The effect of rolling resistance on people’s willingness to cycle during wintertime
Mathis Dahl Fenre, Alex Klein-Paste · 2021
Summary
This Norwegian study examines how winter cycling surface conditions influence people's willingness to cycle, combining an online survey of 1,318 respondents with previously measured bicycle rolling resistance data. Willingness to cycle declined from 91.2% on surfaces with very low rolling resistance to 18.3% on surfaces with very high resistance. The findings suggest that perceived safety, surface unevenness and steerability are important barriers, rather than physical effort alone. Studded tyre users reported greater willingness to cycle in challenging conditions, while e-bike users showed no significant advantage. The study provides evidence for user-oriented winter maintenance standards and cycling infrastructure quality assessment.
- Topics
- Maintenance & OperationsBehaviour & Mobility Management
- Target audience
- PoliticiansPolicy makersMaintenance
- Mode
- Cycling
- Conditions
- WinterSnowySlushyWet
- Countries
- Norway(Nationwide survey; rolling resistance measurements from Trondheim)
- Language
- English
- Access
- Open access
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI
- 10.1186/s43065-021-00022-5
- Organisations
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- Bicycle rolling resistance under winter conditions · Research · 2021
- Dataset - Rolling resistance and willingness to cycle · Dataset · 2021
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