Cycling in urban environments: Quantitative text analysis

Urban transport has been dealing with traffic congestion, motorized transportation, and the huge amount of urban pollution, becoming a public health problem. Recently, cycling in urban environments has been proposed to address these problems. This paper provides the first text-based analysis of documents included in the Scopus database related to cycling in urban environments, as it facilitates the extraction of useful knowledge for urban transport problems solving and decision making. Titles, abstracts and author keywords were analyzed, resulting in 7,743 documents. The results showed 5,678 (unique) words, with “system”, “model”, “traffic”, “public” and “travel” as the most important terms (excluding search keywords). “Physical activity” and “bike sharing system” were the most repeated bigram and trigram, respectively. Analysis of the 15 identified topics resulted in selecting the following important ones: smart urban mobility, bike sharing stations, cycling infrastructure, bicycle traffic, cycling as urban transport, and bicycling behavior. These topics indicate the interest in the structural factors of cycling in urban environments to promote cycling by offering facilities to users. However, the health benefits of cycling were found to be secondary. This study provides a useful overview to guide future research and support policies that encourage the use of active urban transport.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2023.101651
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214140523000877
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Antón-González, Laura
  • 0000-0002-5571-8963
  • Pans, Miquel
  • 0000-0003-0763-1879
  • Devís-Devís, J
  • 0000-0003-4599-3782
  • González, Luis-Millán
• Publication Date: 2023-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: 101651
• Serial:
  • Journal of Transport & Health
  • Volume: 32
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 2214-1405
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/22141405

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Bicycling; Data analysis; Infrastructure; Traffic safety; Urban areas
• Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01889150
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 27 2023 4:55PM