| Comprehensive Bibliography of Bicycle Benefit and Cost Research The pages linked below provide lists
of significant research references on various topics related to
bicycling policy. The lists do not at this time include every
reference that we have found; we have focused more on those that
are relatively recent and easily accessible, and on those that
have been most useful to us for our research. Most sources have
a web link listed; of those that do not, most are academic journals
or government documents that should be available at most university
libraries. The Transportation Research Record journal is often
available at state DOT libraries, and possibly at some university
libraries, or through interlibrary loan.
The sources we have found fall naturally into a few fairly distinct
categories:
Amount of bicycling (demand): Documents that address why
people do or do not bicycle, and that describe the amount and
characteristics of bicycling and the people who do it. It can
be broken into two subcategories, which overlap to some extent.
- Measurement
and forecasting: Describing the amount of bicycling in an
area, either through direct measurement such as counts or diaries,
or through developing forecasting models.
- Surveys:
Describing bicycling demand more from a qualitative or attitudinal
perspective, focusing more on why it does or does not happen.
Benefits of bicycling: Documents that describe and sometimes
quantify the various benefits that bicycling provides to those
that do it as well as society more broadly. Again, the literature
can be broken into two somewhat distinct categories.
- Economic
benefits: Addressing the impact that bicycling has on local
and regional economies. Some reports focus on specific facilities
such as rail-trail conversions and some on bicycling more generally.
- Other
benefits: All the other benefits that cycling confers that
are not "economic" in nature (health, quality of life,
congestion reduction, etc.)
Design-behavior-safety:
Documents that address the three closely related issues of how
facilities are or should be designed, how riders behave and how
facility design impacts this, and rider safety and how it depends
on facility design and rider behavior.
Urban design:
A few academic papers that address how urban design and land use
affects travel decisions; touching directly or by implication
on bicycling.
Miscellaneous:
A few sources that provide useful references or philosophical
perspectives.
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