Bicycle System Performance Measures

摘要

Today's trend toward quantitative analysis puts more pressure than ever on transportation planners to provide project planning "by the numbers." Increasingly, project prioritiza-tion for recurring Transportation Improvement Plans (TIPs), Capital Improvement Plans (CIPs), and metropolitan area Long Range Plans (LRTPs) requires a numerical basis to demonstrate that all projects can reach measurable objectives. This requirement, coupled with the comparative infancy of bicycle system planning, poses a formidable challenge to transportation planners, who may be faced with having to provide numerical justification for a bicycle facility. However, two recently developed analytical tools, the Interaction Hazard Score and Latent Demand Score models, enable planners to quantitatively evaluate, test and prioritize on-road bicycle projects.