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69 Conclusions and Application of Findings for Decision-Making Traditionally, transportation planning in the United States has been automobile focused, resulting in marginalization of healthy and active modes of transportation such as cycling. This marginalization has contributed to air pollution, increased dependence on fossil fuels, and increased social segregation, as well as an increase in obesity rates, heart disease, and asthma (Sallis et al.
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70 Bicyclist Facility Preferences and Effects on Increasing Bicycle Trips as clear of a distinction, with some feeling more stressed by the addition of more traffic, while others felt the extra space would give cyclists and drivers more room to stay out of each other's ways. A survey was designed to measure perceptions of and preferences for bicycle facilities, bicycling rates, and other pertinent data, and administered in Fall 2016 as a mail-out-mail-back home survey with an online questionnaire available.
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Conclusions and Application of Findings for Decision-Making 71 If individuals can view bicycling as an efficient, effective mode of travel that simultaneously benefits their own health, the environment, the economy, and quality of life, they may value bicycling. Effect of Treatments Respondents were largely aware of the "treatments" (in the form of new bicycle facilities)
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72 Bicyclist Facility Preferences and Effects on Increasing Bicycle Trips • Treatments were associated with marginal increases in perceived comfort and safety of the hypothetical facilities (as shown in photos) , but not with willingness to try bicycling.
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Conclusions and Application of Findings for Decision-Making 73 the new facility and who is not using it, but also who is aware of the facility and how it has changed their perceptions and attitudes toward bicycling. But a cross-section of households in the community is likely to include few bicyclists and even fewer individuals who adopted bicycling in response to the new facility.
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74 Bicyclist Facility Preferences and Effects on Increasing Bicycle Trips Focus Groups Presentation materials from the focus groups are provided as Appendix A To request more information on these materials, including how to get them in editable format, visit the NCHRP Project 08-102 web page at https://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?
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Conclusions and Application of Findings for Decision-Making 75 broader than cycling to ensure that participants remained interested and did not quit the survey if they did not recognize themselves as the "bicycling type." Similar studies may want to shorten the survey but should continue to include questions broader than just those about cycling to attempt to achieve an unbiased response. • Ideally, surveys should be mailed to households, so that access to the Internet is not a barrier to participation.
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76 Bicyclist Facility Preferences and Effects on Increasing Bicycle Trips volumes are similar in both seasons, but conducting a survey in winter and summer would not be appropriate. • Again, data cleaning should include the removal of unfinished surveys and those with a low portion of questions answered.
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