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Bike-share cycling safer says research

  • 13-01-2016 5:54pm
    #1
    tomasrojo
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    Global bike share: What the data tells us about road safety
    Study 1 indicated that the introduction of a bike share system was associated with a reduction in cycling injury risk. Study 2 found that bike share users were less likely than other cyclists to sustain fatal or severe injuries.
    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022437515001024

    Seen it hinted at in other research, usually about sit-up bikes being safer than drop-bar bikes. Not sure that's the reason at all, even if the difference in safety outcomes is real.

    (Couldn't find a recent bike-share thread to put this in, so made a new one.)


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  • #2
    tomasrojo
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    More about how safe bike-share is:
    www.citylab.com/commute/2016/04/why-bike-share-is-really-very-safe/476316/

    Some helmet-thread-worthy assertions in there.

    Also, not sure whether they've tried to calculate risk of non-bike-share cycling while omitting under-14s, rural cyclists and sports cyclists. Given that bike-share cycling by its nature omits these categories (as they allude to a bit in that article), it might account for most of the difference in risk profile.


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