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EN_ WINTER BIKEABILITY
Erika Bullock; Master’s Candidate at University of Guelph Grant $1,500
EN_The proposed course of study will explore the concept of winter bikeability and how it can be increased in Toronto with improved streetscape design. Winter bikeability criteria will be synthesized and applied to comparable study sites in Toronto, Montreal, Minneapolis, Umea Sweden and Oulu Finland. Through evaluation of these criteria for each city a set of best practices will be developed and recommended for Toronto streetscape design. It is anticipated that the results will provide direction for future planning of streetscapes in cities with cold climates and snow accumulation.
It is proposed that a paper will be published in the Journal of Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, the Journal of Sustainable Cities and Society or the Journal of Landscape and Urban Planning, and presented at the 2017 IFLA/CSLA World Design Summit, if accepted.
Updates
Erica Bullock's thesis can be viewed on the University of Guelph website: https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/10349