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Research Team Narrative

Bicycle Transportation in San Diego: Increasing Ridership

Academic Year

2010-2011

Overview

This team project has three components:

1. The San Diego County Bicycle Coalition (SDCBC) has given us the assignment of creating a GIS database that will store data related to current and proposed bicycle projects in San Diego. This will enable the coalition executive director to easily access, among other things, to information requested by regional and municipal governments on the status of bicycle projects in the region. Such information will be used to determine where funds can or should be allocated. The geodatabase we create will also be used by future interns and SDCBC staff, interns, or volunteers to easily update the information when new project proposals are delivered. Additionally, it is a GIS project structure that can be duplicated in other regions.

2. Because we both intern at the SDCBC, and the office is shared with WalkSanDiego, we have access to relevant contacts in the non-profit and sustainability advocate community to seek additions to the Global ARC.

3. There are similarities in our research theses. This will enable us to do some collective research that will have real world relevance and can be provided to the SDCBC and other bicycle advocate groups.

Student Leader

• Robert Felix

Students

• Melody Wu

Key Terms

sustainable transportation, bicycle policies, alternative transportation, urban design and policy, bicycle trip making

References

Beatley, Timothy. 2000. Green Urbanism: learning from European cities. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
Buehler, Theodore J. 2007. Fifty Years of Bicycle Policy in Davis, CA, Institute for Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis, Davis, California.
Krizek, Kevin J., Gary Barnes, and Kristin Thompson. 2009. Analyzing the Effect of Bicycle Facilities on Commute Mode Share over Time. Journal of Urban Planning and Development 135 (2):66-73.
Rietveld, Piet, and Vanessa Daniel. 2004. Determinnats of Bicycle Use: Do Municipal Policies Matter? Transportation Research Part A 38 (7):531-550.
Wright, Kathryn M. 2007. Can Federal Funding Create Bicycle Friendly Cities? A Comparative Study of Bicycle Planning in Sacramento and Amsterdam. Davis, California: University of California, Davis.
Pucher, John and Buehler, Ralph (2008) ‘Making Cycling Irresistible: Lessons from The Netherlands, Denmark and Germany’, Transport Reviews, 28:4, 495-528. http://www.policy.rutgers.edu/faculty/pucher/Irresistible.pdf. 15 October 2010.