On behalf of the Cycling Embassy of Great Britain, I spoke at All-party Parliamentary Cycling Group at Westminster, London

1. Neither do men
or: how we can talk inclusively about women & cycling
______________________________________________________
Cycling Embassy of Great Britain
Katja Leyendecker EurIng CEng
Researcher at Northumbria University
Prepared for presentation at APPCG 29 November 2016

2. Gendered travel characteristics
Census - commute only
short trips
trip-chaining
complex travel diaries
National Travel Survey

3. Gendered travel characteristics

4. These trips are cycled by choice in
Amsterdam
Copenhagen
… cycle cities
Where cycling
infrastructure offers the
necessary
comfort
convenience
(safety and security) Photo: Mark Treasure, CEoGB

5. Photo: Marc van Woudenberg @amsterdamize

7. Gendered cycling?
Now Future
Number of people not cycling under current condition:

8. Gendered cycling?

9. No city in Europe or North
America has achieved high level
of cycling without an extensive
network of well-integrated bike
lanes and paths that provide
separation from motor vehicle
traffic. […] Separate cycling
facilities are a crucial first step
towards increasing cycling and
making it socially inclusive.
Pucher & Buehler (2012:351)
It is clear from our research that
most non-cyclists and
recreational cyclists will only
consider cycling regularly if they
are segregated from [motor
vehicle] traffic
Pooley et al (2013:176)
Monsereetal(2014)Aldred(2014)
Interested but concerned

10. Interested but concerned

11. What’s needed?
1. Develop a fully inclusive message
>>> embracing and sympathetic to
gendered/socialised needs, and age, ability
2. Inclusive and consistent designs
>>> national cycle infrastructure design standards
to ensure high quality, IAN 195/16 is a start
3. National budget for building cycleways

12. Reading material
Aldred, R. (2015). Adults’ attitudes towards child cycling: a study of the impact of
infrastructure. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPORT AND INFRASTRUCTURE RESEARCH,
15(2), 92 - 115.
Eyer, A., & Ferreira, A. (2015). Taking the tyke on a bike: mother's; and childless women's
space- time geographies in Amsterdam compared. Environment and Planning A, 47(3), 691-
708. doi: 10.1068/a140373p
Monsere, C., Dill, J., McNeil, N., Clifton, K., Foster, N., Goddard, T., . . . Parks, J. (2014).
NITC-RR-583 Protected Lanes - lessons from the green lanes : evaluating protected bike
lanes in the US.
Pooley, C. G., Jones, T., Tight, M., Horton, D., Scheldeman, G., Mullen, C., . . . Strano, E.
(2013). Promoting Walking and Cycling : New Perspectives on Sustainable Travel. Bristol:
Policy Press.
Pucher, J. R., & Buehler, R. (2012). City cycling: MIT Press.

13. Thanks for listening
Contacts
Cycling Embassy of Great Britain
http://cycling-embassy.org.uk/
@GBCycleEmbassy
katja.leyendecker@northumbria.ac.uk
https://katsdekker.wordpress.com/
@katsdekker