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Record Nr.

UNINA9910583050403321

Autore

Bopp Melissa

Titolo

Bicycling for transportation : an evidence-base for communities / / Melissa Bopp, Dangaia Sims, Daniel Piatkowski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Oxford, United Kingdom ; ; Cambridge, MA : , : Elsevier, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

0-12-812643-4

0-12-812642-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

388.3472

Soggetti

Bicycle commuting

Cycling

Bicycles

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The bicycle : a technological and social history -- Benefits and risks of bicycling -- Measuring bicycling within the community -- Why we bike and why we don't -- Institutional strategies for promoting biking -- Community-level strategies for promoting bicycling -- If we build it, will they come? Environmental approaches to bicycle promotion -- Policy and law approaches to bicycling -- Changing biking behavior : an application of the evidence -- Bringing it all together : bicycling around the world.

Sommario/riassunto

"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 research related to bicycling for transportation. The book examines the variability in biking participation among different demographic groups, and the multiple levels of influence on biking, to better inform researchers and guide practitioners in the effective use of community resources, programming, and policy-making"--Back cover.