Title: A Computer-Aided Approach for Planning Sustainable Trips to Large Trip Generators: The Case of Cycling Routes Serving University Campuses
Abstract: This manuscript describes a computer-aided approach for the design and evaluation of potential impacts of new cycling routes connecting a university campus with the city’s street network. The routes were based on the analyses of actual trips reported in a survey carried out with over 900 undergraduate students, and field information obtained from Google Earth (GE). Whereas GE helped in the identification of suitable paths, GIS tools were used to assess the potential impacts of the proposed routes on bicycle, car and walking trips. The results show that the proposed methodology is adequate for exploratory studies and transferable to a Planning Support System (PSS). Such a system could be designed for a variety of goals, such as design of paths, management of bicycles flows, etc. Although this study focuses on the particular case of a university campus, the approach can be easily applied to other large trip generators.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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