Citation

Lawson SD. Traffic Eng. Control 2002; 43(11): 414-415.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Hemming Group)

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Abstract

In 2002 the AA repeated its 1992-93 Cycling motorists survey and again examined both the number of British motorists in a sample of 1000 who say that they cycle and the extent to which they choose to forego the car for the bicycle. The results from the two surveys are very similar - about a third of motorists in both surveys say that they cycle, and one in five say that they use a bicycle for utility purposes rather than simply for leisure. However, the results do not provide evidence of the type of large-scale change in behaviour that would be required to meet the government's target of quadrupling cycling trips by 2012 compared with 1996 levels. Indeed among those motorists who cycle, the proportion using the bicycle to go to work or the shops is significantly smaller in the 2002 sample than in 1992-93.