Environmental determinants of cycling: Not seeing the forest for the trees?
Environmental determinants of cycling: Not seeing the forest for the trees?
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骑行的环境决定因素：只见树木不见森林？
DOI：
10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2020.102704
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
6.1
通讯作者：
Samuel Nello
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作者：
Samuel Nello
近年来，在交通和城市规划领域寻求确定骑自行车的环境决定因素或相关因素的研究数量急剧增加。这一观点希望提出一个挑衅性的论点：即，虽然在这一领域的进一步研究可能会完善我们对某些问题的理论理解，但它不太可能提供任何与政策相关的新见解，即需要采取什么措施来提高城市自行车率。目前，世界上绝大多数城市在鼓励骑自行车方面所面临的困难并不是因为缺乏理论知识，而是从根本上讲是实际和政治性的。从实践的角度来看，我认为我们已经知道需要做些什么，以鼓励骑自行车在绝大多数城市环境。我认为，关于自行车与环境特征之间关系的研究似乎无休止地扩散，其问题在于，它有可能给人留下这样的印象，即在如何使一个城市更适合自行车的问题上存在一些根本的未解决的不确定性，而事实并非如此。与其关注自行车本身，我建议探索交通蒸发现象可能是研究人员推进城市自行车事业的更富有成效的方式。
In recent years, the volume of studies in the fields of transport and urban planning seeking to identify environmental determinants or correlates of cycling has expanded dramatically. This viewpoint wishes to put forward a provocative argument: namely, that while further research in this area might refine our theoretical understanding of certain issues, it is unlikely to deliver any fundamentally new policy-relevant insights as to what measures need to be taken in order to increase urban cycling rates. At present, the difficulties faced by the vast majority of cities across the world in encouraging cycling are not derived from a lack of theoretical knowledge, but are fundamentally practical and political in nature. From a practical perspective, I argue that we already knowenoughabout what needs to be done in order to encourage cycling in the vast majority of urban contexts. The problem with the seemingly endless proliferation of research on the relationship between cycling and environmental characteristics, I suggest, is that it risks giving the impression that there is some fundamental unresolved uncertainty about what is needed to make a city more cycling-friendly, when this is simply not the case. Instead of focusing on cycling itself, I suggest that exploring the phenomenon of traffic evaporation may be a more fruitful way for researchers to advance the cause of urban cycling.
影响因子：
6.8
作者：
Cervero, Robert;Denman, Steve;Jin, Ying
通讯作者：
Jin, Ying