Sevilla: A Successful Experience of Bicycle Promotion in a Mediterranean Context

From 2006 to 2011 Sevilla experienced a rapid growth in urban cycling, from a negligible participation in the modal split up to 9% of the total mechanical trips. This rapid growth was based on some active policies heavily based on the building of a continuous and homogeneous network of segregated cycle paths. In this paper the authors analyse the main guidelines for the development of this infrastructure, as well as its impact on urban mobility and bicycle traffic safety. The authors found that the risk of cycling was reduced in parallel to the increase in the number of cyclists, in agreement with the safety in numbers hypothesis. Future trends for further improving bike mobility are also described and analysed. Finally, the authors make an estimation of the possible effects on bicycle use of a hypothetical compulsory helmet regulation, a possibility that is presently under debate in Spain.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.2495/SC140651
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  • Abstract reprinted with permission from WIT Press.
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• Authors:
  • Marqués, R
  • Hernández-Herrador, V
  • Calvo-Salazar, M
• Conference:
  • 9th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability
  • Location: Siena , Italy
  • Date: 2014-9-23 to 2014-9-25
• Publication Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Pagination: 13p
• Monograph Title: The Sustainable City IX: Urban Regeneration and Sustainability
• Serial:
  • WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment
  • Volume: 191
  • Publisher: WIT Press
  • ISSN: 1743-3541
  • Serial URL: http://www.witpress.com/elibrary/wit-transactions-on-ecology-and-the-environment

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bicycle helmets; Bicycle lanes; Bicycles; Highway safety; Mobility; Modal split; Sustainable transportation; Vehicle sharing
• Geographic Terms: Seville (Spain)
• Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01583112
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9781845648213
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 23 2015 8:08AM