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Bicycling Access and Egress to Transit: Informing the Possibilities (USA)

This research report by Mineta Transportation Institute was published in April 2011. The report looks at cost effective ways of encouraging cyclists onto public transport. Intergrating bicycles with public transport increases the efficiency of both transport modes and brings a range of benefits to communites.

When effectively integrated with transit services, considerable room exists for bicycling to realize various benefits to communities. A successful marriage between bicycling and transit will likely increase the use and efficiency of both modes. A core problem, however, exists in that the predominant approach for integrating bicycles and transit—bicycles aboard transit vehicles—frequently runs up against capacity restraints. Integrating bicycling and transit requires analysis of a broad range of alternatives that considers both the travel patterns and needs of individuals but also accompanying urban form characteristics. What are the most cost effective strategies likely to generate the largest number of cyclists accessing transit?


To aid in developing a framework to evaluate the cost effectiveness of different strategies to integrate transit and bicycling this project:

(1) reviews the state of the knowledge,

(2) proposes an analysis framework for communities and transit agencies to consider in efforts to maximize the integration of bicycling and transit,

(3) conducts focus groups with cyclists from five case study communities to gauge preferences for bicycle and transit integration strategies, and

(4) develops a preliminary application to evaluate four bicycle and transit integration strategies based on focus group discussions and use of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP).

These evaluation measures are applied to five North American communities.

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