Promoting walking and cycling : new perspectives on sustainable travel / Colin G. Pooley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pooley, Colin G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pedestrian areas.

Bicycle trails.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 210 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book uses innovative research methods to examine why so many people fail to travel in ways that are deemed by most to be desirable - on foot or by bike. It proposes evidence-based policy solutions that could increase levels of walking and cycling substantially.

Contents:

""Promoting walking and cycling""; ""Contents""; ""Lists of maps, tables and boxes""; ""About the authors""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Preface""; ""Section I. Context""; ""1. Setting the scene and defining the problem""; ""Setting the scene""; ""Promoting sustainable mobility in Britain""; ""Academic perspectives""; ""Conclusions""; ""2. Where have we come from? The historical context""; ""How did we travel in the past and what has changed?""; ""The changing role of the bicycle in Britain""; ""The historical dominance and persistence of walking""; ""Conclusions: issues of path dependency""

""3. The global context: how is Britain different from other places?""""Urban travel outside the UK""; ""Places where walking is normal""; ""Places where cycling is normal""; ""Conclusions: Britain in a global context""; ""The research""; ""4. Researching walking and cycling""; ""The UWAC approach: introduction to the data""; ""The case study communities""; ""The limitations: what the research cannot be used to show""; ""5. How the built environment influences walking and cycling""; ""Context: the built environment and sustainable travel""

""The connectivity of the street network and access to facilities""""Spatial analysis of travel and transport: principles and problems""; ""Evaluating associations between street network connectivity,""; ""access to everyday activities and walking and cycling""; ""Conclusions and evaluation""; ""6. What do people think about everyday travel in urban areas?""; ""Introduction""; ""What do people say about how they travel?""; ""What do people say about how they would like to travel?""; ""How do people feel and relate to travel?""; ""Conclusions""

""7. The place of walking in the urban environment""""Why people walk""; ""How people walk""; ""The barriers to walking""; ""Conclusions: building walking cultures""; ""8. The role of cycling in the urban environment""; ""Why people cycle""; ""How people cycle""; ""The barriers to cycling""; ""Conclusions: building cycling cultures""; ""Policy Perspectives""; ""9. The future of walking and cycling in British urban areas""; ""Strategies for making walking normal""; ""Strategies for making cycling normal""; ""Making it all happen: issues of implementation""

""10. Conclusions: issues of society, economy and sustainability""""Connecting walking and cycling to wider society""; ""What is working now?""; ""What are the risks of doing nothing?""; ""What could be done?""; ""Concluding comments""; ""References""; ""Websites""; ""Index""

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

1-4473-1008-X

1-4473-1009-8

OCLC:

856870711