This document discusses encouraging more cycling, especially among women. It notes that the proportion of female cyclists can indicate how welcoming a city is to cycling. Research shows that women tend to make more, shorter trips while juggling other tasks, so their safety, comfort and transportation needs should be specifically considered in city planning. The document outlines gaps in considering how gender influences mobility and use of public spaces. The presenter's research aims to better understand gender differences to inform inclusive planning of cities and cycling infrastructure.

1. encourage, encourage, encourage
approaching city cycling
enabling environments
Katja Leyendecker
PhD candidate
Northumbria University, Newcastle

2. Quick intro
My own
background and
motivation
WHY
HOW
WHAT

3. UK cycling constituency
Future:
Indicators / canaries for cycling environment are women cyclists
Source: Pucher & Buehler (2012)
Red: Census 2011 overlay

4. UK cycling constituency
Census 2011

5. UK cycling constituency
From the message boards
Fiona Spotswood et al (2015)
Despite significant
national and local efforts
over the last decade to
stimulate uptake of
cycling in the UK, levels
of cycling (particularly
utility cycling) remain at
around 2% of journeys
Jan Garrard
If you want to know if
an urban environment
supports cycling, you
can forget about all the
detailed ‘bikeability
indexes’—just measure
the proportion of cyclists
who are female
Source Scientific American 2009

6. Does the canary sing?
Listen to concerns of the Not-yet cycling constituency – Pooley et al (2011)
Cycling potential / interested-but-concerned – Monsere, Dill et al (2014)

7. Does the canary sing?
Women’s needs / gendered needs
• more trips
• trip-chaining
• shorter distances
• complex
• safety / security
Walking as well as cycling: wellbeing, quality of life,
liveable cities, streets for all, complete streets,
social / space fairness, environmental justice

8. Does the canary sing?
Women’s needs / gendered needs
• more trips
• trip-chaining
• shorter distances
• complex
• safety / security
Walking as well as cycling: wellbeing, quality of life,
liveable cities, streets for all, complete streets,
social / space fairness, environmental justice

9. Does the canary sing?
Women’s needs / gendered needs
• more trips
• trip-chaining
• shorter distances
• complex
• safety / security
Walking as well as cycling: wellbeing, quality of life,
liveable cities, streets for all, complete streets,
social / space fairness, environmental justice

10. Does the canary sing?
Monsere, Dill et al (2014)

11. Does the canary sing?
Monsere, Dill et al (2014)

12. Urban space
Philippe Crist (2013) presentation at Go Dutch conference in Newcastle
http://newcycling.org/lcgd-crist-video-and-slides/ pp35

13. My research (early days)
Literature gaps
1. Relating gender (inequality) to movement spaces (cycleways as an
equaliser)
2. Inter-disciplinary planning-engineering links (psychological methods
to get common sense breathed into ‘contested urban space’)
3. Observing and charting the transport transition processes (modal
shift) – longitudinal look
Research slant
Make gendered / women’s voices heard to inform planning and
engineering of urban space and cycle infrastructure

14. Thanks for listening
Contact
Email katja.leyendecker@northumbria.ac.uk
Blog https://katsdekker.wordpress.com/
Twitter @katsdekker