The unequal cycling boom in Germany

Hudde, Ansgar

doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2021.103244

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“…It should be mentioned that exactly these two countries, Germany and Austria, are leading when it comes to sports and recreational tourism, travelling by bicycle, staying in rural areas and leading a healthy lifestyle. (Nicoletta, Servidio, 2012;Hudde, 2021). Referring the data from table 5, it can be concluded that there are no statistically significant difference in participants' responses depending on the country they come from, since p=0.300.…”

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Dry spa as a factor of rural destination development

Zečević¹,

Vujko²,

Nedeljković³

2022

Ekonomika poljoprivrede

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If we look at the energy as something that is all around us, then it is clear that energy as such can be used even for the purpose of tourism. Sofia's springs is the dry spa which is located in the national park and the fields with the strongest positive radiation in the world are the phenomenon. Whether this is a placebo effect or a real effect of bio energy circles, this location has the potential to attract "health tourists" from all over the world. The research took the whole 7 years, during which we analyzed motives and views of 687 foreign visitors of these springs who came to the springs by bicycles from 6 European countries. The analysis showed that the visitors believe that the dry spa helps them in solving health problems, including Covid-19, which invites medical science to examine it in detail and confirm or reject it. Anyways, that represents a backbone of health tourism development and can directly influence the rural destination development.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 87%

Dry spa as a factor of rural destination development

Zečević¹,

Vujko²,

Nedeljković³

2022

Ekonomika poljoprivrede

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“…Cycling patterns strongly differ between rural and urban areas, and it is mainly cities that have seen relevant increases in cycling recently (Hudde, 2021). I therefore focus on individuals living in cities with at least 50,000 inhabitants.…”

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“…People with lower education might particularly benefit from this means of transport, as they have, on average, lower incomes and poorer health (Hendi, 2017; Mäki et al, 2013; Zajacova et al, 2021). However, bivariate analyses conducted in Germany show that people with lower education use bicycles considerably less than people with higher education, and that this gap is growing (Hudde, 2021; Nobis, 2019).…”

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Educational Differences in Cycling: Evidence from German Cities

Hudde

2022

Sociology

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Cycling is an environmentally sustainable social practice that contributes to liveable cities and provides affordable and healthy transport. People with lower education could particularly benefit from cycling, as they tend to fare worse regarding finances and health. However, in bivariate analyses, those with lower education cycle less. This article discusses the social meaning of cycling and investigates whether the education–cycling association holds after accounting for (1) confounders and (2) factors that determine decision leeway between different transport modes. I analyse approximately 80,000 short-distance trips (0.5–7.5 km) reported by 28,000 working-age individuals from cities in Germany using multilevel linear probability regression models. Results support that higher education systematically and substantially increases the propensity to cycle. This education gap implies major untapped potential for environmental sustainability, that current pro-cycling policies in cities disproportionally favour the highly educated and that cycling patterns contribute to inequalities in finances and health.

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“…A study by Lanzendorf et al [ 38 ] based on the MiD's trips dataset for 2002 and 2008 also found that the number of daily trips made by bicycle had increased in the metropolitan areas of Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Munich. In a similar vein, Hudde [ 39 ] reported that bicycle use increased in Germany between 1996 and 2018, but also noted that this “cycling boom” was largely among higher educated individuals in medium-sized and large cities [ 39 ]. The analysis, which was based on the German Mobility Panel (MOP), showed that in 2018, highly educated individuals in medium-sized and large cities used bicycles on average for more minutes than lower educated individuals.…”

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Less car, more bicycle? Generation Y as pioneers of changing everyday mobility in Germany

Konietzka

Neugebauer

2023

Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.

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Background The paper examines whether the widespread assumption holds that younger birth cohorts (referred to as Millennials or Generation Y) act as pioneers of changing everyday mobility. Methodology Based on the time-series dataset "Mobility in Germany" (Mobilität in Deutschland), cohort-specific changes in everyday bicycle and car use that have occurred between 2002 and 2017 are analyzed. The empirical analyses are differentiated by age-group and settlement type. Additionally, socio-structural factors are taken into account. Results The results show a decline in the predominant everyday use of cars in metropolitan cities, especially among Generation Y. However, the Millennials do not emerge as pioneers of the trend toward predominant bicycle use. The results challenge the assumption that changes in everyday mobility are essentially driven by generational change.

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The unequal cycling boom in Germany

Cited by 22 publications

References 47 publications

Dry spa as a factor of rural destination development

Dry spa as a factor of rural destination development

Educational Differences in Cycling: Evidence from German Cities

Less car, more bicycle? Generation Y as pioneers of changing everyday mobility in Germany

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