Cycling Beyond Your Sixties: The Role of Cycling in Later Life and How It Can Be Supported and Promoted
Transport, Travel and Later Life
ISBN: 978-1-78714-624-2, eISBN: 978-1-78714-623-5
Publication date: 1 December 2017
Abstract
Decision makers and authorities largely ignore cycling when conceptualising and developing programmes to support older mobility and therefore, unsurprisingly, levels of cycling in the United Kingdom are low compared to other northern European nations. Cycling has the potential to play an important role in the active ageing agenda and provide older citizens with a form of independent mobility that enhances personal health and wellbeing. The chapter provides evidence of the important role cycling does and could play in older people’s mobility and outlines ways in which older cycling could be supported and promoted.
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Acknowledgments
We would like to acknowledge the contributions of the cycle BOOM team and our funding support.
cycle BOOM was led by Dr. Tim Jones, Reader in Urban Mobility, at Oxford Brookes University supported by Dr. Ben Spencer and Nick Beale; working in collaboration with Dr. Kiron Chatterjee and Dr. Heather Jones at the University of West of England; Dr. Justin Spinney; Dr. Carl Mann and Shaun Williams at Cardiff University; Prof. Carien van Reekum, Dr. Emma Street and Dr. Louise Leyland at the University of Reading. Cycle BOOM was funded under the UK Research Council’s Life-Long Health and Wellbeing programme (Grant No. EP/K037242/1). http://www.cycleboom.org.
Citation
Jones, T., Chatterjee, K., Spencer, B. and Jones, H. (2017), "Cycling Beyond Your Sixties: The Role of Cycling in Later Life and How It Can Be Supported and Promoted", Musselwhite, C. (Ed.) Transport, Travel and Later Life (Transport and Sustainability, Vol. 10), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 139-160. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2044-994120170000010013
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