The following is a guest post on Dr. Krizek's blog from Krista Nordback, PhD Candidate in Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado Denver and member of the Active Communities / Transportation (ACT) Research Group---
With the bicycle arms race underway (which is a good thing because peer pressure always helps communities do more), it’s really hard to know who is winning. If you read the blurbs, every city claims to be winning because every city is seeing gains in their bicycle counts. But how consistent are the counting approaches? How robust are the counting approaches? Even with consistent and robust approaches, how does one account for geographic or climate variations. Does a high bike count in Minneapolis during a sunny and 70 degree day ensure the same in mid January? Probably not. (more)
With the bicycle arms race underway (which is a good thing because peer pressure always helps communities do more), it’s really hard to know who is winning. If you read the blurbs, every city claims to be winning because every city is seeing gains in their bicycle counts. But how consistent are the counting approaches? How robust are the counting approaches? Even with consistent and robust approaches, how does one account for geographic or climate variations. Does a high bike count in Minneapolis during a sunny and 70 degree day ensure the same in mid January? Probably not. (more)
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