Cycling as transport

Fishman, Elliot K.

doi:10.1080/01441647.2015.1114271

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“…In a growing number of cities, cycling is increasingly seen as a promising answer to a variety of urban problems, including mobility-related issues such as traffic congestion, urban pollution and transport carbon emissions, but also wider issues of public health and urban vitality (Fishman, 2016;Pucher & Buehler, 2010). As emphasized by Darnton (2016), urban cycling offers the potential to not only improve the urban mobility system, but also to create more attractive places and cities to live in.…”

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The human infrastructure of a cycling city: Amsterdam through the eyes of international newcomers

Nello-Deakin

Николаева

2020

Urban Geography

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Although place-specific social norms play at least as important a role as physical factors in encouraging cycling in mature cycling cities, few studies have explored these factors in detail. In order to address this research gap, this paper offers a qualitative exploration of what makes Amsterdam a "cycling city". Through semi-structured interviews, the article explores the main factors which encourage cycling uptake among international newcomers to Amsterdam. Instead of relying on a division between "hard" and "soft" factors, we approach the city as a sociotechnical system, arguing that the material and social factors which encourage cycling in Amsterdam are co-constitutive. We identify seven main factors encouraging cycling, whichtend to be mutually reinforcing and highlight the critical role of the "human infrastructure" formed by cyclists themselves in encouraging cycling. Finally, our analysis uncovers a temporal dimension of cycling uptake, showing that many newcomers become increasingly reliant on cycling over time.

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The human infrastructure of a cycling city: Amsterdam through the eyes of international newcomers

Nello-Deakin

Николаева

2020

Urban Geography

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“…Cycling, especially in relation to urban mobility, has experienced a strong surge of academic interest in recent years (Fishman 2016). While most studies examine cycling environments in the North American context, increasingly academic and policy attention has turned to the Netherlands, which offers a context where cycling is a more mature, mainstream mode of transport (e.g.…”

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The bicycle-train travellers in the Netherlands: personal profiles and travel choices

Jonkeren¹,

Kager²,

Harms

et al. 2019

Transportation

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The Netherlands seems to exhibit the unique conditions that allow cycling on the country level instead of only the city level. Moreover, the national transit system seemingly provides one crucial condition: citizens use the train and cycling systems in an integrated manner, with combined bicycle-train transport recently demonstrating strong growth. Relatively little is known about bicycle-train users, i.e. the people who combine the bicycle and the train in a single trip. In this paper, we investigate their profiles and travel choices, in terms of the modes they choose for access and egress travel, their choice of stations, and their choice of type of bicycles. Studying this specific group can add to our understanding of the role of the train system in the success of cycling in the Netherlands, in turn helping improve policy transfer to metropolitan areas in other countries. In 2017, in cooperation with the Dutch National Railways, researchers surveyed a sample of train travellers, ultimately resulting in more than 3000 completed questionnaires. Descriptive analyses revealed that, compared to train travellers who do not or rarely cycle to/from train stations, bicycle-train users are on average more likely to be young people who are engaged in fulltime employment or entrepreneurs, commute to work and hold university degrees. As for their cycling behaviour, bicycle-train travellers use bicycles much more often on the homeend of train trips than on the activity-end. Furthermore, bicycle-train travellers infrequently use suburban stations on the home-end, preferring large stations in the centres of major cities instead. For those who use bicycles, shared bicycles claim a considerable share on the activity-end of a train trip.

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“…Given these findings, the best approach to encourage participation in urban cycling is to make it safe and convenient [36]. To this end, action must be taken at the structural level to improve objective safety in public spaces.…”

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Cycling as Transportation: Sociocultural Meanings from a Gender Perspective in Bogota, Colombia

Suárez¹,

González-Uribe

2019

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Physical inactivity is a risk factor for chronic diseases and ischemic cardiomyopathy, which is the leading cause of death in Bogota, Colombia. Cycling is a sustainable strategy to increase levels of physical activity, especially for college students; however, fewer women than men engage in this activity due to gender roles, creating an avoidable inequity. The aim of this study was to understand the socio-cultural significance perceived by a group of medical students in women’s use of bicycles as a mode of transportation in Bogotá. Qualitative research based on grounded theory was conducted. Sixteen students participated in three focus groups and four interviews from February to April 2018. We found that the meaning of the cycling experience resulted from identity construction. The cycling experience involved both sociodemographic conditions and a transitional gender model with competing notions from a traditional and a contemporary model. The traditional view on bicycling emphasised the insecurity of women based on underestimation of their capacities. This model generated perceived vulnerability and affected undermined women’s self-efficacy. In the contemporary model, bicycle use facilitated well-being and served as an efficient means to commute. To increase female students’ participation in urban cycling, it is essential to encourage the construction of self-efficacy. It is also necessary to improve safety in public spaces and facilitate bicycles’ convenience of use. This actions could support sustainable transportation, gender equity and reduction of health risks related to physical inactivity.

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Cycling as transport

Cited by 118 publications

References 27 publications

The human infrastructure of a cycling city: Amsterdam through the eyes of international newcomers

The human infrastructure of a cycling city: Amsterdam through the eyes of international newcomers

The bicycle-train travellers in the Netherlands: personal profiles and travel choices

Cycling as Transportation: Sociocultural Meanings from a Gender Perspective in Bogota, Colombia

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