Modelling recreational cycling: an open source, reproducible and nationally scalable approach

Introduction

A typology of recreational cycling trips

• Domestic with cycle trips starting at a home or holiday accommodation location
• Park-and-cycle trips where the cycle trip start point is not at home
• Cycle tourism, where start and end trips are different
• Sport cycling

For each categories there are broadly four types of people who could be cycling:

• Locals who live in close proximity to the area
  • These people will tend to make domestic recreational trips
  • Park-and-cycle trips are also common for locals
• People from the county but not locals (e.g. within 10 km)
  • These people will tend to make park-and-cycle trips
• People within the county
  • These people will likely be on holiday and start from their accommodation
• People visiting from abroad
  • These people will likely be on holiday and start from their accommodation, for any of the four trip types