Promoting equality through bicycling education | ITE Journal

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While transportation professionals typically focus on road engineering, oft-overlooked elements are child and adult bicycling education programs. This paper focuses on such programs in the context of a complete and comprehensive approach to bicycle safety and an overarching goal of improving equality of access to public roads.

With the advent of such initiatives as Safe Routes to School and Complete Streets, the focus of transportation engineers is changing to include walking and bicycling. For example, a comprehensive eight-page illustrated report by Miller, et al. in the March 2013
ITE Journal described the present Dutch commitment to bicycling.

The numerous examples of bicycle-related infrastructure included an acknowledgment of the importance of bicycle education. Thus an essential complement to infrastructure is the need to promote soundly based bicycling education programs, some examples of which are discussed in this paper. They are presented in the context of the so-called five E’s, analogous to the four E’s of highway safety, to which has been added an overarching sixth E, Equality.

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Promoting equality through bicycling education | ITE Journal

MoBikeFed comment: This paper is written by two distinguished Missouri bicyclists, Martin Pion and Andy Cline. The paper is peer reviewed and was published in the January 2016 ITE Journal.