Quantifying Spatial Variation in Interest in Bike Riding
medRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.14.21253340; this version posted May 11, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license . 1 The potential for bike riding across entire cities: quantifying spatial variation in interest in bike riding 2 Lauren K Pearsona, Joanna Dipnalla,b, Belinda Gabbea,c, Sandy Braafa, Shelley Whitec, Melissa Backhousec, Ben Becka 3 Keywords: Cycling, active transport, bike riding, health promotion 4 a) School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Victoria, Australia 5 b) School of Medicine, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia 6 c) Health Data Research UK, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom 7 d) VicHealth, Victoria, Australia 8 9 ABSTRACT 10 Background: Riding a bike is beneficial for health, the environment and for reducing traffic congestion. Despite this, bike 11 riding participation in the state of Victoria, Australia, is low. To inform planning and practice, there is a need to understand 12 the proportion of the population (the ‘near-market’) that are interested in riding a bike, and how this varies across regions. 13 The Geller typology classifies individuals into one of four groups, based on their confidence to ride a bike in various 14 infrastructure types, and frequency of bike riding. The typology has been used at a city, state and country-wide scale, 15 however not at a smaller spatial scale.
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