COMMUTERS CHOICE FOR VALUING BICYCLE FACILITIES - AN ADAPTIVE COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY FOR THE CITY OF NOIDA

Several manuals, handbooks, and web resources provide different guidance on planning and designing bicycle facilities, though there are no specific indication which has to be treated as guide that may work well for the users. This paper examines necessity in bicycle route preferences across individuals with different levels of experience in bicycle commuting to work (Offices, Collages, Schools) individuals are categorized, like though commuters are experienced or inexperienced in bicycle commuting but are interested in trying it. Data has been gathered for this research paper from an original stated preference in the form of online survey administered by the authors, which is used to estimate the need of route of choice for each class of respondents. The need to examine bicyclist route preferences as a function of bicycling experience level is well recognized in the literature. As a means of transportation and as a form of physical activity, bicycling generates benefits to the bicyclist as well as to the community as a whole. Study of the Noida city was designed to test the importance of bicycle infrastructure and other physical environment factors relative to individual and social environment factors, using a data to examine ownership and decisions jointly. From this survey, results will be concluded based on two critical aspects of valuing benefits of bicycle trails and lanes and its role in the sustainable transportation network. First, an adaptive stated preference survey is used to measure how much travel time individuals are willing to spend to obtain particular features of on and off-street bicycle facilities. Second, to learn the effect of bicycle trail proximity on home value. The facilities considered in the paper are off-road facilities, in-traffic facilities with bike-lane and no on-street parking, and on-street parking and in-traffic facilities with no bike-lane but with parking on the side. The results show strong inclination of individual attitudes, physical and social environment factors towards bicycle ownership and their use.