City Cycling offers a guide to this urban cycling renaissance, with the goal of promoting cycling as sustainable urban transportation available to everyone.
John Pucher
Walking and Cycling for Healthy Cities
This paper provides a broad overview of the role walking and cycling can play in making our cities healthier.
Cycling to Sustainability in Amsterdam
This article examines how Amsterdam has consistently improved cycling conditions over many decades and succeeded at raising even further the share of trips by bike.
Cycling in New York: Innovative Policies at the Urban Frontier
Cycling safety has improved, with steady or declining numbers of cyclist injuries and fatalities in spite of rapidly rising cycling volumes. Some serious deficiencies remain, however
Walking and Cycling to Health: Recent Evidence from City, State, and International Comparisons
Together with many other studies, our analysis provides evidence of the population-level health benefits of active travel. Policies on transport, land-use, and urban development should be designed to encourage walking and cycling for daily travel.
Infrastructure, Programs and Policies to Increase Bicycling: An International Review
The 14 case studies show that almost all cities adopting comprehensive packages of interventions experienced large increases in the number of bicycle trips and share of people bicycling.
Recent Publications
Understanding preferences for bicycling and bicycle infrastructure
Laham, M., Noland, R., Wang, S., (2022). Understanding preferences for bicycling and bicycle infrastructure. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, https://doi.org/10.7282/00000254 Abstract Using survey data collected in New Jersey, we analyze the...
Exploring Stress Levels of E-Scooter Riders
Zhang, W., Younes, H., Von Hagen, L.A., Andrews, C., Noland, R. (2022). Exploring Stress Levels of E-Scooter Riders. Rutgers University, New Jersey State Policy Lab. https://policylab.rutgers.edu/exploring-stress-levels-of-e-scooter-riders/ Abstract E-scooters are a...
Public Views on the Reallocation of Street Space Due to COVID-19
Robert B. Noland, Evan Iacobucci & Wenwen Zhang (2022). Public Views on the Reallocation of Street Space Due to COVID-19, Journal of the American Planning Association, DOI: 10.1080/01944363.2022.2058595 Abstract Many towns and cities have reallocated street space...
Browsing for food: Will COVID-induced on-line grocery delivery persist?
Younes, H., Noland, R. B. & Zhang, W. (2022). Browsing for food: Will COVID-induced online grocery delivery persist? Regional Science Policy & Practice, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1111/rsp3.12542 Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic altered daily activities. Many...