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Urban bicycling: its impact on health and its coexistence with other means of urban transport
This study, complementing a second study on bicycling in the city of Saint-Étienne carried out from July to December 2014, is a reflection on the concept of the bike-friendly city meant to be an urban model allowing for all means of transport. Seeking to explain the infrequent use of the bicycle in town thanks to this concept developed principally by the French researcher Frédéric Héran, the reflections here-in presented focus specifically on the situation in Saint-Étienne, where cyclists are few in number but represent the same socio-professional categories as in most large French towns: young, active and highly educated.
While the conclusions tend to demonstrate the importance of establishing a bike-friendly urban policy to encourage urban bike use, they also demonstrate the necessity for greater reflection on the link between Saint-Étienne’s centrifugal residential trips and its daily trips, postulating that by seeking to solve the problem of the city centre’s impoverishment caused by the middle classes moving to the suburbs, one would at the same time increase urban bike use, not only by shortening urban trip distances, but also by welcoming more potential bicyclists into the city centre. The general idea engendered by this reflection is that the veritable bicycle-reliant town is one that implements not only an appropriate mobility offer, but also an urban offer on a par with the urban competition that forces today’s larger towns to demonstrate their greater attractiveness so as to welcome new investments and new wealthier inhabitants paying higher taxes.
CSO
Ocivélo
Représentant : M. Florent MISSEMER, & Mme Natacha GONDRAN
Représentant : M. Florent MISSEMER, & Mme Natacha GONDRAN
student
M. Pierre Chanel HOUNWANOU – Master 1 Altervilles (Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne)
researcher
Academic tutor :
Mme Christèle MOREL-JOURNEL - responsable de la formation Altervilles (Université de Saint-Etienne)
Scientific supervisor :
M. Jean-Pierre NICOLAS, Chargé de recherche CNRS – Laboratoire d’Economie des Transports (LET) / labex IMU
Mme Christèle MOREL-JOURNEL - responsable de la formation Altervilles (Université de Saint-Etienne)
Scientific supervisor :
M. Jean-Pierre NICOLAS, Chargé de recherche CNRS – Laboratoire d’Economie des Transports (LET) / labex IMU