The 2017 Cycling and Society Symposium focused on Cities To Share – how cycling and society interact. It was held on the 7th and 8th September, at Imperial College London.

 Programme

This was the call for abstracts for the 2017 Symposium. Thank you to all of you who submitted abstracts. We offered a varied and interesting programme that covered a range of important themes in cycling research. Please see the final programme for the two days and the Book of Abstracts.

For more photos please see our Flickr photo album.

Cosmin Popan wrote the blog post ‘Whose Biketopias’ about the event.

Presentations

Welcome from the Director of the Centre for Environmental Policy, Mark Burgman.

Key note speaker, Rachel Aldred: A decade of research into cycling culture and policy in the UK and beyond (pdf)
Mention to the 10th Anniversary of Cycling and Society book (Ashgate/Routledge).

Session 1: PLANNING

Chair: Graeme Sherriff – University of Salford, UK

• Claudia Peñaranda and Alex Longdon (Transport for London, UK):
  Analysis for developing a Strategic Cycle Network for London (pdf)
• Joseph Croft (University of Westminster, UK):
  Infrastructure and Normalisation: voices from the three Mini-Holland boroughs (pdf)
• Tim Warin (Aalborg University, UK):
  Operationalising planning for cycle transitions. An institutional perspective of Quietway 2 in London (pdf)
• Andrea Hernandez and Ditte Lanng (Aalborg University, DK):
  Mobility Acupuncture in Caracas city (pdf unavailable)

Session 2: ROAD SAFETY AND EDUCATION

Chair: Gabriele Schliwa – University of Manchester, UK

• Al Baker and Kate Pangbourne (University of Leeds, UK):
  What do online arguments about cycle safety reveal about the politics of transport? (pdf)
• Angela van der Kloof (Radboud University, NL):
  The Formation of Cycling Knowledge (pdf)
• Graeme Sherriff (University of Salford, UK):
  ‘Seeing it from a cyclist’s point of view is totally different’ Cycle training, driver training and the normalisation of cycling(pdf)
• Toby Jacobs (University of Westminster, UK):
  Analysing Bicycle Crash Risk in Portland, USA: what difference does infrastructure make? (pdf)

Documentary

Angela van der Kloof (Radboud University, NL) and Nicola Hill (The Bike Project, UK)
Introduction (pdf)

“Mama Agatha” – courtesy of The Sound of Applause Productions. (15 minutes) Discussion

Posters Ligtning presentations

Chair: Esther Anaya – Imperial College London

• Lucy Marstrand (University of Westminster, UK):
  Transport Culture and Curriculum: What’s stopping walking and cycling from being mainstream? (poster pdf and presentation pdf)
• Giulio Ferrini (Systra Consultancy, UK):
  Redefining Sustainability: cycle centric development (presentation pdf)
• Gergely Papp (PAD Foundation, HU):
  Budapest Bike Equity (presentation pdf)
• Thomas Humphries (Nottingham City Council, UK) (poster pdf and presentation pdf)

Workshop: Nottingham Cycling and the politics of spaceWorkshop by Mark Dimond (ITP Consultancy, UK) “Funding cycle network improvements: A Practical Guide”

Session 3: METHODS

Chair: Cosmin Popan – Lancaster University, UK

• Jolein Bergers, Stijn Rybels, Maarten van Acker, Tom Coppens and Dirk Lauwers (University of Antwerp, BE): The assessment of the cycling renaissance: towards a composite bikeability index for urban planners and policy-makers (pdf not available)
• Jesse van Hulst (Wanderhulst.com, NL): Cyclo-geography: The Irish borderlands in wake of Brexit (pdf)
• Adrien Caillot, Thomas Buhler and Marie-Hélène de Sède-Marceau (University of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, FR):
  Understanding the links between cyclists’ behavior and cyclability in French Cities. A mobile method with real time discourse Understanding the links between cyclists’ behavior and cyclability in French Cities. A mobile method with real time discourse (pdf)
• Oliver Blake (Utrecht University, NL):
  Incorporating the Everyday: Pedalling Towards Citizenship and Belonging (pdf)
• Gabriele Schliwa (University of Manchester, UK): Designing Urban Citizenship – Is the bike today’s ‘Trojan Horse’? (pdf not available)

Session 4: EQUITY

Chair: Angela van der Kloof – Radboud University, NL

• Simon PJ Batterbury (Lancaster University, UK and University of Melbourne, AU): Community bike workshops: creating vélonomie through the social economy (pdf)
• Katja Leyendecker (Northumbria University, UK): Making the personal political – overlaps in feminist theory and cycle activism (pdf)
• Cosmin Popan (Lancaster University, UK): Utopias of fast and slow cycling (pdf)
• Anne Jensen (Aarhus University, DK): Cycling visibilities and social equality in the city (pdf)
• Isabelle Clement and Neil Andrews (Wheels for Wellbeing, UK): How do we build an inclusive culture for disabled cyclists? (pdf)

Session 5: INTERMODALITY

Chair: Claudia Peñaranda (Transport for London)

• Nicola Waight (University of Westminster, UK): Experiences of journeys combining folding bikes and rail in the UK (pdf)
• Alberto Zanni (Independent Researcher and Consultant, UK/IT): The determinants of high modal shares in the cycling cities of Northern Italy (pdf)
• Caroline Bartle, Kiron Chatterjee and Ben Clark (University of the West of England, UK): How and why do commuters mix cycling with other modes of travel? Lessons from the North Bristol Commuter Panel (pdf)
• Mark Dimond (ITP Consultancy, UK): How the changing world of Bike Hire Technology influences the role of planning in encouraging active travel (pdf)