Behaviour change programs offer an effective method of reducing unnecessary car use. Providing information and education on the benefits walking, cycling and public transport, through programs such as TravelSmart has brought measurable reductions in car use. By working in concert with infrastructural improvements, behaviour change programs offer an important addition to the transport planners toolkit.
Australia:
- TravelSmart Australia
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The primary information portal for the national TravelSmart program. Excellent source of information on how the TravelSmart program benefits governments, schools, businesses and communities. - Telfer, B., Rissel, C., Bindon, J., Bosch, T., 2006, Encouraging cycling through a pilot cycling proficiency training program among adults in central Sydney, Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, Vol. 9, p. 151 – 156.
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This paper evaluates the effectiveness of bicycle proficiency training on future rates of riding participation. - Commute Trip Reduction (CTR), Programs that encourage employees to use efficient commute options - Victoria Transport Policy Institute
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This chapter describes Commute Trip Reduction programs, which encourage more efficient commute travel. These programs provide encouragement, incentives and support for commuters to use of alternative modes (such as walking, cycling, ridesharing, public transit and telework), alternative work hours, and other efficient transportation options. - ABC Radio National - Life Matters - podcast (3 June 2008): "The Bicycle Family" - guest Kathy Richards, presenter Richard Aedy, producer Amanda Armstrong and researcher Tracey Trompf
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Getting sick of paying through the nose for petrol? Well perhaps you can opt for the lifestyle of today's Meet the Listener guest, Kathy Richards.
Kathy called into a talkback we had back in 2006 on the love of cars to tell us about her lack of car and love of bicycles. She was a family of three at that time now she's on her way to making it a family of four.
Can she keep this bicycle lifestyle going when number two child arrives?
Kathy and partner Matt are well equipped with all kinds of gadgets including a bike trailer that converts to a pram. -
ABC Radio National - Life Matters - podcast (13 June 2008): "Talkback: City Cycle" - guests Ben Wilson; Manager, Bicycle Queensland, Dr Matthew Burke; Urban Research Program, Griffith University, Coral Taylor; Director NRMA, Belinda Keir; Cyclist and John Hack; Manager, Cycle2City, presenter Richard Aedy, producer Amanda Armstrong and researcher Lindy Raine
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In European cities bicycles rival cars as a major form of transport, and cycling is greenhouse friendly.
Although we're building more bikepaths, it's usual for cyclists to share the road, which is risky for them and annoying for drivers.
So can cycling really be an alternative in Australian cities?
Australian Capital Territory:
- TravelSmart Australian Capital Territory
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This is the central access point for information on the Australian Capital Territory’s TravelSmart program.
New South Wales:
- Bowles, H.R., Rissel, C., Bauman, A., 2006, Mass community cycling events: who participates and is their behaviour influenced by participation?, The International Journal of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity, Vol. 2, Issue 39.
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This research paper investigates the type of people participating in mass cycling events and the subsequent effect on cycling behaviour. - New South Wales Health Department, Physical Activity and Nutrition
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It's never too late to start being active and some activity is better than none at all - starting to do some form of activity can help you on the road to good health. - The Australian Bicycling Achievemnet Awards 2007
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The winner of the Local Government Award for initiative to encourage and promote cycling was won by Fairfield City Council Visit Site for the provision of 100 km of infrastructure that links to other LGA's, transport hubs and a scenic areas, a cycling loan scheme and a dedicated facility for local cycling user groups to promote cycling. For more information the Firfield City Council - Cycling and Walking webpage Visit Site
The winner of the 2007 award for Contribution towards Cycling by a Politician was won by Clover Moore MP, state member for Sydney and Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney. Ms Moore is a long time advocate of cycling within both state and local government and has set a target of increaseing cycling to 10% of all trips made. For more information on cycling within the City of Sydney - Cycling webpage Visit Site
Northern Territory:
- TravelSmart Northern Territory
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This is the central access point for information on THE Northern Territory’s TravelSmart program.
Queensland:
- TravelSmart Queensland
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This is the central access point for information on Queensland’s TravelSmart program.
South Australia:
- Adelaide Free City Bike Program is promoted by the South Australian Government Visit Site and Bicycle South Australia websites Visit Site . The free city bike program provides 2 hours free bicycle hire in Adelaide’s CBD. Run by Adelaide City Council and Bicycle South Australia.
- TravelSmart South Australia
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This is the central access point for information on South Australia’s TravelSmart program.
Tasmania:
- TravelSmart University of Tasmania
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TravelSmart pilot project focused on students at the University of Tasmania.
Victoria
- Rose, G., 2003, Bikes and travel behaviour change – a transport engineers perspective, Institute of Transport Studies, Monash University, Melbourne. Presentation at Connecting Cycling, Canberra, 20 - 21 November.
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This presentation explores the balance between travel behaviour change programs such as TravelSmart, with other methods of encouragement, such as bicycle infrastructure improvements. - Rose, G., Marfurt, H., Harbutt, P., 2003, Using a ride to work day event to promote travel behaviour change, Presented at the 26th Australasian Transport Research Forum, Wellington, New Zealand, October 1 -3.
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This research paper investigates the effect of the Ride to Work initiatives on sustained cycling participation. - TravelSmart Victoria, website, TravelSmart Research.
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A large bank of research on TravelSmart and other behaviour change initiatives focused on reducing car use. - TravelSmart Victoria
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The homepage for the Victorian TravelSmart program. This is an excellent place to start to find out about the range of TravelSmart initiatives available, in the education, communities, workplaces and local government sectors.
Western Australia:
- Greig, R., 2005, Cycling promotion in Western Australia, Premier’s Physical Activity Taskforce, Presentation given at Planning for Healthy Communities Conference, Brisbane, October.
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This presentation gauges the view from cyclists and non-cyclists regarding the factors that encourage and discourage cycling amongst the public. - TravelSmart Western Australia
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This is the central access point for information on Western Australia’s TravelSmart program. - City of Melville, WA - SMARTi Program
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SMARTi stands for ‘Smarter Mobility Achieving Reduced Traffic Initiative’. SMARTi seeks to reduce traffic congestion by decreasing the amount of journeys taken by motor vehicles; specifically single occupant vehicle trips. SMARTi provides information and incentives for you to consider the most suitable transport mode. SMARTi is funded by the Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and Arts and the City of Melville. The SMARTi travel log Visit Site is available here. The SMARTi program is being offered to businesses within the Canning Bridge Precinct to encourage staff to use active transport modes to and from work.
International
- Road Directorate, Best practice to promote cycling and walking
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The ADONIS project was commissioned by the European Commission to a Consortium comprising 7 partners as part of the Fourth Framework Programme. Original title of the project is: Analysis and Development Of New In-sight into Substitution of short car trips by cycling and walking - ADONIS.
The ADONIS project was partly funded by the EU - DG VII Transport RTD Programme, Urban Sector and was co-financed by Danish Transport Council, Danish Ministry of Transport, Municipality of Barcelona, Catalan In-stitute of Road safety, SAINCO TRAFICO S.A., Swedish Transport & Communications Research Board and Belgian Institute for Traffic Safety.
The entire PDF View PDF (45Mb), smaller PDF sections of the document are available on the website. - Bicycling Empowerment Network (BEN) Namibia
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2008 is shaping up to be an exciting year for BEN Namibia. Since we began in May 2005 we have grown from a small NGO that distributed three bicycles in its first month, into a dynamic and rapidly expanding organisation that has implemented 5 community based bicycle shops (with 3 more on the way), developed a bicycle ambulance for emergency medical transport and delivered 50 throughout the country, conducted research into the impact of transport on access to treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS, trained over 100 people in bicycle mechanics, directly created jobs for 30 people and helped over 4,000 disadvantaged Namibians, many of them HIV/AIDS home based care volunteers, to gain access to affordable transport in the form of bicycles.
International Videos
- Fried, B. (23 June 2008) StreetFilms.org - "Car-Free Vancouver Day" (1.32 min video)
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Streetfilms' guest correspondent Frank Lopez leads this tour of Vancouver's Car-Free Day, which opens up streets in four neighborhoods for community festivals. Dancing on the pavement, lunching on the street, and mid-block lucha libre wrestling matches ensue. - Eckerson, C. Jr., StreetFilms.org (USA) - "Bike Boxes" (2008) (1.45 min video)
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The NYC DOT has been quietly rolling out dozens of bike boxes all over Gotham. It’s really quite remarkable. But since the majority of riders seem not to know what they are or how to use them just yet, StreetFilms thought this would be a fun way to educate cyclists to love and cherish the Bike Box. - StreetFilms.org (USA) - "The Case for Separated Bike Lanes in NYC" (2006) (8.30 min video)
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Advocates from Transporation Alternatives, The Project for Public Spaces, and The Open Planning Project join "Gridlock Sam" Schwartz and Enrique Penalosa to call for New York City to consider experimenting with some physically separated bike lanes in the near future. - Bike hire / sharing system in Paris - "Vélo Liberté" or Freedom Bike.
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An overview of the new bike sharing system being rolled out in Paris. - Transport for London website - provides an encouragement program for their employees to cycle to work
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The site provides information on bike parking, bike pooling, travel plans to work and tax exemptions - cycle to work schemes. - Clark Jones, c. (2007) "A Bicycle Story" (3.00 min video)
Visit Site - "Green Bike Program" (2007) (1.37 min video)
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Rescues, restores and redistributes bike left on campus at Pitzer College, USA. -
"Portland Considered Most Bicycle-Friendly City in America" (2008) (8.30 min video)Visit Site
produced by Democracy Now (USA). - I-Ce & PPQ (2007) "Cycling Friendly Cities" (15 min low resolution video)
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scripted by Enrique Penalosa the film shows cycle friendly cities in Denmark, Paris and Columbia. - Eckerson, C. Jr. (2007) "Ciclovia: Bogotá, Colombia" (9:41 min video) - StreetFilms.org
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Recently, I had the opportunity to travel with comrades Karla Quintero and Aaron Naparstek to Bogotá, Colombia to document some of the amazing advances going on in the livable streets movement there. On Sunday we spent the entire day - from 5 AM ’til nearly 5 PM - riding bicycles around the city courtesy of the Ciclovia, a weekly event in which over 70 miles of city streets are closed to traffic where residents come out to walk, bike, run, skate, recreate, picnic, and talk with family, neighbors & strangers…it is simply one of the most moving experiences I have had in my entire life. -
Eckerson, C. Jr. (2007) "Tour de Brooklyn" (3.25 min video) - StreetFilms.org
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This year’s 3rd annual Tour de Brooklyn was a special treat as New York City DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan rode the entire event with over 2,000 enthusiastic cyclists. The excursion covered 18 miles and started in Grand Army Plaza, headed down 4th Avenue to Bay Ridge, then stopped in Dyker Heights for a respite before returning back to Prospect Park. As always with the TdB, the emphasis is on friends, family, and fun.
- Eckerson Jr., C. (2007) "Interview with Enrique Peñalosa" - (12.07 min video) NYC Street Renaissance, StreetFilms.org
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Dr Peñalosa, Ex Mayor of Bogota and bicycle advocate. Dr Peñalosa changed the way Bogota treated its non-driving citizens by restricting automobile use and instituting a bus rapid transit system which now carries a 1/2 million residents daily. Among other improvements: he widened and rebuilt sidewalks, created grand public spaces, and implemented over one hundred miles of bicycle paths.
TOPP Executive Director Mark Gorton discusses with Penalosa some of these transportation achievements and asks what the future could hold for NYC if similar improvements were made here. - Eckerson Jr., C. (2008) "Lessons from Bogota" - (9.58 min video) NYC Street Renaissance, StreetFilms.org
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In the final chapter of our September NYCSR visit to Colombia, where the indefatigable Gil Peñalosa was our tour guide, you’ll find lots of tasty video morsels including: riding the comfortable ciclorutas and cycle paths, a visit to a thriving pedestrian-only street where they said it couldn’t be done, a “bollard farm,” mucho footage of the city’s parks and public spaces and comments from the city’s residents. And we couldn’t resist - just a wee bit more dance mania at the Recreovia. - Recycle-a-bicycle program in the US
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Recycle-a-Bicycleis an innovative, fun youth training and environmental education initiative that has taken root in New York City public schools and respected after-school youth programs. Recycle-A-Bicycle promotes everyday bicycle use, and it is a great place to learn bicycle mechanics, interact with positive, forward-thinking NYC youth. Our retail shops are the place to find that city bike you need. - Press, E. (2008) "RAB Ladies Repair" (3:30 min video) NYC Street Renaissance, StreetFilms.org
Continuing with our NYC bike month coverage, last week I had the chance to shoot at Recycle-A-Bicycle in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Recycle-A-Bicycle takes donated bicycles, repairs them and reintroduces them to the community through earn-a-bike programs in schools and sales from their non-profit retail locations. Although their work mainly focuses on environmental education and job training programs for New York City youth, they also host repair classes for people of all ages. Every Tuesday evening after the shop closes, Susan Lindell teaches bike mechanics 101 to women. Check out this video on Ladies Repair Night.
