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Research Highlights
Evaluating Efforts to Improve the Equity of Bike Share Systems
Nathan McNeil
John MacArthur , Jennifer Dill , Joe Broach
BREAKING BARRIERS TO BIKE SHARE: Insights on Equity.
Public bike share systems have rapidly expanded across the United States in recent years. However, there is evidence that significant portions of the population are underrepresented among bike share users, including people of color, along with lower-income, female, older adults and less-educated groups. Lack of bike share stations in neighborhoods with people of color and/or lower incomes is one factor, but does not completely explain th...
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Transferability & Forecasting of the Pedestrian Index Environment (PIE) for Modeling Applications
Kelly Clifton
There have been important advances in non-motorized planning tools in recent years, including the development of the MoPeD pedestrian demand model (Clifton et al., 2013, 2015). This tool and others are increasingly requested by governments and agencies seeking to increase walking activity and create more walkable places. To date, the MoPeD tool has been piloted with success in the Portland region using data unique to Metro, the metropolitan planning organization. However, there is increasing ...
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