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Impact of Cyclist Facility Availability at Work on the Number of Bike Commuters

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Integration as Solution for Advanced Smart Urban Transport Systems (TSTP 2018)

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The article describes the results of research designed to establish whether cycle provision can influence the number of employees commuting by bike. To that end, employee surveys were conducted in three IT companies in 2012 and 2016. The questionnaire asked about travel behaviour and what the staff thought about their company’s provision of cyclist facilities. Since 2012 each of the companies has moved its head office and the facilities for cyclists have improved. The studies from 2012 indicated a greater impact of an unseen level of organizational culture than that of artifacts such as facilities for cyclists at the company or its location relative to the system of city cycle paths. Results from 2016 indicate that when significant changes are made on the artifacts level the influence on the number of cyclists can be noticeable.

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  1. Department of Highway and Transportation Engineering, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland

    Romanika Okraszewska

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  1. Faculty of Transport, Silesian University of Technology, Katowice, Poland

    Grzegorz Sierpiński

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Okraszewska, R. (2019). Impact of Cyclist Facility Availability at Work on the Number of Bike Commuters. In: Sierpiński, G. (eds) Integration as Solution for Advanced Smart Urban Transport Systems. TSTP 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 844. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99477-2_9

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