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. 2018 Aug;126(8):82001.
doi: 10.1289/EHP3754.

Active Travel for All? The Surge in Public Bike-Sharing Programs

Charles Schmidt

Active Travel for All? The Surge in Public Bike-Sharing Programs

Charles Schmidt. Environ Health Perspect. 2018 Aug.
No abstract available

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Photograph of bicyclists riding across Tilikum Crossing in Seattle.
Many cities are exploring ways to increase rates of active travel by making it easier for people to walk or bike where they need to go. In Seattle, Washington, the Tilikum Crossing bridge was designed as a car-free route across the Willamette River. The bridge has special lanes for pedestrians and cyclists, and only mass transit and emergency vehicles are allowed to drive across. Image: Tedder/CC BY-SA 4.0.
Adjacent photographs of bikes at a docking station and a man unlocking a dockless bike.
(top) Docked bicycles are rented from and returned to docking stations equipped with electronic payment kiosks. (bottom) Dockless bikes can be picked up and left anywhere in the city. Riders simply use a cell phone app to unlock the bikes. Images, top to bottom: © anystock/Shutterstock, EHP.
Adjacent photographs of a U.S. curb cluttered with bikes and hundreds of shared bikes piled in a Chinese dump.
(top) Bike-share companies are supposed to periodically rebalance their fleets to ensure bikes do not end up littering streets. However, sometimes city streets end up cluttered with bikes for longer than residents, pedestrians, and public officials might like. (bottom) In China, older bikes with outdated technology accumulate in huge piles around the country. Images, top to bottom: EHP, © VCG/Getty Images.
Photograph of a participant in the study by Steven Chillrud and Darby Jack, wearing a biometric shirt and monitoring harness.
Researchers Steven Chillrud and Darby Jack fitted study participants with equipment to assess how biking near traffic affects cardiovascular indicators. The black biometric shirt has sensors that measure heart rate, heart rate variability, and respiration. The blue harness holds monitors to measure exposures to black carbon and PM2.5. Image: © Masih Babagoli.
Photograph of Steve Hankey’s bicycle hitched to a mobile air sampler.
Investigator Steve Hankey rode his bike throughout Minneapolis, pulling a mobile air sampler behind him. The sampling data yielded a block-by-block picture of spots where cyclists and pedestrians are likely to encounter the lowest and highest levels of air pollution. Image: © Steve Hankey.
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