Understanding the relative attractiveness of alternatives to driving is vitally important toward lowering driving rates and, by extension, vehicle miles traveled (VMT), traffic congestion, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, etc. The relative effectiveness of automobile alternatives (i.e., buses, bicycling, and walking) depends on how well streets are designed to work for these respective modes in terms of safety, comfort and cost, which can sometimes pit their relative effectiveness against each other. In this report, the level of traffic stress (LTS) criteria previously developed by two of the authors was used to determine how the streets functioned for these auto alternative modes. The quality and extent of the transit service area was measured using a total travel time metric over the LTS network. The model developed in this study was applied to two transit routes in Oakland, California, and Denver, Colorado.
Improving Livability Using Green and Active Modes: A Traffic Stress Level Analysis of Transit, Bicycle, and Pedestrian Access and Mobility
2017
57 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Transportation , Energy Use, Supply, & Demand , Transportation & Traffic Planning , Computer Software , Applications Software , Urban Administration & Planning , Regional Administration & Planning , Network analysis , Bicycle , Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions , Transit service area , Traffic congestion costs , Pedestrian , Tolerance , Origin and desitation , Transit , Improving Livability , Traffic analysis , Greenhouse gas (GHG) , Bicycling behavior , Vehicle miles traveled (VMT) , Pedestrian access , Buses (Motor vehicles) , Travel time metric , Automobile alternatives
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