THE CHALLENGE OF A NEW URBAN MOBILITY A TRANS-NATIONAL COMPARISON BETWEEN THE ACTUAL AND THE POTENTIAL CYCLING DEMAND IN UTRECHT AND IN MILAN CITIES

Abstract

The research purpose is to analyse and compare the Utrecht and Milan's data of the urban bike's share, to finally rearch the number of both cities' actual cyclists. This goal will be reached by following a circular conceptual scheme which integrates the main variables taken into account. These variables are: 1)distances and itineraries, 2)modes of transports connected to each other (intermodality), 3)travel motivations and attitudes, 4)urban transports infrastructural strategies and statute bike's plans. These variables will be theoretically analysed, with the literature articles revision on travel behavior modal choices and with some exemplar empirical cases, but also analytically, by using quantitative statistical data. The literature scan and the conceptual model's indicators will be divided into the demand (bike users) and supply side (policy makers, transports managers, urban planners). The core concept of the research is to find the most determinant variables that affect the actual number of cyclists in the Italian city context which is expected to have a less share of: cyclists number, bike's infrastructural provisions, policies and strategies, than the Utrecht case study