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Understanding walking and cycling: Summary of key findings and recommendations (UK)

This report, published in September 2011, provides a summary of the aims, methods and key findings arising from a three year EPSRC-funded research project on the role of walking and cycling for everyday travel in English urban areas. The overall aim of the research was to gain a clear understanding of the factors that structure everyday travel in England and, especially, to investigate the reasons why people do and do not undertake short everyday journeys on foot or by bike. 

The project is a collaboration between the Universities of Lancaster, Leeds and Oxford Brookes and was funded from October 2008 to September 2011 as part of an EPSRC initiative to research walking and cycling as means of sustainable urban transport.

The project had six specific research aims:

  • How are walking and cycling incorporated into everyday routines of families, households and individuals?
  • How do walking and cycling as everyday means of transport interact with other modes?
  • How are decisions about specific walking and cycling routes made?
  • Do most individuals construct an identity of themselves and others as cyclists or walkers?
  • How do specific interventions to promote cycling and walking affect everyday decision making about short-distance travel?
  • How is the particular complexity and contingency of travel decision making with respect to cycling and walking best conveyed to planners and policy makers?

    • The project focused on four study areas: Leeds, Leicester, Worcester and Lancaster. These were selected to represent urban areas with a range of different characteristics and with varied levels of intervention to promote walking and cycling.

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