kilometers per square kilometer ranks last. These findings may aid policy makers and planners in formulating sound city-level bikeway policies favoring sustainable urban transportation scenarios.

Keywords: provision of bikeway infrastructure; bicycling to work; city level; collective effects; panel analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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