Network Development with Bicycle Lanes

dc.contributor.advisorSchonfeld, Paul Men_US
dc.contributor.authorZhao, Kaien_US
dc.contributor.departmentCivil Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-08T05:39:02Z
dc.date.available2016-09-08T05:39:02Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractBicycling as an active mode of transport can offer great individual and societal benefits. Allocating space for bicycle facilities is the key to promoting cycling as bicyclists perceive better safety and convenience in separate bikeways. In this thesis, a method is proposed for optimizing the selection and scheduling of capacity enhancements in road networks while also optimizing the allocation of road space to bicycle lanes. The goal is to determine what fraction of the available space should be allocated to bicycles, as the network evolves, in order to minimize the present value of the total cost of the system cost. The allocation method is combined with a genetic algorithm to select and schedule road expansion projects under certain budget constraints.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M22J7F
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/18750
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledTransportationen_US
dc.titleNetwork Development with Bicycle Lanesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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