At ECF and similar organizations, we seek to apply empirical evidence to policy recommendations.
For the purposes of such work, I would welcome a journal focused on "urban cycling" or "Cycling for Transport & Logistics & fun too".
It could be a first stop reference for people like myself and professional colleagues.
It is also one that I could argue we could subscribe to, if that were needed. It's a lot harder to justify tight budget expenditure on one or a few such subscriptions in journals where cycling appears too infrequently.
I am sensitive to the arguments of Handy & Pucher - which I respect highly. Cycling is just PART of the urban solution.
Mine are restricted to our perspective of ease of access to high quality evidence that we can use to do our job.
On the academic side of things, If there were to be such a new journal, I would strongly encourage consideration of how to share "Negative results" in the field. How can such valid information be shared and considered as well?
For the list of "Significant researchers" in Cycling
I add a few who I have had personal contact and experience with recently:
Peter COX -
Carmen Hagemeister - Dresden
Dorothy Robinson - Australia
Ros Poulos <[log in to unmask]>
Ingrid J.M. Hendriksen, TNO Quality of Life , Leiden NL. <[log in to unmask]>
Bas De Geus - VUB, Brussels
And many more who are members of the ECF Scientists for Cycling network
The following names were proffered by a colleague at CTC who was in recent contact with them:
Dave Horton (UK) http://www.its.leeds.ac.uk/fileadmin/user_upload/UWCReportSept2011.pdf
David Ogilvie (UK) http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/research/research-areas/physical-activity-and-public-health/
Jason Henderson (US - San Francisco)
With collegial greetings from
Randy
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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 14:12:19 +0000
From: Simon P J Batterbury <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Inventory of senior cycling scholars>journal
While on the subject of senior scholars, it strikes me that what we actually need is an academic journal dedicated to the aspects of cycling policy that occupy this list. There is only one dedicated academic cycling journal in the world, www.jsc-journal.com/ that is all about cycling performance in sport (and very poorly cited) .
All the senior scholars publish their work in outlets ranging in focus from public health, to transport engineering, urban and regional planning, and sociology/geography/anthropology. Some of these get you kudos points in universities, others less so – and some writers rightly care more about diffusion of the material and open access than brownie points for ISI listings [the senior ones in particular!] . But I was looking for articles as a budding academic, some of the Transport journal foci and names are hardly appealing, and most are behind paywalls.
While many journals are willing to publish on urban cycling and its successes and failures , like WTP&P<http://www.eco-logica.co.uk/worldtransport.html> or ‘Transfers
Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies’, I have tried English, French and Spanish so far and can’t find anything that is a dedicated journal that deals exclusively with
- cultures of cycling
- history and geography of the mode
- social issues in general
- bike activism, back to bike trends
- bike campaigns and organisations
- alternative views on bike safety
- urban planning issues specific to bikes
- infrastructure sagas
- etc.
There are, of course, many magazines, on and off line, my favourite being AtoB.
I am not a senior scholar in this area but I know a great deal about journal publishing, running the Journal of Political Ecology<jpe.library.arizona.edu>. There is little future in attaching a new journal to a large commercial publisher unless the deal allows an Open Access journal with minimal author fees (under c$200).
Conventional ‘reader pays’ print/electronic journals are going the same way as cassette tapes and VHS, and scrambling to adapt – and there is a resistance to working with the larger publishers these days among many academics, because of their business models.
So, it would probably have to be a free-to-reader online deal, open access, and reliant on the goodwill of those involved (or able to tap into limited journal publishing funds, which exist in some universities and in Canada – see ACME: critical geography for example). Author fees would only be charged if really needed, to buy time or webspace for the editorial team.
Some smaller progressive publishing outfits could also work – there are several in anthropology (can’t remember), or Symposium in Oxford.
I produce our journal for no dollars, site held in perpetuity by a research university library: but do so partially in my spare time; this is not ideal.
Software - OJS (Open Journal Systems) is a good, free and evolving platform.-ScholarOneManuscript is to be avoided – annoying, expensive, automated, passwords, impersonal.
multimedia articles allowed of course.
Since urban cycling is the booming area, that could be the hook. eg “Journal of Urban Cycling” or “Journal of Cycling and Society”. Wide citation of articles would be needed early to establish reputation, otherwise academics won’t send in papers.
I’m in. Any takers? Of course if anybody takes this up and leaves me out, that would not be very polite!
Dr. Simon Batterbury | Associate Professor| Dept. of Resource Management and Geography | 221 Bouverie St (rm L2.33) | University of Melbourne, 3010 VIC, Australia.
+61 (0)3 8344 9319 | simonpjb @ unimelb.edu.au | http://www.simonbatterbury.net<http://www.simonbatterbury.net/> |
From: Cycling and Society Research Group discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Arnoud Lagendijk
Sent: Wednesday, 5 February 2014 8:23 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Inventory of senior cycling scholars
Dear list members,
For various purposes, we are seeking to develop a list of senior scholars with an established track record in cycling research. We would like to base this list on the shared knowledge of the bicycle research community. Hence, we call on all of you to suggest names of the most prominent bicycle researchers. We have started our list with one who can certainly not be missed:
Prof. John Pucher, Rutgers University
More names are welcome!
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 15:16:33 +0100
From: Tadej Brezina <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Inventory of senior cycling scholars
THIS sounds like a very good idea to me.
And I'd propose our institution of course! :-)
T+
> Isn't this list in some sense an organizing space for those who study
> bicycling from disciplines other than transportation research? As
> someone who did PhD research on bicycling in an academic department
> with no faculty who focused on transportation or bicycling, I think it
> would be useful to see a list of academic departments where this is a
> primary focus.
>
> --
> Adonia E. Lugo, Ph.D.
> Bicycle Anthropologist
> www.urbanadonia.com <http://www.urbanadonia.com>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Oddy, Nicholas <[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
> I agree that such a list should not mention 'senior'. It would be
> better to use 'significant'. I think that names are no good on
> their own, if the list is to have value it should be subdivided
> into areas of interest and disciplines.
>
> Nicholas Oddy
>
>
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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 16:22:52 +0200
From: Jennings Gail <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Inventory of senior cycling scholars>journal
This is something I've been thinking of for ages as well.
I published a quarterly called Mobility (southern Africa focused) for four years, and always included work regarding bicycle (and pedestrian) policy. It's difficult to fund, though, and the online growth (and the rise of aggregators) made it worse.
On 07 Feb 2014, at 4:12 PM, Simon P J Batterbury wrote:
> While on the subject of senior scholars, it strikes me that what we actually need is an academic journal dedicated to the aspects of cycling policy that occupy this list. There is only one dedicated academic cycling journal in the world, www.jsc-journal.com/ that is all about cycling performance in sport (and very poorly cited) .
> All the senior scholars publish their work in outlets ranging in focus from public health, to transport engineering, urban and regional planning, and sociology/geography/anthropology. Some of these get you kudos points in universities, others less so – and some writers rightly care more about diffusion of the material and open access than brownie points for ISI listings [the senior ones in particular!] . But I was looking for articles as a budding academic, some of the Transport journal foci and names are hardly appealing, and most are behind paywalls.
> While many journals are willing to publish on urban cycling and its successes and failures , likeWTP&P or ‘Transfers
> Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies’, I have tried English, French and Spanish so far and can’t find anything that is a dedicated journal that deals exclusively with
> - cultures of cycling
> - history and geography of the mode
> - social issues in general
> - bike activism, back to bike trends
> - bike campaigns and organisations
> - alternative views on bike safety
> - urban planning issues specific to bikes
> - infrastructure sagas
> - etc.
>
> There are, of course, many magazines, on and off line, my favourite being AtoB.
>
> I am not a senior scholar in this area but I know a great deal about journal publishing, running theJournal of Political Ecology. There is little future in attaching a new journal to a large commercial publisher unless the deal allows an Open Access journal with minimal author fees (under c$200).
> Conventional ‘reader pays’ print/electronic journals are going the same way as cassette tapes and VHS, and scrambling to adapt – and there is a resistance to working with the larger publishers these days among many academics, because of their business models.
> So, it would probably have to be a free-to-reader online deal, open access, and reliant on the goodwill of those involved (or able to tap into limited journal publishing funds, which exist in some universities and in Canada – see ACME: critical geography for example). Author fees would only be charged if really needed, to buy time or webspace for the editorial team.
> Some smaller progressive publishing outfits could also work – there are several in anthropology (can’t remember), or Symposium in Oxford.
> I produce our journal for no dollars, site held in perpetuity by a research university library: but do so partially in my spare time; this is not ideal.
> Software - OJS (Open Journal Systems) is a good, free and evolving platform.-ScholarOneManuscript is to be avoided – annoying, expensive, automated, passwords, impersonal.
> multimedia articles allowed of course.
>
> Since urban cycling is the booming area, that could be the hook. eg “Journal of Urban Cycling” or “Journal of Cycling and Society”. Wide citation of articles would be needed early to establish reputation, otherwise academics won’t send in papers.
>
> I’m in. Any takers? Of course if anybody takes this up and leaves me out, that would not be very polite!
>
>
> Dr. Simon Batterbury | Associate Professor| Dept. of Resource Management and Geography | 221 Bouverie St (rm L2.33) | University of Melbourne, 3010 VIC, Australia.
> +61 (0)3 8344 9319 | simonpjb @ unimelb.edu.au | http://www.simonbatterbury.net |
>
>
>
>
> From: Cycling and Society Research Group discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Arnoud Lagendijk
> Sent: Wednesday, 5 February 2014 8:23 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Inventory of senior cycling scholars
>
> Dear list members,
>
> For various purposes, we are seeking to develop a list of senior scholars with an established track record in cycling research. We would like to base this list on the shared knowledge of the bicycle research community. Hence, we call on all of you to suggest names of the most prominent bicycle researchers. We have started our list with one who can certainly not be missed:
> Prof. John Pucher, Rutgers University
>
> More names are welcome!
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 15:27:42 +0000
From: Graham Berridge <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Inventory of senior cycling scholars>journal
Simon - A journal sounds like a great idea. Happy to be involved in some way.
Also, as regards this list, there is output on cycling in the context of tourism, events, leisure that doesn't seem to be picked up on, not everything or everybody is looking at mobility, planning policy etc
Graham
Graham Berridge MA; PG Cert Research; BA
SL in Events
National Teaching Fellow
University of Westminster
Room M137
35 Marylebone Road Campus
London NW1 5LS
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From: Cycling and Society Research Group discussion list <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Jennings Gail <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 2:22 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Inventory of senior cycling scholars>journal
This is something I've been thinking of for ages as well.
I published a quarterly called Mobility (southern Africa focused) for four years, and always included work regarding bicycle (and pedestrian) policy. It's difficult to fund, though, and the online growth (and the rise of aggregators) made it worse.
On 07 Feb 2014, at 4:12 PM, Simon P J Batterbury wrote:
While on the subject of senior scholars, it strikes me that what we actually need is an academic journal dedicated to the aspects of cycling policy that occupy this list. There is only one dedicated academic cycling journal in the world, www.jsc-journal.com/<http://www.jsc-journal.com/> that is all about cycling performance in sport (and very poorly cited) .
All the senior scholars publish their work in outlets ranging in focus from public health, to transport engineering, urban and regional planning, and sociology/geography/anthropology. Some of these get you kudos points in universities, others less so – and some writers rightly care more about diffusion of the material and open access than brownie points for ISI listings [the senior ones in particular!] . But I was looking for articles as a budding academic, some of the Transport journal foci and names are hardly appealing, and most are behind paywalls.
While many journals are willing to publish on urban cycling and its successes and failures , likeWTP&P<http://www.eco-logica.co.uk/worldtransport.html> or ‘Transfers
Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies’, I have tried English, French and Spanish so far and can’t find anything that is a dedicated journal that deals exclusively with
- cultures of cycling
- history and geography of the mode
- social issues in general
- bike activism, back to bike trends
- bike campaigns and organisations
- alternative views on bike safety
- urban planning issues specific to bikes
- infrastructure sagas
- etc.
There are, of course, many magazines, on and off line, my favourite being AtoB.
I am not a senior scholar in this area but I know a great deal about journal publishing, running theJournal of Political Ecology<jpe.library.arizona.edu>. There is little future in attaching a new journal to a large commercial publisher unless the deal allows an Open Access journal with minimal author fees (under c$200).
Conventional ‘reader pays’ print/electronic journals are going the same way as cassette tapes and VHS, and scrambling to adapt – and there is a resistance to working with the larger publishers these days among many academics, because of their business models.
So, it would probably have to be a free-to-reader online deal, open access, and reliant on the goodwill of those involved (or able to tap into limited journal publishing funds, which exist in some universities and in Canada – see ACME: critical geography for example). Author fees would only be charged if really needed, to buy time or webspace for the editorial team.
Some smaller progressive publishing outfits could also work – there are several in anthropology (can’t remember), or Symposium in Oxford.
I produce our journal for no dollars, site held in perpetuity by a research university library: but do so partially in my spare time; this is not ideal.
Software - OJS (Open Journal Systems) is a good, free and evolving platform.-ScholarOneManuscript is to be avoided – annoying, expensive, automated, passwords, impersonal.
multimedia articles allowed of course.
Since urban cycling is the booming area, that could be the hook. eg “Journal of Urban Cycling” or “Journal of Cycling and Society”. Wide citation of articles would be needed early to establish reputation, otherwise academics won’t send in papers.
I’m in. Any takers? Of course if anybody takes this up and leaves me out, that would not be very polite!
Dr. Simon Batterbury | Associate Professor| Dept. of Resource Management and Geography | 221 Bouverie St (rm L2.33) | University of Melbourne, 3010 VIC, Australia.
+61 (0)3 8344 9319 | simonpjb @ unimelb.edu.au<http://unimelb.edu.au> | http://www.simonbatterbury.net<http://www.simonbatterbury.net/> |
From: Cycling and Society Research Group discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Arnoud Lagendijk
Sent: Wednesday, 5 February 2014 8:23 AM
To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Inventory of senior cycling scholars
Dear list members,
For various purposes, we are seeking to develop a list of senior scholars with an established track record in cycling research. We would like to base this list on the shared knowledge of the bicycle research community. Hence, we call on all of you to suggest names of the most prominent bicycle researchers. We have started our list with one who can certainly not be missed:
Prof. John Pucher, Rutgers University
More names are welcome!
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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 16:32:09 +0100
From: Tadej Brezina <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Inventory of senior cycling scholars>journal
Wouldn't Stuart Clement's Cycling Research International be a possible
starting point for a regular scientific cycling journal?
T+
>
> Simon - A journal sounds like a great idea. Happy to be involved in
> some way.
>
>
> Also, as regards this list, there is output on cycling in the context
> of tourism, events, leisure that doesn't seem to be picked up on, not
> everything or everybody is looking at mobility, planning policy etc
>
>
> Graham
>
>
>
> /Graham Berridge MA; PG Cert Research; BA /
> /SL in Events/
> /National Teaching Fellow/
> /University of Westminster/
> /Room M137/
> /35 Marylebone Road Campus/
> /London NW1 5LS/
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Cycling and Society Research Group discussion list
> <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Jennings Gail
> <[log in to unmask]>
> *Sent:* Friday, February 07, 2014 2:22 PM
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* Re: Inventory of senior cycling scholars>journal
> This is something I've been thinking of for ages as well.
> I published a quarterly called Mobility (southern Africa focused) for
> four years, and always included work regarding bicycle (and
> pedestrian) policy. It's difficult to fund, though, and the online
> growth (and the rise of aggregators) made it worse.
>
>
> On 07 Feb 2014, at 4:12 PM, Simon P J Batterbury wrote:
>
>> While on the subject of senior scholars, it strikes me that what we
>> actually need is an academic journal dedicated to the aspects of
>> cycling policy that occupy this list. There is only one dedicated
>> academic cycling journal in the world,www.jsc-journal.com/
>> <http://www.jsc-journal.com/%FD>that is all about cycling performance
>> in sport (and very poorly cited) .
>> All the senior scholars publish their work in outlets ranging in
>> focus from public health, to transport engineering, urban and
>> regional planning, and sociology/geography/anthropology. Some of
>> these get you kudos points in universities, others less so – and some
>> writers rightly care more about diffusion of the material and open
>> access than brownie points for ISI listings [the senior ones in
>> particular!] . But I was looking for articles as a budding academic,
>> some of the Transport journal foci and names are hardly appealing,
>> and most are behind paywalls.
>> While many journals are willing to publish on urban cycling and its
>> successes and failures , likeWTP&P
>> <http://www.eco-logica.co.uk/worldtransport.html>or ‘Transfers
>> Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies’, I have tried English,
>> French and Spanish so far and can’t find anything that is a
>> dedicated journal that deals exclusively with
>> -cultures of cycling
>> -history and geography of the mode
>> -social issues in general
>> -bike activism, back to bike trends
>> -bike campaigns and organisations
>> -alternative views on bike safety
>> -urban planning issues specific to bikes
>> -infrastructure sagas
>> -etc.
>> There are, of course, many/magazines/, on and off line, my favourite
>> being AtoB.
>> I am not a senior scholar in this area but I know a great deal about
>> journal publishing, running theJournal of Political Ecology
>> <jpe.library.arizona.edu>. There is little future in attaching a new
>> journal to a large commercial publisher unless the deal allows an
>> Open Access journal with minimal author fees (under c$200).
>> Conventional ‘reader pays’ print/electronic journals are going the
>> same way as cassette tapes and VHS, and scrambling to adapt – and
>> there is a resistance to working with the larger publishers these
>> days among many academics, because of their business models.
>> So, it would probably have to be a free-to-reader online deal, open
>> access, and reliant on the goodwill of those involved (or able to tap
>> into limited journal publishing funds, which exist in some
>> universities and in Canada – see ACME: critical geography for
>> example). Author fees would only be charged if really needed, to buy
>> time or webspace for the editorial team.
>> Some smaller progressive publishing outfits could also work – there
>> are several in anthropology (can’t remember), or Symposium in Oxford.
>> I produce our journal for no dollars, site held in perpetuity by a
>> research university library: but do so partially in my spare time;
>> this is not ideal.
>> Software - OJS (Open Journal Systems) is a good, free and evolving
>> platform.-ScholarOneManuscript is to be avoided – annoying,
>> expensive, automated, passwords, impersonal.
>> multimedia articles allowed of course.
>> Since urban cycling is the booming area, that could be the hook. eg
>> “Journal of Urban Cycling” or “Journal of Cycling and Society”. Wide
>> citation of articles would be needed early to establish reputation,
>> otherwise academics won’t send in papers.
>> I’m in. Any takers? Of course if anybody takes this up and leaves me
>> out, that would not be very polite!
>> Dr. Simon Batterbury | Associate Professor|Dept. of Resource
>> Management and Geography|221 Bouverie St (rm L2.33)|University of
>> Melbourne, 3010 VIC, Australia.
>> +61 (0)3 8344 9319 |simonpjb @unimelb.edu.au
>> <http://unimelb.edu.au>|http://www.simonbatterbury.net
>> <http://www.simonbatterbury.net/>|
>> *From:*Cycling and Society Research Group discussion list
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]*On Behalf Of*Arnoud Lagendijk
>> *Sent:*Wednesday, 5 February 2014 8:23 AM
>> *To:*[log in to unmask]
>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>> *Subject:*Inventory of senior cycling scholars
>> Dear list members,
>> For various purposes, we are seeking to develop a list of senior
>> scholars with an established track record in cycling research. We
>> would like to base this list on the shared knowledge of the bicycle
>> research community. Hence, we call on all of you to suggest names of
>> the most prominent bicycle researchers. We have started our list with
>> one who can certainly not be missed:
>> Prof. John Pucher, Rutgers University
>> More names are welcome!
>>
>
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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 09:04:54 -0700
From: Karly Coleman <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Inventory of senior cycling scholars>journal
That would be fascinating, the non-mobility, or tangentially mobility oriented research on bicycles. I'd put my name on the list of folks in that category.
ta k
Handing over a bank-note is enough to make the bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession - Jean Paul Sartre
On 2014-02-07, at 8:27 AM, Graham Berridge wrote:
> Simon - A journal sounds like a great idea. Happy to be involved in some way.
>
> Also, as regards this list, there is output on cycling in the context of tourism, events, leisure that doesn't seem to be picked up on, not everything or everybody is looking at mobility, planning policy etc
>
> Graham
>
>
> Graham Berridge MA; PG Cert Research; BA
> SL in Events
> National Teaching Fellow
> University of Westminster
> Room M137
> 35 Marylebone Road Campus
> London NW1 5LS
>
>
> From: Cycling and Society Research Group discussion list <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Jennings Gail <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 2:22 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Inventory of senior cycling scholars>journal
>
> This is something I've been thinking of for ages as well.
> I published a quarterly called Mobility (southern Africa focused) for four years, and always included work regarding bicycle (and pedestrian) policy. It's difficult to fund, though, and the online growth (and the rise of aggregators) made it worse.
>
>
> On 07 Feb 2014, at 4:12 PM, Simon P J Batterbury wrote:
>
>> While on the subject of senior scholars, it strikes me that what we actually need is an academic journal dedicated to the aspects of cycling policy that occupy this list. There is only one dedicated academic cycling journal in the world, www.jsc-journal.com/ that is all about cycling performance in sport (and very poorly cited) .
>> All the senior scholars publish their work in outlets ranging in focus from public health, to transport engineering, urban and regional planning, and sociology/geography/anthropology. Some of these get you kudos points in universities, others less so – and some writers rightly care more about diffusion of the material and open access than brownie points for ISI listings [the senior ones in particular!] . But I was looking for articles as a budding academic, some of the Transport journal foci and names are hardly appealing, and most are behind paywalls.
>> While many journals are willing to publish on urban cycling and its successes and failures , likeWTP&P or ‘Transfers
>> Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies’, I have tried English, French and Spanish so far and can’t find anything that is a dedicated journal that deals exclusively with
>> - cultures of cycling
>> - history and geography of the mode
>> - social issues in general
>> - bike activism, back to bike trends
>> - bike campaigns and organisations
>> - alternative views on bike safety
>> - urban planning issues specific to bikes
>> - infrastructure sagas
>> - etc.
>>
>> There are, of course, many magazines, on and off line, my favourite being AtoB.
>>
>> I am not a senior scholar in this area but I know a great deal about journal publishing, running theJournal of Political Ecology. There is little future in attaching a new journal to a large commercial publisher unless the deal allows an Open Access journal with minimal author fees (under c$200).
>> Conventional ‘reader pays’ print/electronic journals are going the same way as cassette tapes and VHS, and scrambling to adapt – and there is a resistance to working with the larger publishers these days among many academics, because of their business models.
>> So, it would probably have to be a free-to-reader online deal, open access, and reliant on the goodwill of those involved (or able to tap into limited journal publishing funds, which exist in some universities and in Canada – see ACME: critical geography for example). Author fees would only be charged if really needed, to buy time or webspace for the editorial team.
>> Some smaller progressive publishing outfits could also work – there are several in anthropology (can’t remember), or Symposium in Oxford.
>> I produce our journal for no dollars, site held in perpetuity by a research university library: but do so partially in my spare time; this is not ideal.
>> Software - OJS (Open Journal Systems) is a good, free and evolving platform.-ScholarOneManuscript is to be avoided – annoying, expensive, automated, passwords, impersonal.
>> multimedia articles allowed of course.
>>
>> Since urban cycling is the booming area, that could be the hook. eg “Journal of Urban Cycling” or “Journal of Cycling and Society”. Wide citation of articles would be needed early to establish reputation, otherwise academics won’t send in papers.
>>
>> I’m in. Any takers? Of course if anybody takes this up and leaves me out, that would not be very polite!
>>
>>
>> Dr. Simon Batterbury | Associate Professor| Dept. of Resource Management and Geography | 221 Bouverie St (rm L2.33) | University of Melbourne, 3010 VIC, Australia.
>> +61 (0)3 8344 9319 | simonpjb @ unimelb.edu.au | http://www.simonbatterbury.net |
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Cycling and Society Research Group discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Arnoud Lagendijk
>> Sent: Wednesday, 5 February 2014 8:23 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Inventory of senior cycling scholars
>>
>> Dear list members,
>>
>> For various purposes, we are seeking to develop a list of senior scholars with an established track record in cycling research. We would like to base this list on the shared knowledge of the bicycle research community. Hence, we call on all of you to suggest names of the most prominent bicycle researchers. We have started our list with one who can certainly not be missed:
>> Prof. John Pucher, Rutgers University
>>
>> More names are welcome!
>
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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 11:10:05 -0500
From: Adonia Lugo <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Inventory of senior cycling scholars>journal
I'm pretty sure a Cycling and Society journal would see a lot of
submissions from the Bicicultures crew! I'd be happy to help out in anyway.
--
Adonia E. Lugo, Ph.D.
Bicycle Anthropologist
www.urbanadonia.com
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Tadej Brezina <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Wouldn't Stuart Clement's Cycling Research International be a possible
> starting point for a regular scientific cycling journal?
> T+
>
> Simon - A journal sounds like a great idea. Happy to be involved in some
> way.
>
>
> Also, as regards this list, there is output on cycling in the context of
> tourism, events, leisure that doesn't seem to be picked up on, not
> everything or everybody is looking at mobility, planning policy etc
>
>
> Graham
>
>
>
> *Graham Berridge MA; PG Cert Research; BA *
> *SL in Events*
> *National Teaching Fellow*
> *University of Westminster*
> *Room M137*
> *35 Marylebone Road Campus*
> *London NW1 5LS*
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Cycling and Society Research Group discussion list
> <[log in to unmask]> <[log in to unmask]>on behalf of Jennings Gail
> <[log in to unmask]> <[log in to unmask]>
> *Sent:* Friday, February 07, 2014 2:22 PM
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* Re: Inventory of senior cycling scholars>journal
>
> This is something I've been thinking of for ages as well.
> I published a quarterly called Mobility (southern Africa focused) for four
> years, and always included work regarding bicycle (and pedestrian) policy.
> It's difficult to fund, though, and the online growth (and the rise of
> aggregators) made it worse.
>
>
> On 07 Feb 2014, at 4:12 PM, Simon P J Batterbury wrote:
>
> While on the subject of senior scholars, it strikes me that what we
> actually need is an academic journal dedicated to the aspects of cycling
> policy that occupy this list. There is only one dedicated academic cycling
> journal in the world, www.jsc-journal.com/<http://www.jsc-journal.com/%FD>
> that is all about cycling performance in sport (and very poorly cited) .
> All the senior scholars publish their work in outlets ranging in focus
> from public health, to transport engineering, urban and regional planning,
> and sociology/geography/anthropology. Some of these get you kudos points in
> universities, others less so - and some writers rightly care more about
> diffusion of the material and open access than brownie points for ISI
> listings [the senior ones in particular!] . But I was looking for articles
> as a budding academic, some of the Transport journal foci and names are
> hardly appealing, and most are behind paywalls.
> While many journals are willing to publish on urban cycling and its
> successes and failures , likeWTP&P<http://www.eco-logica.co.uk/worldtransport.html>
> or 'Transfers
> Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies', I have tried English,
> French and Spanish so far and can't find anything that is a dedicated
> journal that deals exclusively with
> - cultures of cycling
> - history and geography of the mode
> - social issues in general
> - bike activism, back to bike trends
> - bike campaigns and organisations
> - alternative views on bike safety
> - urban planning issues specific to bikes
> - infrastructure sagas
> - etc.
>
> There are, of course, many *magazines*, on and off line, my favourite
> being AtoB.
>
> I am not a senior scholar in this area but I know a great deal about
> journal publishing, running theJournal of Political Ecology<http://jpe.library.arizona.edu>.
> There is little future in attaching a new journal to a large commercial
> publisher unless the deal allows an Open Access journal with minimal
> author fees (under c$200).
> Conventional 'reader pays' print/electronic journals are going the same
> way as cassette tapes and VHS, and scrambling to adapt - and there is a
> resistance to working with the larger publishers these days among many
> academics, because of their business models.
> So, it would probably have to be a free-to-reader online deal, open
> access, and reliant on the goodwill of those involved (or able to tap into
> limited journal publishing funds, which exist in some universities and in
> Canada - see ACME: critical geography for example). Author fees would only
> be charged if really needed, to buy time or webspace for the editorial team.
> Some smaller progressive publishing outfits could also work - there are
> several in anthropology (can't remember), or Symposium in Oxford.
> I produce our journal for no dollars, site held in perpetuity by a
> research university library: but do so partially in my spare time; this is
> not ideal.
> Software - OJS (Open Journal Systems) is a good, free and evolving
> platform.-ScholarOneManuscript is to be avoided - annoying, expensive,
> automated, passwords, impersonal.
> multimedia articles allowed of course.
>
> Since urban cycling is the booming area, that could be the hook. eg
> "Journal of Urban Cycling" or "Journal of Cycling and Society". Wide
> citation of articles would be needed early to establish reputation,
> otherwise academics won't send in papers.
>
> I'm in. Any takers? Of course if anybody takes this up and leaves me
> out, that would not be very polite!
>
>
> Dr. Simon Batterbury | Associate Professor| Dept. of Resource Management
> and Geography | 221 Bouverie St (rm L2.33) | University of Melbourne,
> 3010 VIC, Australia.
> +61 (0)3 8344 9319 | simonpjb @ unimelb.edu.au |
> http://www.simonbatterbury.net |
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Cycling and Society Research Group discussion list [
> mailto:[log in to unmask]<[log in to unmask]>
> ] *On Behalf Of *Arnoud Lagendijk
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 5 February 2014 8:23 AM
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* Inventory of senior cycling scholars
>
> Dear list members,
>
> For various purposes, we are seeking to develop a list of senior scholars
> with an established track record in cycling research. We would like to base
> this list on the shared knowledge of the bicycle research community. Hence,
> we call on all of you to suggest names of the most prominent bicycle
> researchers. We have started our list with one who can certainly not be
> missed:
> Prof. John Pucher, Rutgers University
>
> More names are welcome!
>
>
> The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by
> guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England.
> Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW.
>
> This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have
> received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and
> its attachments from your system.
>
>
>
> --
> WED, THU & FRI at the University.
> --
> Tadej Brezina, Univ.Ass. Dipl.-Ing.
> Research Center of Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering
> Institute of Transportation
> Vienna University of Technology
> Gußhausstraße 30/230-1 | A-1040 Wien
> [log in to unmask]
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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 18:33:26 +0000
From: "Handy, Susan" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Inventory of senior cycling scholars>journal
Another perspective: While I would immensely enjoy such a journal myself, I worry that researchers and other readers who are not focused on cycling would never see the wonderful work being done on this topic. I think it is important for cycling research to appear in the mainstream journals as a way to both legitimize and more widely disseminate it. The transportation journals have been very good about publishing papers on cycling in recent years, and I think this has helped the field to accept cycling as a legitimate mode of transportation, one that is worthy of academic study. Maybe we'll soon be at the point, with respect to quantity and quality of research, of being able to populate both the mainstream journals and a cycling-specific journal, but I'm not sure we're there yet. I am also worried about the general proliferation of new journals these days, if only because it has led to an exponential increase in the review requests I get.
Three new journals that are a great fit for transport cycling research:
Journal of Transport & Health
Travel Behaviour & Society
International Journal of Sustainable Transportation (not so new now)
My two cents.
Susan
From: Cycling and Society Research Group discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Adonia Lugo
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 8:10 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Inventory of senior cycling scholars>journal
I'm pretty sure a Cycling and Society journal would see a lot of submissions from the Bicicultures crew! I'd be happy to help out in anyway.
--
Adonia E. Lugo, Ph.D.
Bicycle Anthropologist
www.urbanadonia.com<http://www.urbanadonia.com>
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Tadej Brezina <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Wouldn't Stuart Clement's Cycling Research International be a possible starting point for a regular scientific cycling journal?
T+
Simon - A journal sounds like a great idea. Happy to be involved in some way.
Also, as regards this list, there is output on cycling in the context of tourism, events, leisure that doesn't seem to be picked up on, not everything or everybody is looking at mobility, planning policy etc
Graham
Graham Berridge MA; PG Cert Research; BA
SL in Events
National Teaching Fellow
University of Westminster
Room M137
35 Marylebone Road Campus
London NW1 5LS
________________________________
From: Cycling and Society Research Group discussion list <[log in to unmask]><mailto:[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Jennings Gail <[log in to unmask]><mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 2:22 PM
To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Inventory of senior cycling scholars>journal
This is something I've been thinking of for ages as well.
I published a quarterly called Mobility (southern Africa focused) for four years, and always included work regarding bicycle (and pedestrian) policy. It's difficult to fund, though, and the online growth (and the rise of aggregators) made it worse.
On 07 Feb 2014, at 4:12 PM, Simon P J Batterbury wrote:
While on the subject of senior scholars, it strikes me that what we actually need is an academic journal dedicated to the aspects of cycling policy that occupy this list. There is only one dedicated academic cycling journal in the world, www.jsc-journal.com/<http://www.jsc-journal.com/%FD> that is all about cycling performance in sport (and very poorly cited) .
All the senior scholars publish their work in outlets ranging in focus from public health, to transport engineering, urban and regional planning, and sociology/geography/anthropology. Some of these get you kudos points in universities, others less so - and some writers rightly care more about diffusion of the material and open access than brownie points for ISI listings [the senior ones in particular!] . But I was looking for articles as a budding academic, some of the Transport journal foci and names are hardly appealing, and most are behind paywalls.
While many journals are willing to publish on urban cycling and its successes and failures , likeWTP&P<http://www.eco-logica.co.uk/worldtransport.html> or 'Transfers
Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies', I have tried English, French and Spanish so far and can't find anything that is a dedicated journal that deals exclusively with
- cultures of cycling
- history and geography of the mode
- social issues in general
- bike activism, back to bike trends
- bike campaigns and organisations
- alternative views on bike safety
- urban planning issues specific to bikes
- infrastructure sagas
- etc.
There are, of course, many magazines, on and off line, my favourite being AtoB.
I am not a senior scholar in this area but I know a great deal about journal publishing, running theJournal of Political Ecology<http://jpe.library.arizona.edu>. There is little future in attaching a new journal to a large commercial publisher unless the deal allows an Open Access journal with minimal author fees (under c$200).
Conventional 'reader pays' print/electronic journals are going the same way as cassette tapes and VHS, and scrambling to adapt - and there is a resistance to working with the larger publishers these days among many academics, because of their business models.
So, it would probably have to be a free-to-reader online deal, open access, and reliant on the goodwill of those involved (or able to tap into limited journal publishing funds, which exist in some universities and in Canada - see ACME: critical geography for example). Author fees would only be charged if really needed, to buy time or webspace for the editorial team.
Some smaller progressive publishing outfits could also work - there are several in anthropology (can't remember), or Symposium in Oxford.
I produce our journal for no dollars, site held in perpetuity by a research university library: but do so partially in my spare time; this is not ideal.
Software - OJS (Open Journal Systems) is a good, free and evolving platform.-ScholarOneManuscript is to be avoided - annoying, expensive, automated, passwords, impersonal.
multimedia articles allowed of course.
Since urban cycling is the booming area, that could be the hook. eg "Journal of Urban Cycling" or "Journal of Cycling and Society". Wide citation of articles would be needed early to establish reputation, otherwise academics won't send in papers.
I'm in. Any takers? Of course if anybody takes this up and leaves me out, that would not be very polite!
Dr. Simon Batterbury | Associate Professor| Dept. of Resource Management and Geography | 221 Bouverie St (rm L2.33) | University of Melbourne, 3010 VIC, Australia.
+61 (0)3 8344 9319 | simonpjb @ unimelb.edu.au<http://unimelb.edu.au> | http://www.simonbatterbury.net<http://www.simonbatterbury.net/> |
From: Cycling and Society Research Group discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Arnoud Lagendijk
Sent: Wednesday, 5 February 2014 8:23 AM
To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Inventory of senior cycling scholars
Dear list members,
For various purposes, we are seeking to develop a list of senior scholars with an established track record in cycling research. We would like to base this list on the shared knowledge of the bicycle research community. Hence, we call on all of you to suggest names of the most prominent bicycle researchers. We have started our list with one who can certainly not be missed:
Prof. John Pucher, Rutgers University
More names are welcome!
The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW.
This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system.
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WED, THU & FRI at the University.
--
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Research Center of Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering
Institute of Transportation
Vienna University of Technology
Gußhausstraße 30/230-1 | A-1040 Wien
--
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------------------------------
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 21:26:50 +0000
From: Dave Holladay <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Searching for e-copy of similar. Stadtvehrkehr im Wandlung
When at Sustrans in the mid 1980's we had an excellent booklet from the
German Government basically highlighting the changes that could and were
being made in urban traffic.
It had some wonderful illustrations which were adapted for a number of
Sustrans reports - the Mr A who drives directly to work vs Mr B who
cycles with his child to school, nips in the the shop for a paper and
catches the train, where he reads the paper, taking roughly the same
time but being so much more productive with it. Or the dynamic envelope
reduction with a 20 Kph speed reduction, that allows you to make traffic
lanes narrower and fit in an extra lane - for bikes of course.
I was reminded of it by this Streetfilms blog showing the opportunity
some of us will have to go out and get photos of #snecking on the
streets when there is a fall of snow. Basically it is taking pictures
of the piles of snow pushed aside, or just not cleared by the passage of
motor vehicles, which show just how little road space is actually needed
for moving traffic, and where footways can be extended to promote slower
cornering speeds, and space can be found for cycle lanes etc. From my
own reckoning, in many urban areas less than 50% of the road surfacing
is actually needed for moving traffic, the rest is filled up with parked
vehicles which sit idle for around 95% of the time.
In the UK by statute the local government areas are only obliged to
provide and repair roads for the movement of traffic, and here at a
stroke is the opportunity to slash the cost of road repairs, by only
repairing the bits used for moving traffic. Better still, as the land on
which the road sits usually belongs to the title of the frontaging
property, if it is no longer required for the purpose of being a road it
can be stopped up and returned to the owner of the land on which the
road sits. Imagine the benefit of a bigger front garden, or perhaps a
small plot of greenery, where once the view was someone else's car, or
you might turn a small profit from actually charging for parking on your
land (one of the reasons that UK local councils are prohibited from
making money from parking charges, is that in many cases they don't own
the land under the road)
So closing again with that request - an e-copy of Stadtvehrkehr im Wandlung
Dave Holladay
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 21:36:09 +0000
From: Anne Jensen <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Inventory of senior cycling scholars>journal
So happy that cycling research is coming together across disciplines – and a journal is a great idea, and, by now, probably timely, and I would be happy to be involved – here from Denmark I would also recommend Jonas Larsen and Thomas Sick, not to forget Jennifer Bonham
All the best, Anne
Anne Jensen, senior researcher, Aarhus University
From: Cycling and Society Research Group discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Simon P J Batterbury
Sent: 7. februar 2014 15:12
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Inventory of senior cycling scholars>journal
While on the subject of senior scholars, it strikes me that what we actually need is an academic journal dedicated to the aspects of cycling policy that occupy this list. There is only one dedicated academic cycling journal in the world, www.jsc-journal.com/ that is all about cycling performance in sport (and very poorly cited) .
All the senior scholars publish their work in outlets ranging in focus from public health, to transport engineering, urban and regional planning, and sociology/geography/anthropology. Some of these get you kudos points in universities, others less so – and some writers rightly care more about diffusion of the material and open access than brownie points for ISI listings [the senior ones in particular!] . But I was looking for articles as a budding academic, some of the Transport journal foci and names are hardly appealing, and most are behind paywalls.
While many journals are willing to publish on urban cycling and its successes and failures , like WTP&P<http://www.eco-logica.co.uk/worldtransport.html> or ‘Transfers
Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies’, I have tried English, French and Spanish so far and can’t find anything that is a dedicated journal that deals exclusively with
- cultures of cycling
- history and geography of the mode
- social issues in general
- bike activism, back to bike trends
- bike campaigns and organisations
- alternative views on bike safety
- urban planning issues specific to bikes
- infrastructure sagas
- etc.
There are, of course, many magazines, on and off line, my favourite being AtoB.
I am not a senior scholar in this area but I know a great deal about journal publishing, running the Journal of Political Ecology<jpe.library.arizona.edu>. There is little future in attaching a new journal to a large commercial publisher unless the deal allows an Open Access journal with minimal author fees (under c$200).
Conventional ‘reader pays’ print/electronic journals are going the same way as cassette tapes and VHS, and scrambling to adapt – and there is a resistance to working with the larger publishers these days among many academics, because of their business models.
So, it would probably have to be a free-to-reader online deal, open access, and reliant on the goodwill of those involved (or able to tap into limited journal publishing funds, which exist in some universities and in Canada – see ACME: critical geography for example). Author fees would only be charged if really needed, to buy time or webspace for the editorial team.
Some smaller progressive publishing outfits could also work – there are several in anthropology (can’t remember), or Symposium in Oxford.
I produce our journal for no dollars, site held in perpetuity by a research university library: but do so partially in my spare time; this is not ideal.
Software - OJS (Open Journal Systems) is a good, free and evolving platform.-ScholarOneManuscript is to be avoided – annoying, expensive, automated, passwords, impersonal.
multimedia articles allowed of course.
Since urban cycling is the booming area, that could be the hook. eg “Journal of Urban Cycling” or “Journal of Cycling and Society”. Wide citation of articles would be needed early to establish reputation, otherwise academics won’t send in papers.
I’m in. Any takers? Of course if anybody takes this up and leaves me out, that would not be very polite!
Dr. Simon Batterbury | Associate Professor| Dept. of Resource Management and Geography | 221 Bouverie St (rm L2.33) | University of Melbourne, 3010 VIC, Australia.
+61 (0)3 8344 9319 | simonpjb @ unimelb.edu.au | http://www.simonbatterbury.net<http://www.simonbatterbury.net/> |
From: Cycling and Society Research Group discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Arnoud Lagendijk
Sent: Wednesday, 5 February 2014 8:23 AM
To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Inventory of senior cycling scholars
Dear list members,
For various purposes, we are seeking to develop a list of senior scholars with an established track record in cycling research. We would like to base this list on the shared knowledge of the bicycle research community. Hence, we call on all of you to suggest names of the most prominent bicycle researchers. We have started our list with one who can certainly not be missed:
Prof. John Pucher, Rutgers University
More names are welcome!
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