New Year Update: final map tweaks slightly shrink LTN areas to avoid wrongly including buildings on boundary roads and to include 3 Stoke Newington filters that went in right at the end of September. As before, note that the map only covers March-September 2020, and the caveats below regarding definitions. … Continue reading
Summary: we are sharing a pre-print of analysis specifically looking at LTNs within Outer London’s mini-Holland schemes. Although the ‘LTN area’ sample size is small (most intervention areas weren’t LTNs) and uncertainty about effect sizes is large, we find consistent evidence about their direction. LTNs have reduced residents’ car ownership … Continue reading
Based on a soon-to-be-published Journal of Transport and Health paper: to follow. [Now available – free link here will work till Feb 12th] There are various problems with transport appraisal when it comes to walking and cycling schemes. Our scheme appraisal systems developed in the age of the car, hence … Continue reading
Note (5th March) – the survey has now closed and I’m analysing the data. Thanks very much to all who filled in and/or shared the survey link. Updates to follow. This post discusses why I’ve set up this pilot project, and what I hope to achieve. So I finished the … Continue reading
Reflections Issue 21 Reproduced from https://www.westminster.ac.uk/sites/default/files/rachel-aldred-cycling-reflection.pdf; published 4th August 2017. Written for the Eco-Cities Initiative Reflections Series. Cycling and culture For the best part of the last decade, I’ve kept returning to one overarching question: why – despite policy promises – have so many places failed to increase cycling, and what … Continue reading
Cross-posted from the PCT blog Tomorrow evening (15th September) James Woodcock and I are presenting the Propensity to Cycle Tool (PCT, www.pct.bike) to stakeholders at the lovely Velo House in Tunbridge Wells. We’ll be talking about what the tool can tell us about cycling potential in Tunbridge Wells and in … Continue reading
We have a London Cycle Network. But how much of it is actually cycleable? Scrap that, how much of the entire London street network is cycleable? This is something I’ve been thinking about for a while. I’d love to have a map of the whole of London’s street network (plus … Continue reading
So, I’ve been working on measuring rat-running. It’s more complicated than you’d think, largely because our tools, our models, the way we collect and analyse data, were generally set up to support private motorised transport, not to analyse its adverse impacts. (Petter Naess has a nice piece on this here). … Continue reading
Cycling is not equitably distributed across the UK population. While men and women walk around the same amount, and walking participation only declines slightly with age, the picture for cycling is very different. Statistics from the DfT suggest only one in thirty English women over 65 does any cycling – … Continue reading
I will be presenting at a number of events on planning for inclusive cycling (including a number of invited conference talks and a seminar to DfT analysts). Pulling together some slides and pictures for these, I happened to find a table I’d created that didn’t quite make it into the … Continue reading
