Table 5.

Characteristics of shortest cycling routes compared to characteristics of actual cycling routes

	Mean and ± SD or Median and interquartile range (25–75)					95 % confidence interval
	Shortest GIS-route		Actual GPS-route		OR	Lower	Upper
Length of route (meter)	675.6	(498.8–965.3)	673.9	(459.4–1008.3)	1.00	1.00	1.00
Land-use
Entropy	0.49	(0.33–0.69)	0.51	(0.35–0.67)	3.82	0.43	33.67
Commercial area (%)	0.00	(0.0–0.0)	0.00	(0.0–0.1)	0.88	0.71	1.09
Residential area (%)	86.5	(73.3–91.9)	84.0	(75.5–91.4)	0.98	0.94	1.02
Recreational area (%)	9.8	(2.0–20.2)	11.9	(5.5–19.2)	1.06	1.01	1.11
Traffic area (%)	2.0	(0.0–8.7)	1.4	(0.0–6.9)	0.90	0.82	1.00
Residents (n per km)	65.4	(45.0–84.8)	63.1	(46.5–80.7	1.00	0.98	1.01
Aesthetics
% Green along route	49.9	(34.0–71.5)	55.7	(32.5–72.4)	1.00	0.99	1.02
% Water along route	37.7	(10.2–61.3)	44.6	(15.4–68.5)	1.03	1.01	1.05
Trees (n per km)	145.6	(102.9–174.2)	140.7	(103.5–167.8)	0.99	0.97	1.00
Traffic
Traffic lights (n per km)	0.00	(0.0–0.0)	0.00	(0.0–0.0)	1.29	1.04	1.58
Street lights (n per km)	67.7	±21.6	62.3	±21.0	0.95	0.93	0.98
Street bumps (n per km)	3.7	(1.5–9.8)	3.4	(0.8–8.3)	0.96	0.89	1.05
Accidents (n per km)	1.8	(0.0–3.6)	1.1	(0.0–2.9)	0.57	0.43	0.76
Zebra crossings (n per km)	1.6	(0.0–2.3)	0.8	(0.0–2.3)	0.56	0.39	0.81
Junctions (n per km)	33.2	±13.4	35.3	±12.8	1.03	1.01	1.06
% Sidewalk along route	98.7	(83.0–99.9)	93.2	(78.1–100.0)	0.96	0.93	0.99
Type of Street
Main Road (%)	3.4	(0.0–17.0)	7.9	(0.0–14.5)	0.99	0.95	1.02
Residential Street (%)	40.8	±16.5	43.9	±15.2	1.03	1.01	1.06
Cycling path (%)	22.3	(6.0–34.4)	24.1	(11.5–35.9)	1.01	0.98	1.04
Pedestrian path (%)	22.8	(14.7–35.1)	22.0	(15.7–28.8)	0.95	0.92	0.98

SD = standard deviation, OR = odds ratio, p-values below 0.05 are printed in bold type