@article{ref1,
title="Recreational bicycling as a "gateway" to utility bicycling: the case of Charlotte, NC",
journal="International journal of sustainable transportation",
year="2018",
author="Boyer, Robert H. W.",
volume="12",
number="6",
pages="407-415",
abstract="Riding a bicycle for utility purposes in US cities is rare, especially in historically automobile-dominated cities. Using data from a transportation survey administered to 406 residents of Charlotte, NC, this paper reports on the results of a logistic regression model that predicts the influence of an individual's recreational cycling frequency on the odds of that individual riding a bicycle for utility purposes on a weekly basis. The odds of an individual riding for utility purposes at least once a week increases dramatically as an individual rides more for recreation. Recreational cycling appears to offer a space in which individuals can acquire a threshold level of skills and materials necessary to ride their bike for utility purposes. <br><br>RESULTS suggest that plans to increase utility cycling in an automobile-dominated city like Charlotte ought to emphasize and fund opportunities for residents to ride recreationally, and consider how experience riding a bike in the temporally- and spatially- flexible context of recreation can encourage more individuals to ride to and from errands, school, or their place of work.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1556-8318",
doi="10.1080/15568318.2017.1382622",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15568318.2017.1382622"
}