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Lessons About Sustainable Transportation Peter Furth, Northeastern University Prof. of Civil & Environmental Eng

Lessons About Sustainable Transportation Peter Furth, Northeastern University Prof. of Civil & Environmental Engineering. 1. Being bikable is a HUGE asset to a community. Recreation & Quality of Life Less Car Use Children.

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Lessons About Sustainable Transportation Peter Furth, Northeastern University Prof. of Civil & Environmental Eng

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  1. Lessons About Sustainable Transportation Peter Furth, Northeastern University Prof. of Civil & Environmental Engineering

  2. 1. Being bikable is a HUGE asset to a community • Recreation & Quality of Life • Less Car Use • Children

  3. 2. Mass bicycling requires a connected network of low-traffic-stress bike routes • Stand-alone paths • Roadside bike paths (cycle tracks) • Montreal (Rue de l’Université)

  4. Bike Lanes? May be high-stress • San Diego (Camino del Norte)

  5. Low-Stress Criteria from the Netherlands aFor designated bike routes, a bike lane or advisory bike lane is optional. bMay be an advisory bike lane on road sections with no centerline. cCycle track is preferred if there is parking; cycle track is recommended for designated bike routes. dAlthough CROW (2007) gives “mixed traffic” for this cell, the default \is to mark advisory bike lanes. eCycle track is preferred for designated bike routes.

  6. San Jose Street Network, All Levels of Stress

  7. Stress Level 3 or Less

  8. Stress Level 2 or Less

  9. Stress Level 1

  10. 3. Safe Bicycling Infrastructure is Feasible, and while it isn’t expensive, it isn’t cheap, either NOT $1-2 per person (bike infrastructure, Boston) NOT $500 per person (transit subsidy, Boston) NOT $350-700 per person (highways & roads) But $20 per person per year

  11. 4. Only high speed and/or high frequency transit, coupled with transit oriented development, can attract large numbers of choice travelers • Invest in a limited number of high speed quality lines, and concentrate development around them • Congestion protection (bus lanes) & signal priority • Off-vehicle fare collection • Widely spaced stops • Low speed, low frequency bus has a role for social service, but won’t accomplish “mass use” of transit • Bicycle is a superior mode for access to rail stations

  12. Bicycle is superior to local bus for access to train / metro Bicycle share of access to train, NL • Home to train: 40% by bike • Train to work: 12% by bike Delft (population 90,000) has 7,500 bike parking spaces at its two train stations, increasing to 9,000

  13. 5. While urban-area bike paths will be used more for transportation than for recreation, it’s politically wiser to promote them for recreation

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