Print Email Facebook Twitter How do people cycle in Amsterdam, Netherlands? Title How do people cycle in Amsterdam, Netherlands?: Estimating cyclists' route choice determinants with GPS data from an urban area Author Ton, D. (TU Delft Transport and Planning) Cats, O. (TU Delft Transport and Planning) Duives, D.C. (TU Delft Transport and Planning) Hoogendoorn, S.P. (TU Delft Transport and Planning) Department Transport and Planning Date 2017 Abstract Nowadays, the bicycle is seen as a sustainable and healthy substitute forthe car in urban environments. The Netherlands is the leading countryin bicycle use, especially in urban environments. Yet route choice modelsfeaturing inner-city travel that includes cyclists are lacking. This studyestimated a cyclists’ route choice model for the inner city of Amsterdam,Netherlands, on the basis of 3,045 trips collected with GPS data. The maincontribution of this study was the construction of the choice set with anempirical approach, which used only the observed trips in the data setto compose the choice alternatives. The findings suggested that cyclistswere insensitive to separate cycle paths in Amsterdam, a city characterizedby a dense cycle path network in which cycling was the most prominentmode of travel. In addition, cyclists were found to minimize traveldistance and the number of intersections per kilometer. The impact ofdistance on route choice increased during the morning peak when scheduleconstraints were more prevalent. Furthermore, overlapping routeswere more likely to be chosen by cyclists, everything else being the same. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9977775b-38fa-49bb-b686-00842daa061b DOI https://doi.org/10.3141/2662-09 ISSN 0361-1981 Source Transportation Research Record, 2662 (spec. issue: Bicycles), 75-82 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2017 D. Ton, O. Cats, D.C. Duives, S.P. Hoogendoorn Files PDF TRR_paper_17_01931_resubmitted.pdf 573.54 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:9977775b-38fa-49bb-b686-00842daa061b/datastream/OBJ/view