Suggested reading material and additional material
Top recommended reading
- Academic paper that looks at Seville’s success, how it planned and spent, as well as the laid out its cycle network.
- TfL research on international best practice in cycling infrastructure. Considers the legality of different interventions in a UK policy context.
- Danish cycling embassy, good resource to see Danish suggested best practice.
- Latest Rapid Evidence review from DfT, more succinct than the prior report.
- Evidence review on the barriers to investing in cycling in England.
Ancillary reading
- Rapid Evidence review for DfT, asks and tries to answer a range of questions:
- RQ1 What are the range of different interventions that can be used to impact on walking and cycling and how much do they cost?
- RQ2 How effective are different interventions?
- RQ3 How can we most effectively target cycling and walking interventions?
- RQ4 Where do new or extended cycling and walking trips come from?
- RQ5 What impact can cycling and walking investment have on physical activity and health, and the associated costs of this?
- RQ6 What are positive and/or negative local economic impacts of cycling and walking interventions?
- UK Cycling embassy, qualitative research on residents opinions.
- DfT guidance laying out how to make an economic case for cycling infrastructure.
- TfL report which looks to calculate the maximum possible modal shift given current travel patterns, which would give an idea on the possible uptake in certain locations.
- TfL report showing the cyclical trend in cycling in London, important to note when consider pre and post evaluations.
- Gives an in depth report on the Sustainable Travel Towns in England, their spending and breakdowns thereof, as well as the results and other useful metrics.
- Academic report for DfT on the best framework to evaluate cycling projects, suggests a figure of between £1-4 million for evaluations depending on size and level of robustness for a comprehensive evaluation.
- Academic paper on the Mini-Hollands in London boroughs, still very early on in the project so more to watch the space.
- Norwegian Cycling report by their transport authority. Looks at towns, trends and modal levels. Useful if considering Norway or certain Norwegian towns as comparison cities for Scotland.