Cycling in Warsaw, Poland - Perceived enablers and barriers according to cyclists and non-cyclists.

ABSTRACT: Cycling in urban environments provides many benefits to people. However, planning of cycling infrastructures in large cities faces numerous challenges and requires better understanding of both the factors enabling cycling as well as barriers to it, determined by particular local context. While there is a growing body of research that tackle the bike transport related questions in Western Europe and the USA, there is relatively little research on that in Central Eastern Europe (CEE), in post-communist countries. In this study we used qualitative and quantitative methods to explore urban cyclists and non-cyclists opinions about the cycling, the perceived problems and obstacles, and perception of the on-going changes in bicycle transportation system in Warsaw, Poland. Although many people see

SUBMITTER: Iwinska K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6039858 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature