Bicycles 2013: Planning, Design, Operations, and Infrastructure

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2387 consists of 17 papers that explore bicycle-specific traffic signals; automated collection of cyclist data; the role of the bicycle in the limitation of transportation poverty in the Netherlands; passing events in mixed bicycle traffic; driver and cyclist education materials; and station-level forecasting of bikesharing ridership.

This issue of the TRR also examines bicycle infrastructure quality-of-service metrics; bicyclist acceleration and speed distributions at intersections; commuter-cyclist travel behavior; public bikesharing in North America; multimodal conflicts in urban on-street bicycle lanes; the built environment and household electric bike ownership; short-term bikeshare users, annual members, and area cyclists in the Washington, D.C., region; North America’s first e-bikeshare; bicycling behavior; evaluation of innovative bicycle facilities in Washington, D.C.; and surface roughness standards for pathways used by wheelchairs.