Investing more in cycling and walking would boost both physical and economic health, with a typical return of $5 for every $1 spent on cycling infrastructure.
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In England, one in fifty children cycle to school. But if English children cycled at the same rates as Dutch children, this could rise to two in five.
Urban planners often hope bike-share schemes might reduce reliance on cars and help with congestion. But very few of those who use share bikes have switched from driving.
Successful policy interventions, especially those in the social realm influenced by the vagaries of human behaviour, don’t seem to travel well.
Bike lanes in South Africa were meant to encourage commuter cycling and ease congestion but in Johannesburg the initiative garnered more outrage than support.
Bike sharing has huge potential benefits - even for people who don't use them.
Plans for a new £600m “floating” cycle route along the edge of the River Thames in London have been announced. It is expected to stretch for around seven miles from Battersea, west of the city centre…
Governments around the world are pushing to get their citizens to cycle more. Without necessary infrastructure, however…
Much has been said in recent weeks about the death toll of cyclists in London. Yet the only immediate response media coverage seems to have produced is police on street corners handing out tickets to cyclists…
It has been a grim month for cycling in London. Just days ago newspapers wrote of five deaths in nine days, and barely is the ink dry before yet another death this morning makes six in under two weeks…
Bristol will be the first British city to “go Dutch” after the city council gave the green light to building a European-style cycle network that would not be shared with road traffic. The city’s plans…
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Professor of Transport Engineering, University of the West of England
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Professor of Transport, University of Westminster
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Professor of Transport, Energy and Environment, University of Birmingham
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Principal Research Associate, University of Cambridge
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Lecturer in Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Associate Professor in Transport Data Science, University of Leeds
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Senior Lecturer in Transport, University of Huddersfield
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Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health, Curtin University
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PhD Candidate, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle
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Postdoctoral fellow in the history, politics and sociology of transport with a special focus on urban bicycling, University of the Witwatersrand
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African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (ACEPS), Philosophy Department, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, The University of Queensland
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Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland
