A GIS based bicycle level of service route model
Y. Zhang, M.J.G. Brussel, F.H.M. van den Bosch, Anna Grigolon, M.F.A.M. van Maarseveen · University of Twente Research Information · 2016
The Bicycle Level of Service (BLOS) concept, as first developed by Landis et al. in 1997 is intended to evaluate the quality of bicycle infrastructure and facilities. Although BLOS appraisal of infrastructure is a spatial problem by definition, GIS has found limited application as yet, mostly due to the complexities of developing an appropriate data model that is able to deal with varying attribute information along segments, at crossings and for entire routes. In this research a new GIS based approach to the modelling of BLOS is developed. Contrary to existing modelling applications, this approach does not address the level of individual segments and intersections only, but develops the BLOS concept at route level. A BLOS model was developed for and in cooperation with the city of Enschede, a city that has high ambitions to make cycling the preferred mode for urban trips and that is interested to find out which role infrastructure plays in the decision of people to choose a particular route. In analysing the model results, the factors shortest distance and shortest travel time dominate cyclists' routes choice in the morning peak.