Re:“Does induced demand apply to bike lanes?” and other ques...
by sandworm101 on Friday August 27, 2021 @11:48AM
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You assume single passenger vehicles. Do the math again for a 50-person busses. Compared to that, bikes and cars are relatively similar. Even four-person cars, with say 4 seconds between them (one person per second) better single-passenger bikes traveling in pairs. Bikes rarely ever maintian such separations, genrally leaving 7+ seconds between pairs when at speed due to bikes having reduced stopping times from top spèed.
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Re:“Does induced demand apply to bike lanes?” and other ques...
by jka on Friday August 27, 2021 @01:30PM
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It may be a reasonable assumption; what are typical vehicle occupancy rates?
Also, a bicycle-majority traffic mix wouldn't have to conflict with the presence of high-passenger-capacity buses.
That may be true that cars can have shorter time-distance separation, but I think there's a gap in the modeling there with regard to group travel:
If you have a four-passenger car and compare that to the same group of people traveling together by bicycle, the time-distance separation factor disappears.