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Cycling in Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Route Choice Behavior and Implications for Infrastructure Planning
- Source :
- Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. 2662:41-49
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2017.
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Abstract
- This research investigated the route choice behavior of cyclists in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with data collected from a smartphone application deployed to many cyclists in the city. For the study, 4,556 cyclists registered and logged more than 30,000 commuting trips over 9 months. In addition to the time-stamped, second-by-second GPS readings on each trip, information on age, gender, and rider history was collected on a voluntary basis. Multinomial logit route choice models were estimated for the commuting cycling trips. The results revealed the critical importance of cycling facilities (e.g., bike lanes, cycling paths and trails) on cyclists’ route choice decisions, and provided valuable information for use in Toronto’s ongoing bicycle network planning.
- Subjects :
- 050210 logistics & transportation
business.industry
Mechanical Engineering
05 social sciences
0211 other engineering and technologies
021107 urban & regional planning
02 engineering and technology
Smartphone application
Transport engineering
Geography
0502 economics and business
Global Positioning System
TRIPS architecture
Cycling
business
Infrastructure planning
Civil and Structural Engineering
Multinomial logistic regression
Ontario canada
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Details
- ISSN :
- 21694052 and 03611981
- Volume :
- 2662
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........c443835fa270f7df831677192b8e9fb5