Impacts of bicycle infrastructure: a case study in Singapore

Singapore is moving towards sustainable transport management with a focus on efficient infrastructure planning to optimise the land use and alleviate the traffic congestion, and to protect the environment. Through various infrastructure upgrading schemes, the government is encouraging residents to use non-motorised transport such as walking and cycling. One of those schemes is improvement of the cycling network in Tampines, the first cycling-friendly town in the island nation. This paper presents a before-and-after study to consider the efficiency of that scheme by finding the impacts of bicycle infrastructure development on cycling activities. The study also aims to understand the perceptions and attitudes of residents towards the well-developed cycling infrastructure network through perception surveys and field observations. The results show that the improvement of cycling infrastructure has positive effects on cycling activities in Tampines (i.e. significant increase of cyclist volume on some links) an...