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Title: Tracking global bicycle ownership patterns
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Publication Year: 2015
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Abstract: Over the past four decades, bicycle ownership has been documented in various countries but not globallyanalyzed. This paper presents an effort tofill this gap by tracking household bicycle possession. First, wegather survey data from 150 countries and extract percentage household bicycle ownership values.Performing cluster analysis, we determined four groups with the weighted mean percentage ownershipranging from 20% to 81%. Generally, bicycle ownership was highest in Northern Europe and lowest inWest, Central and North Africa, and Central Asia. We determine worldwide household ownership pat-terns and demonstrate a basis for understanding the global impact of cycling as a sustainable transitmode. Furthermore, wefind a lower-bound estimate of the number of bicycles available to the world'shouseholds. We establish that at the global level 42% of households own at least one bicycle, and thusthere are at least 580 million bicycles in private household ownership. Our data are publicly available andamenable for future analyses.
Url: https://studylib.net/doc/8244576/tracking-global-bicycle-ownership-patterns
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Authors: Oke, Olufolajimi; Bhalla, Kavi; Love, David C.; Siddiqui, Sauleh
Periodical (Full): Jounral of Transport and Health
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Pages: 1-12
Data Collections: IPUMS International
Topics: Other
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