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Free Access to a Selection of Elsevier Cycling Articles

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Cycling is a highly topical transportation mode, which has been gaining in prominence socially, environmentally, politically and economically.

As such, we are pleased to share with you with some of our favourite cycling research published so far in Elsevier journals, offering perspectives on key subjects such as commuting, bike-sharing schemes and the bicycle helmet debate.

You can read the articles below for free online until 31 December 2013.

Forthcoming Journal of Transport Geography Special Issue: Cycling and Society

'This special issue brings together papers related to the 2012 Cycling and Society Symposium, involving a range of methods, country contexts and topics. One paper analyses cycling policy in relation to social normalisation and exclusion in Denmark, while another uses UK-based evaluative research to develop a life course approach to cycling. Three papers focus on the diverse politics of cycling; one using a case study of politics and policy in Pelotas, Brazil; one looking at the post-socialist context of Zagreb, another analysing new cycling advocacy in London. Two papers focus on cycling experiences; one on mass rides as ‘human infrastructure’ in the US, and another on everyday riding experiences in the Netherlands. The final paper reports on a project mapping cyclists’ good and bad experiences in Copenhagen, Denmark.'

Rachel Aldred, Special Issue Guest Editor