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Behzadi G, Kiani M, Titidezh O. Assessing the Effects of Infrastructure, Land Use and Built-Environment on the Bicycle Mode Choice in Urban Trips Using A Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach. jor 2023; 20 (1) :13-31
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Department of Civil Engineering, Shomal University, Amol, Iran
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This study identified the most important variables affecting the choice of bicycles in urban travel in terms of infrastructure, land use, and environmental conditions and could be a roadmap for future studies with a special look at the variables related to land use. Cycling has long been a way of traveling, especially in urban settings. But choosing this mode of travel requires improvements to be able to compete with other different modes of transportation. This study aims to evaluate the effect of multiple variables in the three groups of bicycle infrastructure, built environment, and land use, on the choice of bicycle as a mode of transportation in urban trips. This study evaluates the effect of 18 variables in the three groups of the above variables by applying the fuzzy theory approach in the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) as one of the most valid multi-criteria decision-making methods. According to the research results, among the variables in the group of infrastructure variables, separated cycling routes, intersection density, and route topography had the most impact, respectively. In the group of built environmental, traffic signals and cycling facilities had higher priorities. In the group of land-use variables, variables of land use density and mixed land use had the most effect.
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Received: 2022/06/8 | Accepted: 2022/12/12

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