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Transportation Safety Establishment Finally Starting to Understand Bicycling
Making bicycling safe entails more than delivering lectures about helmets. National safety groups are starting to get that.
August 31, 2017
NTSB: Speed Kills, and We’re Not Doing Enough to Stop It
In a draft report released earlier this week, the National Transportation Safety Board says excessive speed is a deadly problem in our nation's transportation system -- one that federal and state officials aren't doing enough to address.
July 27, 2017
If Americans Paid for the Parking We Consume, We’d Drive 500 Billion Fewer Miles Each Year
Most parking spots might cost you nothing, but parking is never really free. We just pay for it in ways that are completely divorced from our actual consumption of parking.
July 27, 2017
Want People to Bike? Skip the Sweet Talk and Build
People don't start biking because they like bicycles. They start to like bicycles because they bike.
July 21, 2017
What’s Keeping People From Using Bike-Share? New Study Breaks It Down by Race and Income
Low-income communities and people of color view traffic risk, high prices, and the potential for crime and harassment as the biggest barriers to bicycling and using bike-share in their neighborhoods, according to a new report from researchers at Portland State University.
July 5, 2017
What Do Drivers Really Think of Cyclists?
There’s ample research out there backing up the safety benefits of streets with protected bikeways and slow car speeds. But what about the critically important yet less tangible factor of individual attitudes — how does the mind of the person behind the wheel affect driver behavior toward cyclists?
June 28, 2017
Landmark Study Tests a Bike Network’s Effects on Safety and Ridership
Which is more important to making a city great for biking: the number of high-quality bikeways, or whether they're connected to each other? A new study from Spain offers an unexpected answer.
May 31, 2017
It’s Hard to Overstate the Health Benefits of Biking to Work
A massive new study of commuters in the United Kingdom reveals that people who bike to work tend to live longer and are at lower risk of heart disease and cancer.
April 24, 2017
The Transit Riding Habit Can Last a Lifetime, But First You Need to Get People in the Habit
While the habit formation effect is real, it is not, unfortunately, very large.
April 14, 2017
Why Do Teenage Girls Lose Interest in Biking?
Jennifer Dill at Portland State University is taking a close look at why girls' attitudes about biking change over time. In a study of 300 Portland-area families, she observed that a gender gap in attitudes toward cycling isn't apparent in younger kids, but when girls reach adolescence, they don't view cycling as positively as boys do.
March 29, 2017
