Print Email Facebook Twitter Development of cycling and influential demand factors in the Netherlands Title Development of cycling and influential demand factors in the Netherlands Author Van Goeverden, C.D. Godefrooij, T. Van Arem, B. Van Nes, R. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Transport and Planning Date 2013-05-30 Abstract In the Netherlands, the share of the bicycle as the main mode in all person trips has been highly constant in the past three decades (about 27%). A constant share is remarkable because developments in this period were mainly unfavourable for bicycle use, like ageing of the population, growing number of immigrants, increasing car ownership, and a tendency to travel larger distances. The analysis of the paper confirms that, if only the autonomous developments on the demand side of the modal choice market are considered, a large majority of these is adverse for bicycle use. Estimations with a model show that, indeed, a decreasing trend in the market share of the bicycle could be expected, while a stable trend is observed. Probably, supply-side developments, in particular the long-term bicycle-friendly policy of the Dutch national and local governments, had a significant positive influence on bicycle use. Subject bicyclethe Netherlandsmodal choicelong-term development To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ef8f6cca-66ff-4dbb-80a3-fec50766eb74 Publisher BIVEC-GIBET Source Proceedings of the BIVEC-GIBET Transport Research Days, Walferdange, Luxemburg, 30-31 May 2013 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2013 The Author(s) Files PDF 293249.pdf 184.67 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:ef8f6cca-66ff-4dbb-80a3-fec50766eb74/datastream/OBJ/view