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Due to cycling’s many benefits, including positive health outcomes and its possible role in limiting pollution and congestion, there has recently been a dramatic increase in research on factors that could increase this activity. Researchers have found clear connections between objectively measured elements of the built and natural environment (such as bicycle routes, street connectivity, land use mix, slope, and weather), demographic and socio-economic characteristics and cycling for transportation. However, in recent years researchers have begun incorporating social and psychological factors, such as attitudes, perceptions, habits and social environments, into models and research frameworks to gain a greater understanding of roles these factors might play in travel behavior. It is becoming increasingly clear that these factors explain travel behavior as much and perhaps more than do characteristics of the built environment. This review paper therefore sets out to summarize the literature about the influence of these factors on the choice to cycle for transportation. The findings underline the importance of social and psychological factors on bicycle commuting.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANF20 Bicycle Transportation.

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13-2696

English

22p

2013

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Attitudes; Bicycling; Cyclists; Literature reviews; Psychological aspects; Social factors; Travel behavior

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-2696

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Feb 5 2013 12:34PM