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The health impacts of public transport
Published in Corinne Mulley, John D. Nelson, Stephen Ison, The Routledge Handbook of Public Transport, 2021
Melanie Crane, Christopher Standen
The opportunity for public transport to contribute to improving health by reducing the risk of chronic non-communicable diseases relies on decreasing the distance to public transport options and integration with walking and cycling infrastructure. Lack of public transport options and poor integration with walking and cycling infrastructure and mobility options for people with disabilities continue to encourage private motor vehicle transport and perpetuate poor health outcome.
Cycling in Amsterdam, if you can do it here, you’ll do it anywhere
Published in Michèle Pezzagno, Maurizio Tira, Town and Infrastructure Planning for Safety and Urban Quality, 2018
CycleRap has three composite indicators of cycling infrastructure Quality of surface;Obstacles on cycling infrastructure;Alignment.
Cycling as social practice: a collective autoethnography on power and vélomobility in the city
Published in Mobilities, 2023
Léa Ravensbergen, Joanna Ilunga-Kapinga, Sabat Ismail, Aayesha Patel, Avet Khachatryan, Kevin Wong
These examples illustrate how Hijabs and Helmets and the Women’s Cycling Network help under-represented cyclists develop competencies, obtain access to materials, and change the meanings of cycling for diverse communities. In addition, WCN advocates for expanding access to safe cycling facilities in areas such as Thorncliffe Park and Flemingdon Park, and in suburban areas that are currently under-served regarding cycling access (CBC 2020). Ultimately, addressing the power imbalances and structural inequalities in cycling requires both ‘physical infrastructure’ and ‘human infrastructure’ approaches, where ‘physical’ approaches refer to an equity-focused planning framework and engagement process that bring safe and connected cycling infrastructure to underserved communities, and ‘human’ approaches normalize cycling culture for groups that traditionally face barriers and discriminations to cycling. As this article notes—both approaches need to be cognisant of how the barriers to meanings, competencies, and materials targeted through these physical and human infrastructures are rooted in systems of racism, patriarchy, classism, and automobility.
Assessing the potential of cycling growth in Toronto, Canada
Published in International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 2023
Alexander Tabascio, Ignacio Tiznado-Aitken, Darnel Harris, Steven Farber
Spatial data of essential locations, hospitals, schools, parks, and grocery stores can be overlaid to evaluate accessibility to these locations for different modes and how it changes due to safety and network constraints. A TCP approach can also be helpful as a benchmark and measure of equity-planning across different modes and socio-demographic groups. Golub and Martens (2014) employ an access poverty ratio of one-third transit access to car access to identify communities of access poverty that do not meet this threshold to evaluate the impact of several different planning scenarios in Oakland, California. A similar process can be done using TCP and incorporating different Levels of Traffic Stress to assess the equity of future infrastructure projects. The promotion of active transportation modes is critical to creating sustainable cities, given their positive impact on environmental, economic and social aspects of society. For this to happen, cycling infrastructure must be created and maintained in an equitable way to serve communities experiencing transport poverty, and meet the needs of cyclists of all ages and abilities.
Cycling near misses: a review of the current methods, challenges and the potential of an AI-embedded system
Published in Transport Reviews, 2021
Mohamed R. Ibrahim, James Haworth, Nicola Christie, Tao Cheng, Stephen Hailes
Cycling has increased in popularity in Europe and elsewhere globally (Dozza, Schwab, & Wegman, 2017). Whether cycling for leisure or commuting, its benefits in terms of public health and the reduction of environmental pollution have influenced planners and policy-makers to invest in cycling infrastructure (de Hartog, Boogaard, Nijland, & Hoek, 2010; Juhra et al., 2012; Pucher, Dill, & Handy, 2010; Steinbach, Green, Datta, & Edwards, 2011). Globally, various policies, programmes and physical and non-physical interventions have taken place to promote cycling (Pucher et al., 2010; Savan, Cohlmeyer, & Ledsham, 2017). In the UK, Transport for London (TfL), for instance, has invested in many cycling infrastructure projects such as cycling superhighways, quiet ways, mini-Hollands and cycle hire schemes aimed at promoting a safer environment for people on bikes (TfL, 2018).