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Frequent public transit users views and attitudes toward cycling in Canada in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

Several Canadian cities observed a shift from public transit use to private cars and active transport modes during the COVID-19 pandemic. At a moment where pre-pandemic public transit users are reconsidering their travel options, studies describing their attitudes toward cycling are lacking. Because...

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Autores principales: Batomen, Brice, Cloutier, Marie-Soleil, Palm, Matthew, Widener, Michael, Farber, Steven, Bondy, Susan J, Ruggiero, Erica Di
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Southeast University. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9790877/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.multra.2022.100067
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author Batomen, Brice
Cloutier, Marie-Soleil
Palm, Matthew
Widener, Michael
Farber, Steven
Bondy, Susan J
Ruggiero, Erica Di
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description Several Canadian cities observed a shift from public transit use to private cars and active transport modes during the COVID-19 pandemic. At a moment where pre-pandemic public transit users are reconsidering their travel options, studies describing their attitudes toward cycling are lacking. Because most trips in urban areas involve short- and mid-range travel, cycling is seen as a promising environmentally sustainable means of transportation. This study aims to describe how pre-pandemic public transit users in Toronto and Vancouver view cycling, including their comfort with available infrastructure, cycling frequency, and perceived barriers to adoption. Data from the Public Transit and COVID-19 Survey, a web-based panel survey of over 3500 regular transit riders in Toronto and Vancouver administered in May 2020 and April 2021 were analysed. Applying Geller's typology, 70% of participants could be classified as interested but concerned and one fifth as no way no how regarding their comfort levels toward cycling. Women were more likely to be no way no how cyclist type. Weather, lack of safe routes, and having to carry things were the main barriers to cycling in both cities. Our results give insight on who should be targeted by city initiatives aiming to promote changes toward more active modes of transportation. Further studies with a causal design are required to identify possible mitigating strategies to the main barriers to cycling.
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spelling pubmed-97908772022-12-27 Frequent public transit users views and attitudes toward cycling in Canada in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic Batomen, Brice Cloutier, Marie-Soleil Palm, Matthew Widener, Michael Farber, Steven Bondy, Susan J Ruggiero, Erica Di Multimodal Transportation Full Length Article Several Canadian cities observed a shift from public transit use to private cars and active transport modes during the COVID-19 pandemic. At a moment where pre-pandemic public transit users are reconsidering their travel options, studies describing their attitudes toward cycling are lacking. Because most trips in urban areas involve short- and mid-range travel, cycling is seen as a promising environmentally sustainable means of transportation. This study aims to describe how pre-pandemic public transit users in Toronto and Vancouver view cycling, including their comfort with available infrastructure, cycling frequency, and perceived barriers to adoption. Data from the Public Transit and COVID-19 Survey, a web-based panel survey of over 3500 regular transit riders in Toronto and Vancouver administered in May 2020 and April 2021 were analysed. Applying Geller's typology, 70% of participants could be classified as interested but concerned and one fifth as no way no how regarding their comfort levels toward cycling. Women were more likely to be no way no how cyclist type. Weather, lack of safe routes, and having to carry things were the main barriers to cycling in both cities. Our results give insight on who should be targeted by city initiatives aiming to promote changes toward more active modes of transportation. Further studies with a causal design are required to identify possible mitigating strategies to the main barriers to cycling. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Southeast University. 2023-06 2022-12-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9790877/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.multra.2022.100067 Text en © 2022 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Frequent public transit users views and attitudes toward cycling in Canada in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
title Frequent public transit users views and attitudes toward cycling in Canada in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
title_full Frequent public transit users views and attitudes toward cycling in Canada in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
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title_short Frequent public transit users views and attitudes toward cycling in Canada in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
title_sort frequent public transit users views and attitudes toward cycling in canada in the context of the covid-19 pandemic
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