Establishment of an Evaluation Model for Waterside Bikeways: A Case Study of the Tamsui Bikeway
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010
Author(s)
Lin, Chia-Wei
Abstract
Due to growing environmental protection sense and recreational demand in recent years, biking has become increasingly popular in Taiwan with the number of bikeways and biking population on the rise. Viewing that bikeway design and planning has become a concern and most of bikeways in the Taipei metropolitan area are along riversides, the study aims to build an evaluation model specifically for bikeway planning.
Through reviewing literature on environmental attributes and criteria for bikeway design and planning, the study listed a number of factors for evaluation and then selected the most relevant ones based on 13 local experts’ opinions, with the relevant factors including environmental resources, space of bikeways and service facilities. The study undertook a questionnaire survey of experts and used the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method to analyze the relative importance of each factor, and then evaluated weights of each factor’s indices to establish an “Evaluation Model for Waterside Bikeway Planning”. The demonstration of the model in a case----the popular Tamsui Golden Waterside Bikeway in the Taipei metropolitan area----proves its comprehensiveness and feasibility.
The results of the study show that the framework of the evaluation is of two levels: The first (target) level is “evaluation for waterside bikeway planning” consisting of the three evaluation factors “environmental resources (0.412)”, “space of bikeways (0.415)” and the “service facilities (0.173)”, while the second level consists of 18 evaluation factors. “Availability of scenic spots and resources along bikeways (0.195)” under “environmental resources” factor and “continuous routes (0.304)” under “space of bikeways" factor are two indices with higher weights. In order to maximize recreational functions of bikeways, therefore, it is important to consider whether there are scenic spots and resources adjacent to or near a bikeway as well as the bikeway should not be broken in its entire route. The study also used the model to analyze various problems common to waterside bikeways and thereby proposed recommendations concerning bikeway design and planning for reference.
Subjects
Bikeway Evaluation
Golden Waterfront
Tamsui
Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
Type
thesis
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