جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "cycling" در نشریات گروه "عمران"

Various factors are effective in choosing the way of doing daily trips, which can be changed gradually by applying different measures and policies. In recent years, urban planning has gone towards creating incentive policies to increase citizens' use of bicycles instead of motor vehicles, which requires understanding the behavior of citizens when faced with bicycles. In this study, the research-oriented questionnaire among 1707 citizens of Qom city was completed both in person and online by the citizens, and the validation of the Likert scale questions with Cronbach's alpha coefficient equal to 0.793 has an acceptable consistency. The results showed that only 20.5% of the citizens were confident and comfortable about the safety of the road while cycling. In this way, 43% of parents are worried about their children using bicycles and 23% of parents allow their children to use bicycles due to the low safety of bicycles. As a result, this research, by providing solutions in four general sections, including increasing the safety of cyclists, changing The mentality of citizens toward cyclists, the per capita increase of bicycle ownership, and solving the problems of bicycle use have been to improve the attitude and increase the desire of citizens to ride bicycles in intra-city trips in Qom city.

The car-oriented approach of cities in Iran has caused to decrease in the share of active travel modes in recent years. In contrast, cycling as an active travel mode can play a crucial role in intra-city movements and reduce motorized travel modes' disadvantages. On the other hand, active modes are more practical for short distances and are less desirable in long distances. In this regard, this study intends to investigate the factors affecting the choice of cycling in home-based trips shorter than three kilometers in Qom. For this study, a sample of 887 residents of Qom city was used. Results showed that four categories of variables, including socio-economic characteristics, travel characteristics, environmental and theoretical factors at the significance level of 10%, affect the choice of cycling on trips shorter than three kilometers. The marginal effect values indicated that having access to a suitable bicycle could increase the probability of choosing cycling by 23.4%. Also, trips for leisure, sports, and meeting acquaintances have tremendous potential for cycling. Results also showed that people living outside the city center were more likely to ride bicycles in trips with a distance of less than three kilometers. Also, higher densities of residents and parks within a radius of 800 meters around the residence and having a bicycle accident experience with positive and negative marks, respectively, affect the likelihood of choosing a bicycle.

The development of cycling in metropolises requires the management of cycling facilities and the provision of suitable conditions for cyclists. One of the most important cycling facilities is bike sharing stations. These stations in Tehran are called "Bike Houses". Evaluating the performance of these houses can help cities' non-motorized transport authorities make planning easier for sensitive users of these facilities in urban passages. Using datas for the transaction of bicycle houses, appropriate indicators can be defined to evaluate the performance of bicycle houses. Examination of the indices showed that the reduction of service hours had a significant effect on transaction rates. Also the average transaction of bike houses in gardens and parks are much higher than other bike houses in hot seasons. Finally, the performance index of bicycle houses in different regions of Tehran was presented, with regions 12 and 4 in Tehran having the highest performance index and regions 22 and 2 having the lowest.