Date
12-6-2016
Description
The recent City Club report on bicycling provided an opportunity to collect and analyze a number of data sets including the new Hawthorne Bridge data. One question is where Portland bicycling on the logistic curve -- a common tool for judging the maturity of a developing product or activity. Logistic curves are used for marketing, for epidemiology, and even for visits to Indian owned casinos. The preliminary evidence is that we are reaching the horizontal area of the curve. Additional evidence Our further research into future policies indicates a shift to bicycle boulevards in order to attract more risk averse riders.
Biographical Information
Robert McCullough is an energy economist (and an adjunct at PSU) who has written, talked, and testified on energy issues across the U.S. and Canada. He was instrumental in the identification and prosecution of Enron's energy traders. He also works with aboriginal groups in Quebec and Oregon, activists in California and Ohio, as well as many others. His most recent project is the economic review of the WNP-2 nuclear station for Physicians for Social Responsibility. The web site is www.mresearch.com.
Subjects
Cycling -- Oregon -- Portland -- Forecasting, Cyclists -- Safety measures, Urban transportation, Transportation -- Oregon -- Planning
Disciplines
Transportation | Urban Studies and Planning
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/18317
Recommended Citation
McCullough, Robert, "Peak Pedaling: Has Portland Bicycling reached the Top of the Logistic Curve?" (2016). PSU Transportation Seminars. 50.
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/18317