Effectiveness of a bicycle skills training intervention on increasing bicycling and confidence: A longitudinal quasi-experimental study

Sersli, Stephanie; Scott, Nicholas; Winters, Meghan

doi:10.1016/j.jth.2019.100577

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“…A very positive nding of the present study is that the applied training program made signi cant improvements in children's basic cycling skills. This was in accordance with the previous studies that showed that training programs made signi cant improvements in primary school children's cycling skills [12,18,19,32]. The results of the presented study show that improvement is obvious in as many as fourteen out of the fteen observed different cycling skills.…”

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“…Previous studies were dealing with effects of children's cycling education programs and their in uence on the change of knowledge, skills, attitudes, safety awareness and increasing cycling frequency and con dence, as well as decrease of share in the crashes or injures rate [13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. Cycling education programs in many countries in the world are implemented within curricular activities, as "The New Jersey Bike School program" from the USA [17], "Bike It" from the UK [20], "Miami BikeSafe" from the USA [16], "Safe Cycle" from Australia [14], "South Dunedin Cycling Project" from New Zealand [21].…”

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“…Through analysis of the developed and applied cycling education programs and trainings, numerous differences in curriculum content, training duration, monitoring of knowledge after the training have been noticed [12], as well as in the population of children they target, in terms of age [13,18,22], gender, sociodemographic status, content of training (improvement of knowledge, skills, behaviour) [23], living areas and space where the training was conducted (tra c free environment or summer camp that included an on road component) [17,21]. Besides, there are obvious differences in the evaluation of training results (improvement was noticed or there was no change) [18,19]. Evaluation of most cycling safety education programs was related to their effects on skills and knowledge, and improvement was noticed in most cases [24].…”

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“…Because of this, it is very important to develop and implement training programs for younger school children who do not have the knowledge and experience to deal with numerous tasks they encounter in tra c on a daily basis [12]. If we look at the existing cycling programs in different part of the world, they are mostly directed towards older school children, from grades 4 to 8 (10 to 14 years) and adolescents [18,21,23,27].…”

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An Implementation of A Cycling Safety Education Program Among School Children Without Previous Formal Cycling Training: A Case Study in Serbia

Bačkalić¹,

Stanojević²,

Jovanović³

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Background: The promotion of cycling as a healthy and socio-economically acceptable way of moving has led to a significant increase in these road users. Moreover, the indisputable fact is that children cyclists belong to the group of the vulnerable road users. All this clearly indicates that cycling education programs for children are the only correct approach. The primary goal of the presented research are inception and implementation of a cycling safety education program for school-age children without formal cycling knowledge and skills. Methods: Students from the 4th grade (9 and 10 years old) from nine randomly schools on the territory of the Republic of Serbia participated in a survey. In order to measure and evaluate the knowledge and skills, the students were put through testing before and after the cycling safety education program. Data were analysed using repeated multivariate analysis of variance test.Results: Comparing the intervention group and the control group before and after the training program implementation, children’s total cycling knowledge increased in the intervention group. The cycling education program improved children's knowledge of road signs, age requirements, and risky behaviours. The results show that the cycling education program achieved significant improvements in all tested children's cycling skills. However, it was noticed that there was no significant intervention effect between control and intervention group in terms of the bicycle checking before riding.Conclusions: The current research, as a pilot study, provides evidence that cycling education programs might be effective in improving cycling-related knowledge and cycling skills among children. Future efforts should be directed towards promotion and implementation of cycling safety education programs in elementary schools where there is no formal cycling training for children on traffic safety, as well as towards monitoring of long-term effects of cycling training.

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An Implementation of A Cycling Safety Education Program Among School Children Without Previous Formal Cycling Training: A Case Study in Serbia

Bačkalić¹,

Stanojević²,

Jovanović³

et al. 2020

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“…An older study of traffic-free cycle routes had concluded that providing infrastructure is not sufficient by itself to increase cycling for travel (Jones, 2012), so it is perhaps the existence of facilities at every stage of the journey from home to an employee's desk or factory floor that is important. Another study reports that a short training session (2-4.5h) in Vancouver increased cycling for all purposes in the short-term but did not increase cycling for travel in the longer term (Sersli et al, 2019). The authors compare their findings with other studies where cycle training was effective (Johnson and Margolis, 2013) and discuss possible explanations.…”

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Cycling, driving, and injuries

Mindell¹

2019

Journal of Transport & Health

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Broadening the range of people who cycleIn the 1960s, Dutch cities were increasingly car-focussed. Cycle trip share in Amsterdam fell from 80% in 1950s to 20% in the 1970s (van der Zee, 2015. Child traffic deaths were the catalyst to reduce car use and promote cycling (Wardlaw, 2014). Road travel deaths peaked in 1971 at 3,300, of whom more than 400 were children (van der Zee, 2015). Campaigners pioneered street closure days to allow children to play in the streets. Eventually, the 'woonerf' [homezone] was developed, followed by car-free Sundays. Nowadays, there are extensive networks of segregated cycle paths; more than a quarter of trips in the Netherlands are cycled, and almost two-fifths of trips in Amsterdam. However, in other countries, such as New Zealand, opposition to cycle lanes can be very vocal, particularly from local businesses (Field et al., 2018). We know that cyclists, like pedestrians, visit local businesses more frequently and, over a period of time, spend more money locally than drivers do (Mindell, 2015). A recent study has shown that increased cycling is associated with new businesses opening (Klemmer et al., 2018).

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