Bicycle infrastructure and the incidence rate of crashes with cars: A case-control study with Strava data in Atlanta.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Bicycling has individual and collective health benefits. Safety concerns are a deterrent to bicycling. Incomplete data on bicycling volumes has limited epidemiologic research investigating safety impacts of bicycle infrastructure, such as protected bike lanes.

Methods

In this case-control study, set in Atlanta, Georgia, USA between 2016-10-01 and 2018-08-31, we estimated the incidence rate of police-reported crashes between bicyclists and motor vehicles (n = 124) on several types of infrastructure (off-street paved trails, protected bike lanes, buffered bike lanes, conventional bike lanes, and sharrows) per distance ridden and per intersection entered. To estimate underlying bicycling (the control series), we used a sample of high-resolution bicycling data from

SUBMITTER: Garber MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10773466 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature