Livability Library: Bicycling

RELATED PAGES: 

• Free Guides About Making Streets Safer for Walking and Bicycling

• Getting Around: Bicycling

BICYCLE TYPES

• Different Bikes for Different Cyclists (2023)

• Bike-Sharing: Past, Present and Future (2018)

• Bike-Sharing Gets Older Adults Cycling (2018)

• Would an E-Bike Get You Cycling? (2018)

 

BICYCLING BENEFITS

• 10 Ways Bicycle-Friendly Streets Are Good for People Who Don't Ride Bicycles (2016)

• Why Public Transit, Bicycling and Our Feet Are Leading to a Brighter Future (2015)

 

BICYCLING FOR ALL AGES

• Making Bike Maps Easier on the Eyes (2023)

• AARP Community Challenge Bicycling Photo Album (2023)

• Take a Kid at Heart on a Bicycle Ride (2018)

• Le Tour de Ham: All Bicyclists Welcome. No Spandex Required (2018)

• How to Organize a Ciclovia or Open Streets Event (2015)

• Bicycles Aren't Just for Kids (2015)

• Video: A Successful Open Streets Program with Gil Penalosa (2015)

 

FREE PUBLICATIONS AND WORKSHEETS

• AARP Bike Audit Tool Kit and Worksheets (2023)

• Kit de AARP para auditorías sobre el uso de bicicletas (2023)

 

ROAD DESIGN AND SAFETY

• Video: Bike Audits Identify Safety Concerns (2024)

• Pop-Up Recipes for Bike Lanes (2019)

• Street-Level Solutions for Safer Cycling (2018)

• This Garden Grows Safe Cyclists (2018)

• How to Reduce Car-vs-Bicycle Crashes by 81 Percent (2017)

• Pop-Up Protected Bike Lanes (2016)

• Vision Zero Looks to Make Streets Safer (2015)

• 11 Vision Zero Solutions (2015)

 

RESEARCH AND REPORTS

• Data About Bicycling and Walking by Older Adults (2021)

• 50+ Cycling Survey (2020)

• Bicycling and Walking in the United States: 2018 Benchmarking Report

• Bicycling and Walking in the United States: 2016 Benchmarking Report

 

Q&A INTERVIEWS

• Leah Shahum of the Vision Zero Network (2016)

• Anthony Foxx, Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation, on Ped-Bike Safety (2014)