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Urban cycling and land-use integration in Pune, India: Examining the use of a spatially-constrained accessibility measure
Alando, Walter (2011) Urban cycling and land-use integration in Pune, India: Examining the use of a spatially-constrained accessibility measure.
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| Abstract: | Urban cycling can contribute to ameliorating the current urban transport challenges facing developing cities if it is well integrated into urban transport and land-use system. Unfortunately, it is scarcely ever taken into account in most developing cities in general and Pune in particular. No previous study seems to have explicitly investigated the effects of physical barriers caused by land-use and transport planning on urban cycling in developing cities in order to inform its integration into the urban system. The current study examines the use of a spatially-constrained accessibility measure in integrating urban cycling and land-use in the context of Pune city, India. This is important in order to find out its usefulness in supporting decisions on urban cycling and land-use integration. The main objective of the study is to develop and test a spatially constrained accessibility measure for integrating urban cycling and land-use. Four specific objectives are addressed: i) To analyse the existing urban transport and land-use situation in Indian cities in general and Pune in particular; ii) To analyse the cycling patterns and behaviours in Pune; iii) To analyse the spatial configuration of Pune; and iv) To develop and implement a spatially-constrained accessibility measure for urban cycling-land-use integration in Pune. The findings of the study are relevant to urban planning practitioners, scholars and all persons interested in urban cycling-land-use integration. Socio-economic, road network and land-use data from secondary sources are analysed to address the study objectives. To this end, a three-stage approach is followed to analyse the data and to interpret their meaning in the context of the current study i) literature is reviewed to get the current state of knowledge with regard to urban cycling and land-use; ii) statistical analysis is carried out on socio-economic data to understand the cycling behaviours and patterns in Pune. Parallel to this is a spatial analysis that aims to find out the possible implications that land-use patterns have on the revealed cycling behaviours and patterns; and iv) accessibility modelling whose aim is to understand how the land-use patterns and cycling infrastructure provision has impacted on urban cycling in Pune. The key findings of the study are that i) urban cycling is influenced by both land-use patterns on the one hand and the provision for cycling on the roads on the other hand. The latter influences distances between trip origins and opportunities while the former influences the perception regarding safety among cyclists. These determine whether or not people will cycle; ii) current theories of urban transport and land-use are inadequate in explaining cycling behaviour and patterns with respect to urban land-use in the developing cities; and iii) The use of a spatially-constrained accessibility measure can enable the levels of accessibility in different parts of a city to be studied under different scenarios and to further relate them to land-use patterns and the provision for cycling infrastructure. In view of the findings, the study concludes that the spatially-constrained accessibility measure offers a useful tool for urban cycling and land-use integration. The measure can enable an analysis of the impacts of land-use plans as well as transport plans on cycling and provoke urban planners to influence land-use patterns and infrastructure that are sensitive to cycling needs. These can make it a useful decision support tool for integrating urban cycling and land-use. The study recommends the development of theories to explain the relationship between cycling and land-use in the context of developing cities and data collection for validation of its findings. A more targeted investigation of the urban form factors that influence cycling in developing cities would also be useful in enabling a more succinct definition of the barriers to cycling. Key words: Accessibility, urban cycling, urban form, Pune, spatially-constrained accessibility measure |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | ITC: Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation |
| Programme: | Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation MSc (75014) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/93306 |
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