creator Van Nortwick, Taylor Wade advisor Li, Zongzhi The United States is making big plans for improvements in bicycle infrastructure. To best understand if the improvements will be successful in creating a safe network, a study was done to determine contributing factors in bicycle crashes. Bicycle and motor vehicle crash data from around Chicago between 2005 and 2011 was analyzed for significant factors in infrastructure, cyclist and motorist attributes. Temperature was used as a predictor of bicycle traffic due to the seasonality of bicycling in Chicago. It was found that more bicycles and vehicles result in higher crash rates. It was also found that on -street parallel parking, signalized, skewed and multiple legged intersections lead to higher crash rates. Submitted by Liana Khananashvili (khananashvili@iit.edu) on 2013-11-21T21:07:35Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Taylor Van Nortwick Thesis Bike Crash Chicago 2013.pdf: 317591 bytes, checksum: 734775aaa5bbfe1672d97326ff15d5fb (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2013-11-21T21:07:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Taylor Van Nortwick Thesis Bike Crash Chicago 2013.pdf: 317591 bytes, checksum: 734775aaa5bbfe1672d97326ff15d5fb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-07 M.S. in Civil Engineering, July 2013 2013 2013-07 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/3160 en Thesis born digital application/pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Restricted Access CAEE / Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering Illinois Institute of Technology Affiliated department