Cycling characteristics in cities with cold weather

Amiri, M.; Sadeghpour, Farnaz

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2013.11.009

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“…It is only under the combination of political support, proper bicycle plan, and internal management of the project that activities promoting cycling levels will be sustainable. Pucher, Dill, and Handy (2010) found that most of the evidences suggested that public policy plays a crucial role in encouraging cycling, such as overall measures of "bikeability" (Amiri & Sadeghpour, 2013;Sener, Eluru, & Bhat, 2009a;Titze, Stronegger, Janschitz, & Oja, 2008), on-road bicycle lanes (Dill, 2009;Parkin, Wardman, & Page, 2008;Sener, Eluru, & Bhat, 2009b), two-way bicycle travel on one-way streets (Transport for London, 2005) and shared bus/bike lanes (Nabti & Ridgway, 2002;Reid & Guthrie, 2004). Jäppinen, Toivonen, and Salonen (2013) studied the impacts of bicycle sharing system on public transport travel time; they showed that open transport information interfaces can provide new effective means to evaluate multimodal accessibility patterns in urban areas and reduce the public transport travel times.…”

Section: Transport Policiesmentioning

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Influences of urban characteristics on cycling: Experiences of four cities

Meng

Koh

Wong

et al. 2014

Sustainable Cities and Society

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Section: Transport Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Influences of urban characteristics on cycling: Experiences of four cities

Meng

Koh

Wong

et al. 2014

Sustainable Cities and Society

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“…Among weather variables, research has identified temperature as the primary influencer of cycling rates (see Brandenburg, Matzarakis, and Arnberger 2007;Amiri and Sadeghpour 2015;Heinen, van Wee, and Maat 2010;Nankervis 1999). Precipitation, or even the chance of it, has also been found to be highly detrimental to cycling rates (Meng et al 2016;B€ ocker, Dijst, and Prillwitz 2013;Flynn et al 2012;Mateo-Babiano et al 2016;Wadud 2014;An et al 2019).…”

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Making cycling irresistible in tropical climates? Views from Singapore

Lee

Pojani

2019

Policy Design and Practice

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In Singapore, cycling serves only two percent of daily commuter trips. Whenever cycling is discussed in relation to tropical settings, weather and climate are cited as major barriers to success. Commentators based in temperate climate zones assume that stifling heat, humidity, monsoon rains, and severe thunderstorms preclude the adoption of cycling in the tropics. Drawing on indepth interviews with transport policy experts based in Singapore, we demonstrate that weather and climate are less important here than previously assumed. To people acclimatized to the tropics, the local climate and the weather variations therein pose less of a barrier than factors such as safety and convenience, which are nearly universal. It appears that, to make cycling irresistible in tropical climates, similar setups and approaches proposed or implemented in temperate climates are needed.

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“…As local meteorological conditions have been shown to be a major determinant of people's decision-making about softmobility (Amiri and Sadeghpour 2015;Chapman et al 2017;Ebrahimabadi et al 2015;Eliasson et al 2007), a key premise of this work is that interactions between the built environment and meteorological conditions play central roles in determining how people perceive and decide to visit public spaces. A variety of social and physical factors also influence people's perceptions and use of urban space (Chen and Ng 2012;Knez et al 2009;Leng et al 2019;Lenzholzer 2010).…”

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Perceived impact of meteorological conditions on the use of public space in winter settlements

Larsson

Chapman

2020

Int J Biometeorol

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This study aimed to assess the impact of meteorological conditions on the use of public space in Scandinavia and Canada. Between September 21 and December 18, 2017, a cross-sectional online survey 'EAMQ-Climate: space' was distributed via web-based platforms. Survey responses were received from 361 residents (258 people from Scandinavia and 103 from Canada). The relative impact of the meteorological determinants on the use of public space was calculated, and a factor analysis was performed. Disparities between Canada and Scandinavia as well as between the climate zones represented were analysed using ANOVA. Overall results showed that the most significant meteorological enablers for the use of outdoor public spaces in winter were solar gain, snowfall and snow-covered surfaces. The main barriers were slush-covered and icy surfaces, rainfall and darkness. Wind and cold were conditions with less influence. The impact of rain and ice, however, differed between climatic zones. It was also established that, when addressing the meteorological impact on avoiding the use of public spaces in winter, it is vital to discriminate between conditions related to a) the ground surface and b) ambient conditions, as well as the particular significance of c) snow and sun, and d) darkness. For the design of public space in winter cities, we conclude that designers need to focus on a wider range of weather conditions than sun, wind and cold, and include snow, rainfall, slushy and icy ground and poor visibility. The study suggests that winter public space has a higher climatic design requirement to be successful than streets and pathways that are mainly used for soft mobility.

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Cycling characteristics in cities with cold weather

Cited by 54 publications

References 16 publications

Influences of urban characteristics on cycling: Experiences of four cities

Influences of urban characteristics on cycling: Experiences of four cities

Making cycling irresistible in tropical climates? Views from Singapore

Perceived impact of meteorological conditions on the use of public space in winter settlements

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