Male cyclists greatly outnumber female cyclists in Australia. New research points to ways to close the gap.
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We want healthy, liveable cities and to cut emissions to net zero. Getting more people to use bicycles instead of cars will go a long way towards achieving these goals.
Early in the pandemic, when there was much less traffic on the roads, people took to their bikes. But since then, fewer people are cycling, with rates now lower than in 2011.
Ensure your helmet complies with the national or international bicycle helmet standards, which should be stated on the label inside the helmet.
Cars are getting bigger on US roads, and that’s increasing pedestrian and cyclist deaths. A transport scholar identifies community-level strategies for making streets safer.
Cycling in Canada has been experiencing a great boom in recent years. Yet, there was no consistent and complete way to measure cycling infrastructure, until now.
Bike riders wear helmets and high-vis vests to reduce their vulnerability on the road. Problem is a new study finds this dehumanises cyclists, putting them more at risk of aggression from drivers.
Lagos is famous for its congested traffic. Cycling could help change this image.
Men outnumber women by two-to-one on bikes in Australia. It’s time more women were involved in planning new bike paths and protected lanes to feel safer on the road.
Reliance on the support of others after an accident showed philosopher David Newheiser the power of solidarity. We need a similar sense of communal connection in our approach to COVID, he writes.
Fatal road injuries are among the top 10 causes of death in Ghana.
Traffic crashes kill and injure millions worldwide every year and are a major drain on economic development. Improving road safety would produce huge payoffs, especially in lower-income countries.
Changes to the Highway Code have created a hierarchy of road users, prioritising the most vulnerable.
For many years, concussion treatment followed a rest-is-best approach. But research now suggests that low-to-moderate intensity exercise is a safe and useful approach to managing concussion symptoms.
We surveyed over 4,000 Victorians and found more than three-quarters are interested in riding a bike, but only in infrastructure that separates people from cars – such as protected bike lanes.
Current methods of road carnage prevention in Ghana have proved unsuccessful .
Electric scooter rides soared from zero to 88 million a year between 2017 and 2019. But launching e-scooters in cities without safe infrastructure or clear rules of the road can be deadly.
Delivery riders are paying the ultimate price for the fact that our cities, their infrastructure and the rules governing them make cycling much more dangerous than it should be.
Bike shops have seen record sales during the pandemic as people try to avoid crowded transportation. But governments must do more to keep new cyclists in the saddle.
Drivers and cyclists develop distinct identities of themselves and others in ways that mirror the formation of ethnic identities. And on-road segregation runs the risk of reinforcing this process.
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Chris Rissel adalah Sahabat The Conversation.Senior Research Fellow, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University
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Associate Professor and Head of Sustainable Mobility and Safety Research, Monash University
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health, Victoria University
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Senior Researcher, Institute of Transport Studies, Monash University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Sustainable Urban Development, The Earth Institute, Columbia University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Monash University
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Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, Road Safety and Injury Prevention, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Transport, University of Westminster
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Research Fellow in Social Epidemiology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Transport and Health, Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor and Founding Director of QUT Centre for the Digital Economy, Queensland University of Technology
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PhD Student, Queensland University of Technology
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Adjunct Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Professorial Fellow, Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University; Emeritus Professor, Wertheim School of Public Health, University of California San Diego, University of California, San Diego
