Cycling in a Crisis: Employing Quasi-Experimental Designs to Estimate the Effects of Provisional Bicycle Infrastructure
Abstract
During the Covid-19 pandemic, provisional infrastructure was implemented to support active transportation. However, the planning community still requires deeper understandings of the relationships between provisional infrastructure and mobility. We use the example of a roadway closure in Philadelphia to investigate how one active mode-bikeshare use-changed in response to provisional infrastructure. We employ differences-in-differences models that measure the semi-causal effect of provisional infrastructure on bikeshare trip durations and find that even during the pandemic, when trip durations increased across the bikeshare system, provisional infrastructure had an additive and statistically discernible impact above and beyond the pandemic effect.
Repository Citation
Davidson, Joshua H., Stephanie J. Nam, Shriya Karam, and Megan S. Ryerson. 2026. "Cycling in a Crisis: Employing Quasi-Experimental Designs to Estimate the Effects of Provisional Bicycle Infrastructure." Journal of Planning Education and Research 46(1): 53-71.
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Publication Date
3-2026
Publication Title
Journal of Planning Education and Research
Department
Computer Science
Document Type
Article
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X251330590
Notes
Special Series: Natural Experiments in Planning Research: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions
Keywords
Bikeshare, Covid-19, Differences-in-differences Quasi-experiment
Language
English
Format
text
