Welcome to the Women Cycling Project!
Hosted by Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (APBP), the goal of the Women Cycling Project is to learn together. By connecting and collaborating with others, you can help create a more sustainable transportation culture.
It's been said we will know we have made progress when it is commonplace to see women and girls bicycling for transport in numbers equal to men and boys.
Announcements:
March 30, 2011, 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Free webinar: Women can Change the World through Cycling! The webinar features 1-minute stories of some of the wonderful women leading the cycling movement, and results of APBP's 2010 survey on Women Cycling. Winners of the APBP Women Cycling Photo & Video Contest will be announced. Register here.
Why a Women Cycling Project? The idea for the Women Cycling Project and APBP's public group on this topic arose from conversations about findings and implementation recommendations contained in the FHWA, AASHTO, NCHRP International Scan on Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety and Mobility. (Read that report here.) APBP invites further discussion, examples, and new approaches about what policy makers, engineers, planners, public health and other professionals may need to do differently to encourage more women and girls in the U.S. and Canada to bicycle for everyday transport. Use this group space to share information about resources, barriers, and successes. Visit the forum for links to reports, questions, answers and more opportunities to share your ideas about solutions.
View the recording of the March 31, 2010 webinar, Writing Women Back Into Bicycling, here. The recording is approximately 90 minutes. You may access the recording multiple times, although it may not be downloaded.
Women responded! Learn how more than 13,000 women responded to the Survey on Women Cycling for Transportation. APBP member Mark Schulz (Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Education, University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and his student Anna Sibley analyzed the APBP survey. Read it here.
APBP member and then-intern Andrea Garland (now with Alta Planning + Design) analyzed thousands of written answers to three open ended questions,
- "What would cause you to start or increase your cycling?"
- "Why do you use your bicycle for trips?"
- "What reaction do you get when cycling for transportation?"
Her summaries will be posted after the 3/30/11 webinar. Additional questions will be digested as time and APBP resources permit. Researchers who would like to use the data for further study may contact us. Of interest to Safe Routes to School professionals: respondent's 12,996 written answers to questions about what their communities can do to encourage more teen girls and young girls to bicycle for transport.
APBP to Announce Winners of the Women Cycling Photo & Video Contest on March 30, 2011
Images help form ideas and transform culture and can contribute to an ongoing dialogue. Many professionals, advocates, and elected officials use photos from free online photo libraries to flesh out their presentations. APBP has identified a need for more images of women and girls cycling as part of everyday life. APBP is collaborating with our partners at the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to help fill this void. APBP encourages you to contribute your photo to the PBIC image library (follow the directions found here to upload your images to www.pedbikeimages.org).
Submit a photo: http://www.pedbikeimages.org/
Submit a video: http://www.walkinginfo.org/videos/
Prizes (Contest Closed)
1st prize: One year of APBP monthly webinars (valued at $600.00 to $900.00)
2nd prize: One registration fee to 2011 APBP Professional Development Seminar in Charlotte, North Carolina, October 23-27 (valued at approximately $350.00; travel, lodging and other expenses are the responsibility of the winner)
3rd prize: One APBP membership (valued at $95.00)
4th prize: One APBP webinar (valued at $50.00 to $75.00)
Please share what you've learned here with others in your community who are working to make it more bicycle-friendly, and more walkable. Thank you!
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