Bicycling for Transportation
An Evidence-Base for Communities

An evidence-based examination of biking for transportation across individual, social, public health, environmental, economic and policy domains

Melissa Bopp (Author), Dangaia Sims (Author), Daniel Piatkowski (Author)

9780128126424, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 18 April 2018

246 pages
23.4 x 19 x 1.7 cm, 0.54 kg

Bicycling for Transportation examines the individual and societal factors of active transportation and biking behavior. The book uses an Interdisciplinary approach to provide a comprehensive overview of bicycling for transportation research. It examines the variability in biking participation among different demographic groups and the multiple levels of influence on biking to better inform researchers and practitioners on the effective use of community resources, programming and policymaking. It is an ideal resource for public health professionals trying to encourage physical activity through biking. In addition, it makes the case for new infrastructure that supports these initiatives.

1. The Bicycle: A Technological and Social History2. Benefits and Risks of Bicycling3. Measuring Bicycling Within the Community4. Why We Bike and Why We Don’t5. Institutional Strategies for Promoting Biking6. Community-Level Strategies for Promoting Bicycling7. If We Build It, Will They Come? Environmental Approaches to Bicycle8. Policy and Law Approaches to Bicycling9. Changing Biking Behavior: An Application of the Evidence10. Bringing it all Together: Bicycling Around the World

Subject Areas: Transport technology & trades [TR], Transport law [LNKT]