Opening Plenary

Session 1 – Cycling in Older Age

Chair: Damien Ó Tuama

• Cycling as mobility for older and disabled people in Active Neighbourhoods (pdf) – Graeme Sherriff, Ian Cookson (University of Salford, UK) (In Person)
• Planning for longevity: cycling cessation and later life mobility (pdf) – Wilbert den Hoed (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Carol Kachadoorian (dblTilde CORE, Inc.) (IP)
• Cycling and other Active Mobility Infrastructure for Older Adult Communities: How Common and Complete Are They? (pdf) – Carol Kachadoorian (dblTilde CORE, Inc.), Yongping Zhang (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona) (IP)
• Cycling Without Age – Planning for inclusive, slow social cycling for all ages and abilities (pdf) – Clara Clark (Cycling Without Age, Ireland) (IP)

Session 2 – Histories

Chair: Peter Cox

• Cycling past and present: an oral histories approach in Sheffield (pdf) – Stephen Parkes, Mia Rafalowicz-Campbell (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) (IP)
• (Re)discovering the past, imagining the future: a History Lab for Lisbon’s cycling policies (pdf) – Diego Cavalcanti, M Luisa Sousa (University of Lisbon, Portugal) (Remote)
• Cycling boom 2.0 – How grassroots movements triggered new local cycling policies (pdf) – Martin Lanzendorf (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany) (IP)
• Formulations, frames, and precedents: Unmaking history in public meetings – Karly Coleman (University of Alberta, Canada) (RE)

Session 3 – (Bi)cycles

Chair: Graeme Sherriff

• Dublin Bike Library: shared mobility for families (pdf) – Francesco Pilla, Pavlos Tafidis (University College Dublin) (IP)
• Evidence from E-Cargo Bike Demonstration Limerick (pdf) – Anne Cronin & Conor Buckley (Limerick Cycle Campaign) (IP)
• Exploring cycles as governable objects (pdf) – Daniel Valentini (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) (IP) – DISCUSSION
• Dublin Bike Library: shared mobility for families (pdf) – Francesco Pilla, Pavlos Tafidis (University College Dublin) (IP) – DISCUSSION

Session 4 – Cycling in Younger Age

Chair: Jane Hackett

• Safe Routes to School: A collaborative approach to advancing active travel for students (pdf) – Tracey Lydon (An Taisce EEU – Safe Routes to Schools Programme, Ireland) (IP)
• Gears or brakes? Active travel policy for children and young people in Scotland (pdf) – Caroline Brown (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh) (IP)
• Bicycle Heroes: Engaging Youth Voices in Promoting Active Mobility and Safe City Design (pdf) – Donna Cooney (Project Manager: BYCS Bicycle Heroes Dublin), Martina Mullin (Trinity College Dublin), Niamh Ni Cholmain (Dublin City Council) (IP)

Session 5 – Discourses

Chair: Gordon Waitt

• The “cycling city of Stockholm”: Productive, convenient, and connected mobility for all? (pdf) – Karin Edberg (Linköping University, Sweden) (IP)
• Cycleway Opposition in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown: Exploring the Role of Discourse (pdf) -Robert Egan & Brian Caulfield (Trinity College Dublin) (IP)
• Blame Games: The Assignation of Blame in Everyday Traffic Situations Involving Cyclists (pdf) – Nadia Williams (Technological University Dublin, Ireland) (IP)
• Contesting the fifteen-minute city: Dispatches from the “cycling city” of Oxford, UK (pdf) – Tim Jones (Oxford Brookes University, UK) (IP)

Session 6 – Systems

Chair: Brian Caulfield

• In a society which is resistant to change, what is the best way to deliver active travel infrastructure in a climate emergency? (pdf) – Michèle Costello & Róisín Ni Dhubhda (Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council) (IP)
• Cyclist.ie’s Experiences of Engaging with the Planning System on Cycling Schemes (pdf) – Damien Ó Tuama & Colm Ryder (Cyclist.ie) (IP)
• The Socio-Political Processes of Cycling Planning in Tehran as a Car-Centric Environment (pdf) – Mohammad Nazarpoor (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran) (RE)
• Cycle propensity modelling: An extreme cycling uptake study (pdf) – Billy Brazil, Karen Whitaker, Barry Colleary (National Transport Authority) Robert Egan, Brian Caulfield (Trinity College Dublin) (IP)

Session 7 – Solidarities

Chair: Nadia Williams

• “My reason to leave the bed”, a mixed methods evaluation of Muslim women’s cycle rides (pdf) – Esther Anaya-Boig (Independent), Sarah Javaid & Emma Pajarillaga (Cycle Sisters) (RE)
• Cycling against all odds: families everyday struggles for cycling in socially vulnerable and transport disadvantaged areas (pdf) – Dag Balkmar (Örebro Universit, Sweden) (RE)
• Whose streets? Our streets! Bicibús movement for cycling child-friendly cities (pdf) – Gemma Simón i Más, Anna Aretha Sach (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) (IP)
• Cycle Space Invaders – Gamification of social media as a tool to protect cycle infrastructructure (pdf) – Keith Phelan (vool.ie) (IP)

Session 8 – Spaces

Chair: Sarah Rock

• Build it and they will come? The multiple effects of a new infrastructure on cycling practice and experience (pdf) – Patrick Rérat & Aurélie Schmassmann (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) (RE)
• Proactive safety assessments for cycling infrastructure in Ireland: The potential role of the traffic conflict technique and surrogate measures of safety (pdf) – Kevin Gildea (Lund University, Sweden) (RE)
• Cycling infrastructures in the North American metropolis: the emerging geographies and differential strategies of infrastructural reconfiguration for cycling in Mexico City and Toronto – Thomas Van Laake (University of Manchester, UK) (IP)
• Developing Ireland’s Cycle Network – Lessons Learned – Hugh McCarthy (AECOM, Ireland) (IP)

Discussion 1

Chair: Kristina Moody (Dublin City Council)

Dublin City Council’s Active Travel Network: An exploratory discussion on maximising societal benefit – Christopher Manzira (Dublin City Council), Sabrina Dekker (Dublin City Council), John Legge (Consultant in Emergency Medicine), Naomi Oldenburg (National Disability Authority), Mary MacSweeney (Dublin City Council) (IP)

Discussion 2

Chair: Karen Lee (Solidaria, Australia)

Steady Pedal or Wild Ride? Including girls and women in everyday bike riding and cycle infrastructure planning: participatory methods and pathways to their wider adoption – Gemma Simón i Mas (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Ciara Norton (An Taisce EEU – Green-Schools Travel), Stephanie Stotz Simons (City of Berne) (Hybrid)

Book Launch: Prof. Peter Cox (University of Chester) – Cycling Activism: Bike Politics and Social Movements

Session 9 – Engagement

Chair: Robert Egan

• Meaningful public engagement? (pdf) – Conor Geraghty (Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council) (IP)
• Rocking the boat on still waters: experiences of activism within the Portuguese national strategy for cycling mobility (pdf) – Vera Lúcia Alves Pereira Diogo (Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal), Rui Igreja & Mário Alves (MUBi – Associação pela Mobilidade Urbana em Bicicleta) (IP)
• Strand Road Trial Cycle Track: The perspective of the Engineer, the Campaigner*, the Councillor and the Residents Association (pdf) – David Timoney (Dublin Cycling Campaign) (IP)
• A pedal powered approach to designing a strategic cycle network in smaller cities and towns (pdf) – Caitríona Corr (South East Technological University and Kilkenny County Council) (IP)

Session 10 – Integration

Chair: Keyvan Hosseini

• Exploring cycling accessibility and bicycle parking in older buildings in Vancouver, Canada (pdf) – Jeanette Steinmann, Donna Cumming, Brian Wilson (University of British Columbia, Canada), Tim Welsh, Chelsea Krahn, Tim Davidson, Gavin Davidson, Emily Bardutz (HUB Cycling) (IP)
• Co-creating Future Bicycle Urbanism with User Data from Living Labs with Autonomous Vehicles (pdf) – Alex Gaio (Trinity College Dublin) (IP)
• The policy implications of long-distance rail commuting experiences with a bike in Greater Sydney, Australia (pdf) – Gordon Waitt & Anna Lewis ( University of Wollongong, Australia) (IP)
• Potential benefits of the integrated planning of infrastructure maintenance and development: a bike infrastructure example (pdf) – David Zani (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich) (RE)

Session 11 – Data

Chair: Caitriona Corr

• Using Focus Groups for Public Engagement of Active Travel Schemes: The Deansgrange Road Cycle Route Example (pdf) – Giulia Grigoli (Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council) (IP)
• Walking and Cycling Index Report 2021 (pdf) – Finola O’Driscoll, Sarah McDonagh (National Transport Authority, Ireland) (IP)
• How can the public sector join forces with the academic institutions to achieve our common goals (pdf) – Paul Kennedy (Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council) (IP)
• Equitable Cycle Investment (pdf) – Irene McAleese (See.Sense) (IP)

Session 12 – Connections

Chair: Caroline Brown

• A paper on walking at a cycling conference? Analysing ‘all-inclusive’ Active Travel policy (pdf) – Nicholas Davies (Glasgow Caledonian University), Graeme Sherriff, Ian Cookson, & David Young (University of Salford, UK) (IP)
• Nature and cycling experiences: a literature review (pdf) – Mel Cairns (University of the West of England,UK) (IP)
• E-bike to the future: eco-efficiency and decision-making Implications of Dublin’s e-bike-sharing system (pdf) – Keyvan Hosseini, Tushar Pramod Choudhari, Margaret O’Mahony, Brian Caulfield (Trinity College Dublin) (IP)