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Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center, University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center

In communities across the world, there is a growing need and responsibility to provide options that give people the opportunity to bike—to bike more often, to bike to more places, and to feel safe while doing so. The benefits of riding a bicycle-whether for utilitarian or recreational purposes—can be expressed in terms of improved environmental and personal health, reduced traffic congestion, enhanced quality of life, economic rewards, as well as others. This section provides an overview on why it is important to bike and what we can do to make it easier to bike more often.

• Cycling and the Built Environment - A U.S. Perspective
  Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
  This disaggregate cross-sectional study uses primary data on the cycling behavior of 608 randomly sampled respondents in urbanized King County, Washington, and objective parcel-level GIS measures of land use and infrastructure conditions.
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• Transportation-Efficient Land Use Mapping Index(TELUMI)
  Phase 3 of Integrating Land Use and Transportation Investment Decision-Making
  Washington State Transportation Center (TRAC)
  The TELUMI is a set of maps that depicts how the region's urban form affects overall transportation system efficiency. Nine map layers represent the effects of individual land-use variables on transportation efficiency. They include density (residential and employment), mix of uses (shopping and school traffic, the presence of neighborhood centers (NC)), network connectivity (block size), parking supply (amount of parking at grade), pedestrian environment (slopes), and affordable housing.
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