Understanding and Modeling Non-motorized Travel Behavior

点击翻译按钮获取中文摘要

Sustainable urban planning seeks to enhance quality of life by deemphasizing cars as a preferred means of travel. The strategies for achieving this include walkable neighborhoods, mixed-use environments, transit-oriented development, densification, complete streets, and multi-modal transportation systems. However, predicting the impacts from such strategies requires forecasting models that incorporate all modes of travel, not just cars and transit. Given that urban planning in Canada now focuses on sustainability, there is a timely need to further our understanding of non-motorized travel behavior – walking and bicycling – and develop forecasting models that can be used to evaluate the strategies listed above.