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While factors such as urban form, infrastructure, and attitudes motivate cycling, the experience of cycling can vary drastically across socioeconomic groups. In the case of low-income immigrants, the experience can be constrained both by income and by cultural factors. In this study, The author asks what contributes to the cycling experience for Latino immigrants. Results are based on 23 individual in-depth interviews in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through an iterative qualitative coding process, five prominent themes emerged from those conversations. The author finds that Latino immigrants discover freedom and emotion in cycling, that cultural norms both motivate and constrain bicycle use, and that immigrant cyclists face unique opportunities and barriers when spatially navigating the city. Furthermore, cost and traffic safety concerns are also present, but providing remittances for families and living in disinvested neighborhoods creates a distinct set of experiences that others may not face. Cultural identity plays a strong role in encouraging and dissuading cycling among Latino immigrants.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANF20 Standing Committee on Bicycle Transportation.

01618707

17-02155

English

0000-0001-8966-5778

16p

2017

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

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Bicycling; Culture (Social sciences); Immigrants; Qualitative analysis; Social factors

Latin America; San Francisco Bay

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Society

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-02155

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 8 2016 10:47AM