Ranking Procedures for Bicycle Projects

1986

EUROPEAN RESEARCH STUDIES JOURNAL, 2021

The transportation projects are evaluated comprehensively, using different perspectives and aspects of assessment. The purpose of the paper is to present the assessment methodology Design/Methodology/Approach: The evaluation has been formulated as a multiple level, multiple criteria ranking problem with a hierarchical, 3-level structure. At each level of the analysis the transportation projects are assessed by a set of criteria, including transportation project operational characteristics, transportation policybased, tactical criteria and a highlevel, long-term impact, strategic measures. Separate rankings of the considered projects have been generated for all levels of the hierarchy. Their original aggregation procedure, based on the transportation projects' utilities has been proposed and resulted in the ranking of all projects. Practical Implications: Solution's application showed the ability to analyze the impact of transportation projects on basic traffic characteristics of the city, their influence on tactical aspects associated with the implementation of sustainable transportation policy in the city as well as their role in the fulfillment of the city strategy. The proposed method can be applied in any urban transportation system and after slight modifications in other transportation and logistics systems. Originality/Value: The paper presents an original and universal approach to assessing and ranking transportation projects -TP-s featured by the extension and improvement of an urban transportation system.

This study describes the evaluation criteria involving three aspects of sustainability and finding their importance for ranking rural road projects. The evaluation criteria were derived from a thorough literature review and individual importance was determined via a Google survey among different experts, who have worked on rural roads in Nepal and other 22countries. This survey used Analytic Hierarchy Process.Thirteen sub criteria and three criteria were considered in the question on the survey and almost all of the respondents responded that these criteria and sub criteria were necessary in the criteria for the ranking of rural road projects fromthe point of sustainability. The result of the case study in Dang District of Nepal is also presented in thisarticle.

Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2019

Based on surveys of bicyclists and the study of foreign practice with regard to monitoring the development of bicycle transport infrastructure, scientists from Plekhanov Russian University of Economics have offered a flexible system of indicators to assess and plan the development of the bicycle transport infrastructure for the city of Moscow.

2019

The adoption of faster modes of transportation (mainly the private car) has changed profoundly the spatial organisation of cities. The increase in distance covered due to increased speed of travel and to urban sprawl leads to an increase in energy consumption, being the transportation sector a huge consumer responsible for 61.5% of total world oil consumption and a global final energy consumption of 31.6% in EU-27 (2007). Due to unsustainable transportation conditions, many cities suffer from congestion and various other traffic problems. Such situations get worse with solutions mostly seen in the development of new infrastructure for motorized modes of transportation, and construction of car parking structures. The bicycle, considered the most efficient among all modes of transportation including walking, is a travel mode that can be adopted in most cities contributing for urban sustainability given the associated environmental, economic and social advantages. In many nations a lar...

Transportation is one of a major contributor in emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2) gases. Citizens in Malaysia mostly prefer to drive their own private vehicle as Malaysia has gained an advance urbanization since 1990s. Providing bicycle facilities is crucial in order to encourage people to use bicycle as their mode of transportation. Even though some universities have already implemented the bicycle initiatives and provided the facilities to their students, there is no wellestablished guideline in Malaysia for bicycle facilities. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to assess the existing bicycle facilities based on established guidelines from developed countries and standards used in designing the existing facilities. Two universities from public and private university were selected for the physical assessment. A physical assessment was done by using developed scoring system which based on requirements stated in the guidelines. The finding shows that University A get good in overall score which is 74.71% while University B acquired moderate in overall score which is 50.08%.

2014

There is currently a great deal of interest in and discussion of the concept of sustainable transportation. A large number of factors, such as global warming, the Kyoto agreement, increased frequency and severity of poor air quality, that have provided the impetus for this increased interest. The scope of both discussions and research have, up to the present, focussed primarily on developing macroscopic measures of performance (or indicators) that are useful for application to regional areas. While these indicators are helpful for broad policy level evaluations, they are not always suitable for network and project level application. Consequently, transportation professionals and politicians at the municipal level have few, if any, tools available that enable them to quantitatively and objectively include sustainability when prioritising potential transportation projects. This paper addresses this issue. Specifically, this paper presents several sustainability measures of performance...

2021

Promoting cycle tourism along the Danube Route requires minimum standards in sections with emerging tourism on the one hand, and the upgrading of proven standards in established areas on the other hand. We therefore structured our guidelines in "must haves" and "nice to haves". This distinction also helps to address the heterogeneity of the project countries. "Must haves" are parameters or services that are necessary for high-quality infrastructure, while "nice to have" are optional to improve further. If you guarantee your guests all the "must have", they are able to experience high quality infrastructure and services in a more sustainable way than in conventional tourism. You will find in the following chapters of these guidelines the tools and recommendations to design and improve facilities and services for bicycle tourism. At the end of each chapter, a checklist will help you not to forget relevant elements. To keep the guidelines concise, it is not possible to discuss all planning and design principles related with all modes of transport in all details. The guidelines cannot substitute profound knowledge of transport planning and tourism. As local situations may also be quite complex, we recommend seeking the help of experienced transport planners and bicycle tourism experts for the detailed planning of a high-level touristic bicycle route and the touristic offers. You can also find further technical and detailed information in the compiled international standards and the literature quoted in these guidelines. The main target groups of these guidelines are tourism coordinators and boards, development agencies, public authorities on different administrative levels, business associations and local economic entities and EuroVelo coordinating entities in the Danube region. Existing standards in the countries along the EuroVelo network Unifying national standards and regulations throughout the European Union is one of the fundamental ideas of the EU. These guidelines provide technical recommendations for bicycle infrastructure elements that fulfil the cyclists ' demand for high quality infrastructure. By applying these guidelines, transnational routes will show a comparable technical standard throughout. This guarantees easy recognition and use for cyclists, independent of the country of origin and destination. These are not guidelines to overrule national standards; they merely aim to improve and harmonise them, if they are not specific enough. Should your country have stricter values and standards than formulated in these guidelines, your national standards should be applied. Some elements cannot be covered in full detail; for more detailed information, we refer to additional literature. Keep i n mind that these guidelines are designed to provide you with standards for a high-quality bicycle infrastructure. The detailed route design, planning and implementation must be done in consultation with local experts and stakeholders (e.g. traffic planners or civil engineers), preferably also including community-based planning (CBP).