Abstract. Active travel provides significant public health
benefits including improving physical and mental health and air quality.
Given the geography of congested roads, availability of required
infrastructure and cost of transportation in cities, promoting active
travel, including cycling, can be a good solution for commuting within
built environments. Having a better understanding of the key drivers
that may influence bike ridership can help with designing cities that
accommodate cyclists’ needs for healthier citizens. This paper examines
the built environment features that may affect commuting cyclists. We
respectively employ Ordinary Linear Square (OLS) regression and
Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) for 136 Intermediate Zones of
the city of Glasgow, UK. The results of GWR show that the significant
local variation in green areas suggests that even though the global
regression showed a negative association between the greenness and
commute cycling, over half of the IZ areas had a strong positive
association with the green areas. Building height and Public Transport
Availability Index show geographic patterns where the residuals are
fairly stationary across the study area with some clusters of high
residuals. Performance wise, the results from GWR provided an R2 of 0.73
which was higher than OLS at 0.3. Our results can provide insights into
how to use crowdsourced cycling data when there are spatially and
temporally limited resources available.