Bicycle Transportation Planning For Gumushane Province

The aim of this study is to design a 10.500 meter bicycle path for the use of a bicycle as a means of transportation in Gümüşhane city center. A bicycle route has been identified considering the characteristics of the city and its current transportation network. The design of bicycle paths and the cost of application projects were prepared throughout the selected route. Also, a face-to-face survey was conducted covering the city center and the university campus. It has been tried to learn the opinion about the cycling habit of public, benefits of cycling and the obstacles to cycling in the city within the scope of the survey. According to Chi-square and Phi-Cramer's V tests the results of the survey, significant relationships were found between the gender of participants and cycling, the education level of participants and cycling, and the definition of cycling. The cost of designed bicycle path construction is 2.740.900 Turkish Liras (TL) and was found about three times less than the cost of a single lane highway. As a result, it was found that cycling is healthy, safe, economical, environmentally friendly and easily reachable. These characteristics of cycling show that cycling for sustainable transport is one of the most important solutions to urban transportation problems.