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sample evaluated descriptions of a town layout designed to promote cycling and walking ahead of driving. Participants were …
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Replacing car travel with walking and cycling lowers emissions, improves air quality and makes communities healthier …
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Replacing car travel with walking and cycling lowers emissions, improves air quality and makes communities healthier …
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This study provides an evaluation of the effectiveness of adult cycle training in delivering changes in cycling and …. Just under half of those responding to both surveys (47%) reported cycling more frequently after the training than … beforehand. Statistically significant increases in the mean number of days in the last week spent cycling for at least 30min, and …
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During the 2010/2011 school year, 1,145 questionnaires were completed by parents of children attending schools. The percentage of the children actively travelling to school is almost negligible. The highest percentages of children were regularly driven to school by car or school bus. Major...
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It is widely agreed that walking and cycling are good for individual and public health. There is a lack of evidence …
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Cycling confers health and environmental benefits, but few robust studies have evaluated large-scale programmes to … promote cycling. In England, recent years have seen substantial, town-wide cycling initiatives in six Cycling Demonstration … Towns (funded 2005–2011) and 12 Cycling Cities and Towns (funded 2008–2011). The initiatives involved mixtures of capital …
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In its recent special reports, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emphasizes the importance of behavior and lifestyle changes in mitigating climate change and calls for them to be better researched. Yet to date, climate-related behavior has been largely neglected or simplified...
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