Modeling Bikeability of Urban Systems. Issue 1 (14th April 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gholamialam, Ashkan; Matisziw, Timothy C.
• Is Part Of: Geographical analysis. Volume 51:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 73
• Page End: 89
• Publication Date: 2018-04-14
• Subjects: Geography -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; 910.00182
• DOI: 10.1111/gean.12159
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0016-7363

Abstract

Abstract : There are characteristics of urban transportation infrastructure that are thought to influence use by bicyclists given their perceived effect on safety, comfort, and efficiency. Prior research has primarily focused on assessing the qualities of individual road segments and analysis of one or a few routes connecting pairs of origins and destinations (ODs). To address these limitations, a multicriterion shortest path framework is proposed for evaluating the characteristics of alternative routes and measuring their tradeoffs with respect to three routing objectives. A label correcting algorithm is described for identifying the complete set of routes optimizing the three objectives and metrics are developed to summarize variations in bikeability within an urban environment. The proposed methods are applied to a case study involving 27, 722 urban ODs, yielding 329, 931 paths optimal with respect to some combination of the three routing objectives. In particular, 77, 418 paths (23.5%) were found to optimize one or more of the three individual routing objectives while 252, 513 paths (76.5%) were found to optimize some tradeoff among the three routing objectives. This large number of Pareto‐optimal tradeoff paths underscores the importance of not limiting analysis of routing alternatives to one or two individual objectives.