TY - JOUR
T1 - How do people cycle in Amsterdam, Netherlands?
T2 - Estimating cyclists' route choice determinants with GPS data from an urban area
AU - Ton, Danique
AU - Cats, Oded
AU - Duives, Dorine
AU - Hoogendoorn, Serge
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Nowadays, the bicycle is seen as a sustainable and healthy substitute forthe car in urban environments. The Netherlands is the leading countryin bicycle use, especially in urban environments. Yet route choice modelsfeaturing inner-city travel that includes cyclists are lacking. This studyestimated a cyclists’ route choice model for the inner city of Amsterdam,Netherlands, on the basis of 3,045 trips collected with GPS data. The maincontribution of this study was the construction of the choice set with anempirical approach, which used only the observed trips in the data setto compose the choice alternatives. The findings suggested that cyclistswere insensitive to separate cycle paths in Amsterdam, a city characterizedby a dense cycle path network in which cycling was the most prominentmode of travel. In addition, cyclists were found to minimize traveldistance and the number of intersections per kilometer. The impact ofdistance on route choice increased during the morning peak when scheduleconstraints were more prevalent. Furthermore, overlapping routeswere more likely to be chosen by cyclists, everything else being the same.
AB - Nowadays, the bicycle is seen as a sustainable and healthy substitute forthe car in urban environments. The Netherlands is the leading countryin bicycle use, especially in urban environments. Yet route choice modelsfeaturing inner-city travel that includes cyclists are lacking. This studyestimated a cyclists’ route choice model for the inner city of Amsterdam,Netherlands, on the basis of 3,045 trips collected with GPS data. The maincontribution of this study was the construction of the choice set with anempirical approach, which used only the observed trips in the data setto compose the choice alternatives. The findings suggested that cyclistswere insensitive to separate cycle paths in Amsterdam, a city characterizedby a dense cycle path network in which cycling was the most prominentmode of travel. In addition, cyclists were found to minimize traveldistance and the number of intersections per kilometer. The impact ofdistance on route choice increased during the morning peak when scheduleconstraints were more prevalent. Furthermore, overlapping routeswere more likely to be chosen by cyclists, everything else being the same.
UR - http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9977775b-38fa-49bb-b686-00842daa061b
U2 - 10.3141/2662-09
DO - 10.3141/2662-09
M3 - Article
SN - 0361-1981
VL - 2662
SP - 75
EP - 82
JO - Transportation Research Record
JF - Transportation Research Record
IS - spec. issue: Bicycles
M1 - 09
ER -