An Analysis of the Role of Cycling in Sustainable Urban Mobility
Subtitle: The Importance of the Bicycle
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publisher
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9781527549920; 9781527548909
Subjects: Bicycles; Urban transportation; Environmental aspects; Sustainable urban development; Bicyclettes; Transports urbains; Aspect de l'environnement; Urbanisme durable
Description: This book analyses the reasons why cycling is returning to cities around the world as an essential element in solving and overcoming the crisis of the dominant car-centric model of urban mobility, with its known adverse consequences of congestion, pollution and urban space consumption. It argues that it is not possible to solve this crisis without giving a central role to the bicycle, both as a mode of transport in itself and as an integrating and cohesive element of other forms of transport. The bicycle, due to its special characteristics of autonomy, simplicity and energy efficiency, must be.
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.