http://project.stevevance.net/ 2012-05-17T07:39:13-07:00 http://project.stevevance.net/ http://project.stevevance.net/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-03-28T21:54:01-07:00 http://project.stevevance.net/appendices/acknowledgements?rev=1269838441&do=diff I would like to thank the following individuals for their support in this project. * Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah - My advisor at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs. Vonu suggested I create a model or framework that could predict demand for bike parking. I developed the Bike Parking Demand Model based on our discussions about that. * Nina Savar and Diego Silva - Professors in GIS at UIC, I credit them for helping to design the GIS proj… text/html 2010-03-28T21:53:44-07:00 http://project.stevevance.net/appendices/author?rev=1269838424&do=diff Steven Vance is a big nerd who's been going to school at University of Illinois at Chicago for over four years. Using a hand-me-down mountain bike from 1993 as his preferred way to navigate the big bad city, Steven became supremely interested in bicycling as a near-perfect mode of transportation. But it wasn't bicycling nor transportation that persuaded Steven to join the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs; he wanted to design cities. Eventually realizing that such a job doesn't exist … text/html 2010-05-06T14:08:42-07:00 http://project.stevevance.net/appendices/bikeparkingoddities?rev=1273180122&do=diff Things people lock to * Sign pole * Tree Ways people say "lock" * Tied to a pole text/html 2010-03-28T20:46:49-07:00 http://project.stevevance.net/appendices/bikeway_network?rev=1269834409&do=diff The bikeway network is the arrangement of bike lanes, marked-shared lanes, recommended routes, signed bike routes, and multi-use trails. It is part of the transportation network, along with bike parking. Further reading * Level of service Selected research See main article, Bikeway network research. text/html 2010-06-24T15:32:44-07:00 http://project.stevevance.net/appendices/data?rev=1277418764&do=diff Reading this article on Planetizen prompted me to add this page to my project. Data I have * The location of thousands of installed bike racks in Chicago, with accompany geographic identifiers like ZIP code, Ward, and Community Area. * The location type (land use) of over 1,000 bike rack locations in Chicago text/html 2010-09-30T23:33:49-07:00 http://project.stevevance.net/appendices/fifty_foot_rule?rev=1285914829&do=diff Bike parking should never be placed further than 50 feet from the nearest probable destination. Anything more, and you'll find yourself with unused bike racks due to Bicycle Parking Phenomenon A. More resources * Bike parking rules debated in Tucson, Arizona text/html 2010-03-30T10:37:43-07:00 http://project.stevevance.net/appendices/gis?rev=1269970663&do=diff GIS, or geographic information systems, are computer applications (either desktop or online) that can view, manipulate, analyze, construct, among other functions, spatial data and imagery. The most common file format for storing and sharing the spatial data is ESRI's shapefile, although it must be packaged with a DBF table and SHX file. text/html 2010-03-27T13:38:53-07:00 http://project.stevevance.net/appendices/glossary?rev=1269722333&do=diff * Bike parking - A place, object, or structure to or under which people can park, and lock, their bicycles. Can have one or more bicycle racks. * Bike parking facility (BPF) - A location with any quantity of bike racks and any quantity of bike parking spaces. In the CDOT Bicycle Parking Program database, this is recorded as a RackID that additionally includes an attribute for the installation date. A bike parking facility may have more than RackID associated with it, with each RackID represen… text/html 2011-03-14T13:06:25-07:00 http://project.stevevance.net/appendices/good_data_management?rev=1300133185&do=diff Because of my experience dealing with and upgrading the database used by the CDOT Bicycle Parking Program, I wrote a white paper to educate other agencies and to help them avoid the same data management issues. The white paper will also better prepare agencies for future expansions of their programs, and therefore their data. The paper was not part of this project's proposal. I started writing it in 2008, before I started this project. text/html 2010-03-28T21:05:50-07:00 http://project.stevevance.net/appendices/homepage?rev=1269835550&do=diff text/html 2010-07-10T14:44:12-07:00 http://project.stevevance.net/appendices/level_of_service?rev=1278798252&do=diff This section is a “work in progress” and was not part of the original project proposal. There's a bicycle level of service (as it pertains to the bikeway network). What if there was a bike parking level of service? What is level of service Traditionally, level of service (LOS) is a letter grade assigned to a road segment that describes the experience of motorists driving on that roadThe Level of service article on Wikipedia has a good introduction to the topic.. It is defined in the Highway C… text/html 2010-04-22T06:46:38-07:00 http://project.stevevance.net/appendices/media?rev=1271943998&do=diff A list of all media files used in the project. [Final project as submitted to UIC on April 9, 2010]. By content Maps Photos Screenshots These files may be included in photos. Infographics This list also includes files listed in Maps above. text/html 2010-09-01T13:19:18-07:00 http://project.stevevance.net/appendices/on_street_bikeparking?rev=1283372358&do=diff List of cities with City State/Province Country Since Number of locations Photo Links Portland Oregon United States 50+ Toronto Ontario Canada July 13, 2010 News New York City New York United States 2009 text/html 2010-05-27T20:21:38-07:00 http://project.stevevance.net/appendices/presentation?rev=1275016898&do=diff I gave a presentation in May 2010 to staff members at the Active Transportation Alliance to 1) fill them on my project 2) summarize for them my project's purpose and findings and how it can affect bike infrastructure in the City of Chicago, something about which they have a concern (like many people here). text/html 2010-03-30T09:09:26-07:00 http://project.stevevance.net/appendices/removed?rev=1269965366&do=diff These sections were removed from the project and should be ignored. However, since this is a live document, they are kept in case I ever choose to resurrect them. Heading format is “Page:Section.” Equity: Equity and the United States From Equity. text/html 2011-05-08T22:22:42-07:00 http://project.stevevance.net/appendices/research?rev=1304918562&do=diff Not all listed research was cited in this project. This page serves as a sort of curated index for further reading on related topics. All referenced works are cited inline on their respective pages. Recommended works Authors * Dr. Jennifer Dill at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. * Dr. John Pucher at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. text/html 2010-03-28T21:06:15-07:00 http://project.stevevance.net/appendices/shortcomings?rev=1269835575&do=diff I made every attempt to know and do everything to make this project as encompassing, interesting, and flawless as possible. But that's not possible. This page indexes the other pages which discuss one of the project's shortcomings: text/html 2010-04-08T19:09:00-07:00 http://project.stevevance.net/appendices/transportation?rev=1270778940&do=diff “Transportation investments are generally declared to be projects meant to solve or ameliorate transportation problems such as traffic congestion, or to make alternative modes of travel available... Frequently left unstated, however, are the political considerations, including funding availability, job creation and equity effects, which are oftentimes the main forces stimulating the investment”Berechman, Joseph. The Evaluation of Transportation Investment Projects. New York City: Routledge, 2009… text/html 2010-03-28T21:32:31-07:00 http://project.stevevance.net/appendices/why_bicycling?rev=1269837151&do=diff The bicycle is an efficient and non-polluting mode of transportation. The bicycle gives the operator a greater ability to carry cargo, and increases by several factors the distance and speed at which the operator can travel (that is, the bicycle's work output is great than the operator's work input). In many cities, and for many purposes, the bicycle is the ideal mode of transportation. Hundreds of millions of people around the world ride bicycles to work, school, and shopping every day. text/html 2010-03-28T20:18:05-07:00 http://project.stevevance.net/appendices/why_bike_parking?rev=1269832685&do=diff Bike parking is part of the transportation network. “Providing convenient, secure places to park is an inexpensive and effective way to encourage bicycling”Chapter 3 of the Chicago Bike 2015 Plan. Bike parking is needed at all destinations to which people currently ride their bicycles and to which people may potentially ride their bicycles (this essentially means everywhere). Bike parking provides a place to store one's bicycle - without it a trip may not be taken. text/html 2010-03-30T10:13:50-07:00 http://project.stevevance.net/appendices/why_online?rev=1269969230&do=diff I chose to present my project as a website instead of on other media because I was having difficulty organizing my project into a linear paper and I am very familiar with website development so I could make my project exist as a non-linear tree with as many branches (tangents) as I felt necessary. I believe the website will make my project more interesting and more likely to be read, understood, and its information and findings utilized by readers. The website is the best way to publish the incl…