Our Website is Moving
One of the lead investigators of the Cycling in Cities research program, Dr. Meghan Winters, is continuing and expanding its work at Simon Fraser University. The Cities, Health and Active Transportation Research Lab website describes her team's wide-ranging bike-related research.
The Cycling in Cities content has been ported to that site. New research will be added only to the CHATR Lab website, and we will wind up the UBC site in a year or so.
Our research guided the HUB Cycling / TransLink project: Benchmarking the State of Cycling in Metro Vancouver. Note Tableau site with interactive maps - under "Bike Network".
New article estimating walking & bicycling in Canada & their fatality rates. It highlights the need for a Canadian household travel survey.
Landscape architecture professional magazine "Landscapes | Paysages" article about how to better design off-street bike paths and multiuse paths.
The Vancouver Bike Route Planner now allows users to select safer bike routes, based on evidence from our cycling safety study: bike lanes physically separated from traffic, off-street bike paths, and residential street bike routes. Thank you Melissa Nunes! Twitter @topophilo
Local Government Agencies
Langley
Metro Vancouver
New Westminster
Richmond
Port Moody
Surrey
Toronto
Township of Langley
TransLink
Vancouver
White Rock
NGOs
Canadian Cancer Society
Smart Growth BC
Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation (TCAT)
Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition (VACC)
Research Funding Agencies
Health Canada
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR)
Mitacs
Transport Canada MOST Program
Langley
Metro Vancouver
New Westminster
Richmond
Port Moody
Surrey
Toronto
Township of Langley
TransLink
Vancouver
White Rock
NGOs
Canadian Cancer Society
Smart Growth BC
Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation (TCAT)
Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition (VACC)
Research Funding Agencies
Health Canada
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR)
Mitacs
Transport Canada MOST Program
Ryerson University
Anne Harris
Simon Fraser University
Meghan Winters
Suzanne Vander Wekken
Moreno Zanotto
Kate Hosford
Nimesh Patel
Jenny Scott
University of British Columbia
Kay Teschke
Mike Brauer
Shelina Babul
Evan Beaupré
Nicole Blakely
Chris Carlsten
Peter Cripton
Christie Cole
Jill Dalton
Larry Frank
Melissa Friesen
Christie Hurrell
Martin Kang
Diana Kao
Michael Koehle
Mieke Koehoorn
Melody Monro
Kishore Mulpuri
Melissa Nunes
Jason Potter
Conor Reynolds
Hui Shen
Catherine Steer
Jason Su
Amy Thai
Angie Weddell
Imelda Wong
University of Montreal
Daniel Fuller
Lise Gauvin
Yves Kestens
University of Toronto
Mary Chipman
Michael Cusimano
Jessica Dennis
Vartouhi Jazmaji
Kevin McCurley
Andrew Thomas
Lee Vernich
University of Victoria
Eleanor Setton
Peter Keller
University of Western Ontario
Denver Nixon
Hospitals
Barb Boychuk (St. Paul's)
Jeff Brubacher (Vancouver General)
Jan Buchanan (Vancouver General)
Doug Chisholm (St. Michael's)
Nada Elfeki (St. Michael's)
Steven Friedman (University Hospital Network)
Garth Hunte (St. Paul's)
Sean Marshall (St. Michael's)
Local Governments
Graeme Brown (TransLink)
Joan Caravan (Richmond)
Gavin Davidson (TransLink)
Scott Edwards (Vancouver)
Brad Fisher (Surrey)
Michael Grant (TransLink)
Sheila Hartmann (TransLink)
Birk Madsen (Surrey)
Cam Pearce (TransLink)
Peter Stary (Vancouver)
David Tomlinson (Toronto)
Barbara Wentworth (Toronto)
NGOs
Jack Becker (Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition)
Bonnie Fenton (Vancouver Bicycle Advisory Committee)
David Hay (Richards Buell Sutton)
Cheeying Ho (Smart Growth BC)
Mary Sherlock (Vancouver Bicycle Advisory Committee)
Nancy Smith Lea (Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation)
Fred Sztabinski (Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation)
Anne Harris
Simon Fraser University
Meghan Winters
Suzanne Vander Wekken
Moreno Zanotto
Kate Hosford
Nimesh Patel
Jenny Scott
University of British Columbia
Kay Teschke
Mike Brauer
Shelina Babul
Evan Beaupré
Nicole Blakely
Chris Carlsten
Peter Cripton
Christie Cole
Jill Dalton
Larry Frank
Melissa Friesen
Christie Hurrell
Martin Kang
Diana Kao
Michael Koehle
Mieke Koehoorn
Melody Monro
Kishore Mulpuri
Melissa Nunes
Jason Potter
Conor Reynolds
Hui Shen
Catherine Steer
Jason Su
Amy Thai
Angie Weddell
Imelda Wong
University of Montreal
Daniel Fuller
Lise Gauvin
Yves Kestens
University of Toronto
Mary Chipman
Michael Cusimano
Jessica Dennis
Vartouhi Jazmaji
Kevin McCurley
Andrew Thomas
Lee Vernich
University of Victoria
Eleanor Setton
Peter Keller
University of Western Ontario
Denver Nixon
Hospitals
Barb Boychuk (St. Paul's)
Jeff Brubacher (Vancouver General)
Jan Buchanan (Vancouver General)
Doug Chisholm (St. Michael's)
Nada Elfeki (St. Michael's)
Steven Friedman (University Hospital Network)
Garth Hunte (St. Paul's)
Sean Marshall (St. Michael's)
Local Governments
Graeme Brown (TransLink)
Joan Caravan (Richmond)
Gavin Davidson (TransLink)
Scott Edwards (Vancouver)
Brad Fisher (Surrey)
Michael Grant (TransLink)
Sheila Hartmann (TransLink)
Birk Madsen (Surrey)
Cam Pearce (TransLink)
Peter Stary (Vancouver)
David Tomlinson (Toronto)
Barbara Wentworth (Toronto)
NGOs
Jack Becker (Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition)
Bonnie Fenton (Vancouver Bicycle Advisory Committee)
David Hay (Richards Buell Sutton)
Cheeying Ho (Smart Growth BC)
Mary Sherlock (Vancouver Bicycle Advisory Committee)
Nancy Smith Lea (Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation)
Fred Sztabinski (Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation)
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
| study | funders | Goal & progress |
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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. |
