@article{ref1,
title="Supplemental infrastructure: how community networks and immigrant identity influence cycling",
journal="Transportation",
year="2020",
author="Barajas, Jesus M.",
volume="47",
number="3",
pages="1251-1274",
abstract="While factors such as urban form, infrastructure, and attitudes shape cycling behavior, the experience of cycling can vary drastically across socioeconomic and identity groups. For foreign-born residents of the United States, additional factors associated with income and cultural context may influence cycling. In this study, I ask how factors associated with being an immigrant, such as economic status, cultural habits, residential location, and social environments, motivate or deter cycling. <br><br>RESULTS are based on 23 in-depth interviews with low-income Latino immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area. Interviews reveal that close-knit social networks buoyed by support from immigrant-serving organizations encourage cycling, providing social infrastructure where other types of infrastructure may be absent. However, neighborhood safety is a significant deterrent that men and women respond to in different ways. Other effects, such as gentrification, immigrant experiences, and cultural narratives, shape individuals' perceptions of belonging as a cyclist in their neighborhood. <br><br>FINDINGS suggest that planners should collaborate with immigrant-serving community organizations and be more centrally involved in addressing neighborhood conditions and their effects on travel.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0049-4488",
doi="10.1007/s11116-018-9955-7",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11116-018-9955-7"
}