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22April2025 Mother Earth Day "Our Power, Our Planet": Express your gratitude to Mother Nature and seek her blessings by riding a Solar Assist Bicycle!
*Google Maps offers a 'biking' layer that segregates bicycle routes into four different categories depending on the degree of 'bicycle friendliness'. Solid green lines for paved bicycle trails, solid black lines for dedicated bicycle lanes, dotted green lines for bicycle friendly roads, and dashed green lines for dirt or unpaved bicycle trails. Solid green and solid black line routes are the safest for bicycling. Environmental friendly cities and countries can be identified by visualizing the density of such lines. For comparison, we display below the biking layer (courtesy Google) for three different cities: Eindhoven in the Netherlands, Washington DC in the USA, and Gandhinagar in Gujarat, India.
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Has the maximum density of bicycle trails and dedicated bicycle lanes. Bicycling is part of the Netherlands' culture. Citizens pedal to work, school or for grocery shopping. One of the most environmentally friendly countries.
Washington DC / Alexandria, USA
Washington DC / Alexandria, USA
Washington DC has a reasonably good density of bicycle friendly lanes but fewer dedicated bicycle lanes. Alexandria has a few famous bicycle trails such as the Mt. Vernon trail. Citizens pedal for leisure and pleasure. It's not common to see them pedal to work, school or grocery mart. Less environmentally friendly.
Gandhinagar, India
Gandhinagar, India
Gandhinagar has just a couple of dedicated bicycle lanes. But absolutely no bicycle trails or bicycle friendly lanes or even unpaved/ dirt bicycle trails. Using the Google Map, 'bike' layer as a metric, India can be considered as the least environmentally friendly country and unlike other countries, has not begun, as yet, to explore ways in which the cities can be made liveable or safe for citizens/ children.
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Multimodality in Transportation, the Green Hierarchy and their Impact
Multimodality in Transportation, the Green Hierarchy and their Impact
How To Understand The Impact Мultimodality In Transportation Has On Cities Of All Sizes, April 9, 2024, Modeshift.com
Planning Roadway Networks, Multimodal Transportation Planning uta.pressbooks.pub
Figure 5. 3. Rural-urban transect
Source: Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, Open Access
Designing safer urban streets has numerous benefits, Mead & Hunt, September 16, 2021
Figure 6. Example of roadway right-of-way with multimodal elements.
Adapted from Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, April 2019.
The Green Hierarchy is another modal priority concept advocated by groups working to reform the transportation system to make it more sustainable. It places the greatest overall priority on planning and designing the network for the pedestrian and cyclist, in light of the low cost, space efficiency and lack of adverse environmental impact of these “active” transportation modes. These active transportation modes are followed by transit, trucks, taxis and Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) like Uber, Ola and Lyft, with the lowest priority on the private automobile (Figure 5).
Figure 5. Green transportation hierarchy.
Source: Wikimedia Commons, n.d., CC0 1.0
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