Citation

Yeh CC, Lin CJ, Hsiao JP, Huang CH. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019; 16(18): e16183460.

Affiliation

Department of Sport Management, National Taiwan University of Sport, Taichung, 404, Taiwan. hch55@ntupes.edu.tw.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, MDPI: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)

DOI

10.3390/ijerph16183460

PMID

31533371

Abstract

Bicycle tourism is one of the popular physical activities for sport tourists. Since the physical environment may affect bicycling behavior, it becomes an important determinant for cyclists to choose a cycleway. Exploratory factor analysis is performed to extract the perception of environmental quality of cyclists into five main factors, including safety, light facilities, lane design, landscape, and environment cleanliness. The contingent behavior method (CBM) is adopted to measure the quality improvement projects in different scenarios of light facility and landscape improvement. The results showed that the improvement projects increased the intended number of trips and the recreational benefits of cyclists.

Language: en

Keywords

bicycle tourism; contingent behavior method; environment quality; recreational benefits