Active Transportation Safety and Road Traffic Injury in British Columbia
This report was prepared for decision makers and policy makers in the provincial government to support goals of increasing active transportation while striving for Vision Zero. It uses linked datasets encompassing insurance claims, police reports, hospital admissions, and sociodemographic information to describe changes in road traffic injury rates over time, identify population groups with higher rates, and discern factors that influence injury severity.
Aug 31, 2023
Estimating walking and bicycling in Canada and their road collision fatality risks: The need for a national household travel survey
Canadian Community Health Survey captures more bicycling/walking than the census. Across data sources, walking more common among women than men. Men had higher risk of a fatality than women for bicycling and walking. Both data sources have key limitations for measuring bicycling and walking. Implementing a national household travel survey should be a priority in Canada.
Jun 1, 2021
Who Bikes? An Assessment of Leisure and Commuting Bicycling from the Canadian Community Health Survey
People bicycling for leisure were more likely to be younger, male, higher income, and identify as white. Few bicyclists commuted by bike.
May 1, 2021
The Impact of Implementing Public Bicycle Share Programs on Bicycle Crashes
Data from 8 North American show the odds of reporting a bicycling crash were lower in cities that had existing PBSPs (Boston, Montreal, Toronto).
Sep 2, 2020
Cyclist crash rates and risk factors in a prospective cohort in seven European cities
Data from 7 European cities show higher crash risks for less frequent cyclists, men, those who perceive cycling to not be well regarded in their neighbourhood, and those who live in areas of very high building density.
Jun 1, 2020
Impacts of study design on sample size, participation bias, and outcome measurement: a case study from bicycling research
In our case study we found that measuring bicycling once, resulted in a larger sample with better representation of sociodemographic groups, but different estimates of long-term bicycling behaviour.
Dec 2, 2019
Associations between individual characteristics, availability of bicycle infrastructure, and city-wide safety perceptions of bicycling: a cross-sectional survey of bicyclists in 6 Canadian and U.S. cities
We found bicyclists with greater spatial access to bicycling specific infrastructure had a higher likelihood of perceiving bicycling to be safe.
May 1, 2019
Impacts of Bicycling Infrastructure in Mid-Sized Cities (IBIMS): Protocol for a Natural Experiment Study
Study protocol for assessing impacts of bicycling infrastructure on mid-sized cities.
Jan 18, 2018
Comparing Crowdsourced Near-Miss and Collision Cycling Data and Official Bike Safety Reporting
Crowdsourced collision data have potential to fill in gaps in reports to official collision sources and that crowdsourced near-miss reporting may be influenced by perceptions of risk.
Jan 1, 2017