Why do women cycle less than men? Can this gender-cycling gap be linked to characteristics of the urban environment? How can policymakers help to make it more women-friendly? AliBattiston explores these issues in this On Physical Sciences blog post.
In the last decades, the number of cyclists in western cities has significantly risen. However, the typical cyclist riding around European and North American cities is still a young man.
In the article “Revealing the determinants of gender inequality in urban cycling with large-scale data”, we study the strength of association between cycling uptake by women – measured through data from the sport-tracking application Strava – and several characteristics of western cities, both at a macro and microscopic level.
This result is not limited to the city of New York but generalizes to the vast majority of the cities in our sample. In this spirit, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals indicate cycling as one of the pillars of a sustainable urban-mobility system and interventions targeted at increasing the number of cyclists are recommended as one of the solutions against traffic congestion, increased emissions, and poor air quality.
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