What we do
Cycling in Cities is a research program mainly investigating factors that encourage or discourage cycling, and route designs associated with increased or decreased risks of cycling injuries. Our studies are outlined in the table below and described in more detail throughout the website.
Some of our publications
Cycling safety
- Cycling injury rates in Canadian provinces with different helmet laws & mode shares
- Route infrastructure and the risk of injuries to cyclists
- Effects of infrastructure on cycling injury at intersections and non-intersections
- Cycling crash circumstances vary by route type
- Traffic Circles – Impact on motor vehicle, cyclist-MV, & pedestrian-MV crashes with injuries
- Cycling crashes on streetcar (tram) or train tracks - causes and prevention measures
- Injury severity and personal, trip, route and crash characteristics
- The impact of transportation infrastructure on cycling injuries and crashes: A review
- Safe cycling: How do risk perceptions compare with observed risk?
- Personal and trip characteristics associated with safety equipment use by injured adult cyclists
- Is scientific evidence in practice? A review of driver & cyclist education materials with respect to cycling safety evidence
Motivating cycling
- Route preferences among adults in the near market for cycling
- Motivators and deterrents of cycling: comparing influences on decisions to ride
- Proximity to bikeways & neighbourhood cycling mode share of male & female commuters
- Bike Score® & cycling to work mode share
- Mapping bikeability: A spatial tool to support sustainable travel
- How far out of the way will we travel? Built environment influences on route selection for bike & car travel
- Built environment influences on healthy transportation choices: cycling vs. driving
- Utilitarian cycling: a multilevel analysis of climate and personal influences
- Bike share system impact on population bicycling
- Current, potential, and unlikely users of a bike share program
- Facilitators & barriers to bike share in a city with compulsory helmet legislation
Transportation health & safety
- Exposure-based traffic crash injury rates by mode of travel in British Columbia
- Cycling: Health risk or benefit?
Our studies
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Bicycling Hospitalization Rates in Canadian Jurisdictions |
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Analyses examining associations between hospitalization rates and helmet legislation, mode share, sex, age group. Complete, published. |
Understanding a New Bikeshare Program: Motivators, Deterrents & Equity |
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Investigated factors influencing uptake of bike share in Vancouver & impact of system on bicycling, using population and member surveys. Papers published. |
Bicyclists' Injuries & the Cycling Environment ("the BICE Study") |
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Investigated which transportation infrastructure increases or decreases cycling injury risk. 690 adult participants in Toronto & Vancouver. Papers published. Study starting in 2017 will use the same method to estimate infrastructure risk in injured children in Vancouver, Toronto, and Calgary. |
Opinion Survey on Cycling Motivators & Deterrents |
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Surveyed 1400 Metro Vancouverites about 16 routes types and 73 factors influencing cycling. Results published. |
Tools and Training for Healthy Travel |
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Mapping Cycling for Bikeability |
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Bikeability index developed and mapped for Metro Vancouver. Results published.
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Cycling, Air Pollution & Health |
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Investigated relationship between air pollution and cyclists' health. Results being presented and published. |
Climate & Cycling |
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Examined effect of climate, demographics & population on cycling in Canadian cities. Results published. |