
Bicycling for Transportation
An Evidence-Base for Communities
Description
Key Features
- Provides evidence-based insights on cost-effective interventions for improving biking participation
- Includes numerous case studies and best practices that highlight multi-level approaches in a variety of settings
- Explores individual and social factors related to biking behavior, such as race, gender and self-efficacy
Readership
Bicycle transportation researchers and students, urban planners, public health researchers and practitioners, government policy makers and community organizers
Table of Contents
1. The Bicycle: A Technological and Social History
2. Benefits and Risks of Bicycling
3. Measuring Bicycling Within the Community
4. Why We Bike and Why We Don’t
5. Institutional Strategies for Promoting Biking
6. Community-Level Strategies for Promoting Bicycling
7. If We Build It, Will They Come? Environmental Approaches to Bicycle
8. Policy and Law Approaches to Bicycling
9. Changing Biking Behavior: An Application of the Evidence
10. Bringing it all Together: Bicycling Around the World
Product details
- No. of pages: 246
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2018
- Published: April 16, 2018
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128126424
- eBook ISBN: 9780128126431