Cycling as a Smart and Green Mode of Transport in Small Touristic Cities
Cycling as a Smart and Green Mode of Transport in Small Touristic Cities
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自行车作为小旅游城市的智能绿色交通方式
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2018
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G. Tsantopoulos
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P. Karanikola;T. Panagopoulos;Stilianos Tampakis;G. Tsantopoulos
作为一种交通方式，骑自行车是一种低成本、有益健康的出行方式，并为推广自行车的城市提供了环境效益。然而，直到最近，随着人们对气候变化、污染、拥堵和肥胖等问题的担忧，世界各地的城市才开始实施促进骑自行车的政策。然而，在希腊，自行车的使用是有限的。在希腊西北部的小旅游城市普雷韦萨，与其他希腊城市相比，自行车的使用非常突出，这里正在努力推广自行车运动。通过结构化问卷的帮助，居民对城市的自行车适宜性、现有的基础设施、适当的教育以及骑自行车的人和司机的行为进行了评估。超过一半的居民将自行车作为自己的交通工具，并表示自行车是城市中一种廉价的交通工具，并认为国家应该通过支持自行车购置补贴来鼓励自行车的使用。三分之二的居民认为他们城市的自行车设施足够，但对于不遵守交通规则的年轻骑自行车者来说不安全。相比之下，成年骑自行车的人更忠于规则，但表示司机不尊重他们在道路上的存在。这项研究提供了重要的信息，说明了在Preveza骑自行车作为一种交通方式的明显缺点，具有类似特征的城镇可能会对此感兴趣。
Cycling as a mode of transport is a low-cost, health-improving way to travel and offers environmental benefits for the cities that promote it. It is only recently, though, with concerns over climate change, pollution, congestion, and obesity among others, that have cities throughout the world have begun to implement policies to promote cycling. In Greece, however, the use of the bicycle is limited. In Preveza, a small touristic city in Northwestern Greece where the use of the bicycle is prominent when compared to other Greek cities, there are efforts to promote cycling. Through the aid of a structured questionnaire, the residents evaluated the suitability of the city for cycling, the existing infrastructure, appropriate education, and behavior of cyclists and drivers. More than half of the residents use bicycles as their transportation and stated that bicycles are an inexpensive way of transport in the city and had the opinion that the state should encourage bicycle use by supporting subvention in bicycle acquisition. Two-thirds of the residents evaluated the cycling facilities of their city as adequate, but unsafe for young cyclists who do not follow the rules of transport. Adult cyclists, in contrast, were more loyal to the code, but stated that drivers did not respect their presence on the roads. This research provides important information on the perceived shortcomings of cycling as a transport mode in Preveza that may be of interest to towns/cities with similar characteristics.