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Bicycling during alcohol intoxication

open access: yesTraffic Safety Research, 2023
The number of bicycling fatalities was 19 450 between 2010 and 2018 in Europe. The number of bicyclists killed when intoxicated by alcohol is harder to establish given the lack of reliable data.
Jan Andersson   +6 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Valuing public investments to support bicycling [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
We develop a framework for assessing the net benefits of investments to promote bicycling, which explicitly accounts for internal costs of bicycling. We apply our model to eight Swiss cities using data from the Swiss national travel survey and find that ...
Götschi, Thomas   +3 more
core   +1 more source

The Emergence of Bicycling and Automobility in Britain

open access: yes, 2021
In the late 19th century, bicyling and motoring offered new ways for a hardy minority to travel. Escaping from the 'tyranny' of the train timetables, these entrepreneurs were able to promote private mobility when the road, technology and infrastructure ...
Horner, Craig
core   +1 more source

Bicycling and walking are associated with different cortical oscillatory dynamics

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2016
Although bicycling and walking involve similar complex coordinated movements, surprisingly Parkinson’s patients with freezing of gait typically remain able to bicycle despite severe difficulties walking.
Lena eStorzer   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Personal and behavioral factors associated with bicycling in adults from Curitiba, Parana State, Brazil

open access: yesCadernos de Saúde Pública, 2014
Bicycling is an important form of physical activity that can promote health benefits. The objective of this study was to analyze the association between personal and behavioral aspects in transportation bicycling and leisure time bicycling in adults ...
Marilson Kienteka   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Do people’s perceptions of neighborhood bikeability match “Reality”?

open access: yesJournal of Transport and Land Use, 2016
Do people perceive the built environment the same as we objectively measure it? If not, what are the relative roles of the objective versus the perceived environment on bicycling behavior?
Liang Ma, Jennifer Dill
doaj   +1 more source

Spatiotemporal Variation in Bicycle Road Crashes and Traffic Volume in Berlin: Implications for Future Research, Planning, and Network Design

open access: yesFuture Transportation, 2021
Urban bicycling has been largely marginalized for decades in the global north and south. Despite a renaissance over the last two decades in academic research, political discourse, sustainability activism, and planning, cities often struggle with data ...
Rafael Milani Medeiros   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of the impact of a public bicycle share program on population bicycling in Vancouver, BC

open access: yesPreventive Medicine Reports, 2018
Public bicycle share programs have been implemented in cities around the world to encourage bicycling. However, there are limited evaluations of the impact of these programs on bicycling at the population level. This study examined the impact of a public
Kate Hosford   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Who Bikes? An Assessment of Leisure and Commuting Bicycling from the Canadian Community Health Survey

open access: yesFindings, 2021
We used 2013/2014 Canadian Community Health Survey to describe who bicycles for leisure, commuting, or both leisure and commuting. Nearly one-quarter of Canadians bicycled in the 3 months prior to the survey: 7 Canadians bicycled for leisure for every 1
Caislin L. Firth   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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