Combining the two recent questions about cycling cities and support for
cycling by decision makers, there are two pieces of work I'd recommend
people look at:
1) Adri Albert de la Bruheze and Frank Veraart studied what factors
affected the long term possibility of a city maintaining a critical mass
of cycle use over time, drawing on historical, spatial and cultural
development. This work was done in the '90s to support Dutch cycling
policy, and was based on a study of 9 European cities. I've just
googled Adri's name and found a paper at
http://www.velomondial.net/velomondiall2000/PDF/BRUHEZE.PDF but there
are other publications(one was presented at the International Cycling
History Conference in 1999), though some are only in Dutch.
2) I was involved in an EPSRC project some years back called DISTILLATE
(www.distillate.ac.uk), concerned with developing decision support tools
for sustainable transport and land use planning. One element of this
was about the organisational influences on policy and behavioural change
and the project had some insights into the reasons why support for
sustainable transport policy in local authorities was more or less
supported at a policy level, and the issues than can affect
implementation. I'm not well versed enough with the project's results
and reports to summarise them here, but if you look at the website, the
work concerned falls between Project A and Project D - the website is
fairly straightforward to navigate.
Paul
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