IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wiw/wiwreg/region_11_2_480.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

A spatial and demographic analysis of cycling safety perceptions: A case study in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA

Author

Listed:
  • Matthew Haffner
  • Nathan Walker
  • Savanna Grunzke
  • Matthew St. Ores

Abstract

Bike-friendly cities offer scores of benefits to both individuals and society, but a lack of safety is a major barrier to ridership. Significant research has been devoted to studying demographic drivers of ridership and what makes individuals feel unsafe on a bicycle, but there is lack of research utilizing quantitative approaches on spatial perceptions of safety, particularly with respect to gender. This paper seeks to close that gap using a crowd sourcing approach to spatial data collection, statistical comparisons of cycling behavior by gender, and spatial analyses of mapped points. The authors find parity between women and men in terms of number of trips taken per week but find significant differences in the spatial extent of mapped responses. This paper adds to academic discussions on cycling safety and sheds light on specific locations that could benefit from infrastructure improvements.

Suggested Citation

  • Matthew Haffner & Nathan Walker & Savanna Grunzke & Matthew St. Ores, 2024. "A spatial and demographic analysis of cycling safety perceptions: A case study in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA," REGION, European Regional Science Association, vol. 11, pages 119-147.
  • Handle: RePEc:wiw:wiwreg:region_11_2_480
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://openjournals.wu.ac.at/ojs/index.php/region/article/view/480/version/611
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wiw:wiwreg:region_11_2_480. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Gunther Maier (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.ersa.org .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.