katja leyendecker - rgs midterm// sheffield march 2015

encourage, encourage, encourage

approaching city cycling enabling environments

Katja Leyendecker PhD candidate

Northumbria University, Newcastle

Quick intro

My own background and motivation

WHY

HOW

WHAT

UK cycling constituency Future: Indicators / canaries for cycling environment are women cyclists

Source: Pucher & Buehler (2012) Red: Census 2011 overlay

UK cycling constituency

Census 2011

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

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)

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

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

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

Does the canary sing?

Monsere, Dill et al (2014)

Does the canary sing?

Monsere, Dill et al (2014)

Urban space

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

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

Thanks for listening

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