A Bike System for All in Silicon Valley: Equity Assessment of Bike Infrastructure in San José, CA [Research Brief]

Details

• Creators:
  Zandiatashbar, Ahoura ; Albrecht, Jochen ; Nixon, Hilary
• Corporate Creators:
  Mineta Transportation Institute ; San Jose State University. College of Business
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program ; United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Bicycle facilities
  • Bicycle travel
  • Equity (Justice)
  • Infrastructure
  • Nonmotorized transportation
  • Spatial analysis
  • Bikeways Bikeability
  • Bike equity
  • Transportation equity
  • Active mobility
• Publication/ Report Number:
  Project 2162
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Geographical Coverage:
  San Jose (California);United States
• Edition:
  Research Brief
• Corporate Publisher:
  Mineta Transportation Institute
• Abstract:
  The growing interest in expanding bike networks in cities and allocating funds for Bicycle Master Plans require careful planning to assess equity and to ensure a fair distribution of bike infrastructure. This means city officials need frameworks with clear workflows, instructions, and details to accurately measure the bike network’s availability and quality to achieve equity goals. However, most assessment methods neglect differences in bike path classes that provide different safety and comfort levels for cyclists. This project fills this gap by using a granular bike network dataset with statistical and geospatial analyses to quantify a bike infrastructure availability score to account for the availability of bike paths as well as the variation of safety and comfort across different bike path classes in San José, California.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/73097/dot_73097_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.79 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:078819d563576632b197ba2cbf545457a65507ebf6e245ece8f1c78b83e4d1f06927e535e0fb7226a993e2dda8e3726a4f2b3a3f94e88631eef734a279a2ce7f